Example sentences of "[vb past] i [v-ing] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They found me sitting in the hall , I had to be helped upstairs to bed . ’ |
| 2 | My dad caught me injecting in the bedroom . |
| 3 | But they put their foot down when it came to maths and they caught me grappling with the colour scheme of a kestrel . |
| 4 | ‘ My father , Dewi Morgan taught me shoemaking from the time I was a little girl , ’ she said quickly , almost resentfully , ‘ and I 'm better at the work than many men . ’ |
| 5 | But it was ‘ Tusk ’ that started me thinking along the lines of trying to be true to what I think 's interesting and not necessarily just what people want to hear . ’ |
| 6 | He saw me looking at the picture and said , ‘ Kolwezi , Southern Zaire , 1978 . ’ |
| 7 | Reid saw me looking at the iron bars . |
| 8 | When the doctor saw me sitting beside the boy a puzzled look crossed his face . |
| 9 | I still thought she should be keener , however , so I knocked yet another half an ounce off her flying weight , until she was so eager that she set off towards me virtually the moment she saw me putting on the glove . |
| 10 | ‘ If I saw me coming into the dressing room I 'd have myself kicked out . ’ |
| 11 | A child in a doorway saw me coming through the olives and called , and then the entire population of the tiny hamlet appeared — four women and half a dozen children , unmistakably islanders . |
| 12 | But something kept me sitting at the desk . |
| 13 | 1991 , 27 1042 ) , prompted a childhood memory and sent me rummaging at the top of the house for 300 Things a bright boy can do , a book presented to me by some relative ca 1928 . |
| 14 | The thought sent me dashing to the window slits . |
| 15 | In fact he had me arriving at the scene in a police car with two tones , at , at , at that time we did n't have police cars with two tones , just siren , so they obviously put some sound on it . |
| 16 | November 2nd 1981 had me arriving at the mere on a calm , mild , dull day that saw hardly a ripple on the surface . |
| 17 | Gavin Hills ' ‘ Disco Europa ’ article ( FACE 46 ) had me rolling on the floor with laughter as the memories came flooding back . |
| 18 | It had me rolling on the floor to see Schmeichel blowing his top at the scum defence . |
| 19 | Then he ran out and left me crying on the kitchen floor . |
| 20 | 'E left me roastin' outside the gates while 'e went an' phoned the police , ’ Freddie moaned . |
| 21 | ‘ Stick 'em up , ’ said I spinning around the corner and thrusting the snout of the trusty Smith and Western Railway right up the unsuspecting hooter of Johnny Dee esquire . |
| 22 | This set me thinking on the themes that are expressed in this book . |