Example sentences of "[vb past] i [adv prt] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He rang me up that same evening and asked me out for a drink . ’ |
| 2 | The sound of a running stream invited me over to a bridge . |
| 3 | One memorable day I wandered along to a municipal course and sat waiting while they fixed me up with a fourball . |
| 4 | The concussion of the exploding wave drove me down like a steam hammer . |
| 5 | ‘ They trussed me up in a skip and left me under the showers . |
| 6 | They grabbed my arms and swung me over to a mat lying at the side then undid the strap around my ankles . |
| 7 | ‘ I was in the canteen on Wednesday when the manager called me in about a passenger on my bus , ’ said Mr Bell . |
| 8 | And er Betty called me in for a cup of coffee but and I was there , I think , for over two hours . |
| 9 | Someone rang me up on a phone-in programme , and he said ‘ I read your book , I think it 's absolutely disgusting . ’ |
| 10 | After askin ’ how everything was doing back home , he waved me through with a laugh . |
| 11 | ‘ He shoved me on to a toilet seat and punched me , ’ Claire said . |
| 12 | His reaction to my essay , on the other hand , brought me up with a jolt ; and although what I had written is of no interest — I seem to have lost the manuscript , so that is the end of the matter — I carne to value his negative appraisals . |
| 13 | Reading the submission of the Ulster Unionist party brought me back to a comment made by the right hon. Member for Lagan Valley ( Mr. Molyneaux ) , the leader of the Ulster Unionist party , during the first sitting of the Northern Ireland Committee on 13 June . |
| 14 | She looked kind of disgusted and then , like , eased me back into a chair . |
| 15 | When I was a schoolgirl some friends took me on to a farm and I used to watch the milking and think what a grand life it was , so healthy , not at all like life in the pits and the factories . |
| 16 | They took me along to a service at the North Shore Christian Fellowship on the Sunday after the Night of the Great North Wind . |
| 17 | She caught up with me and took me along to a paddock to see her horse . |
| 18 | Harvey took me out to a sauna club he belonged to . |
| 19 | He put me up in a hostel , but it was filthy and I … , |
| 20 | ‘ He put me out in a field inside a small enclosure . |
| 21 | Do you mean that that bloody fool Hector McGillivray fobbed me off with a boat that 's — that 's been- ? ’ |
| 22 | Azar called me over and with a flourish sat me down on a plastic deckchair at the front of the ring of spectators . |