Example sentences of "[vb pp] i [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But JUSt as it IS proper for me to look back to my wedding day as assurance that I am really married , so it is proper to look back to my baptism as a mark given me by the Holy Spirit that I am really born again in Christ , and to the eucharist as a pledge that I do partake of his life , feed on him , and shall in the last day share his resurrection . |
| 2 | He has educated me in the best sense of the word and I have trusted him as I think I would trust no one else of my own sex . |
| 3 | Last time I had been to Paris they had rescued me from the freezing streets and hungry wolf packs . ) |
| 4 | ‘ I rang the airport straight away — they 've booked me on the first flight out . |
| 5 | It was nearly forty years later that I met the man who had carried me into the only half track we had left and who reassured me . |
| 6 | It has carried me from the comfortable Salisbury suburb where a kind Scottish family have made me a home , to a rough Bulawayo farmstead . |
| 7 | He could have dropped me off the first time ! |
| 8 | It has n't prepared me for the outside world ; all it 's done is given me an awareness of myself . |
| 9 | Racks and Torments ! dost think , Child , that my Limbs were made for leaping of Ditches , and clambring over Stiles ; or that my Parents wisely foreseeing my future Happiness in Country-pleasures , had early instructed me in the rural Accomplishments of drinking fat Ale , playing at Whisk , and smoaking Tobacco with my Husband ; or of spreading of Plaisters , brewing of Diet-drinks , and stilling Rosemary-Water with the good old Gentlewoman , my Mother-in-Law … . |
| 10 | Throughout the whole ghastly hour , I thought with gratitude of the boring school routines and the strict schoolmasters who have made me into the psychological oddity which I am today . |
| 11 | I 'd been walking for 45 minutes when I was hailed by a local farmer who had seen me on the moonlit road . |
| 12 | You have n't seen me since the bad time with the lawyers . ’ |
| 13 | I only wish Daddy could have seen me in the black lace dress . |
| 14 | Your good influence and help has sometimes drawn me from the enwrapping pleasure of scenes which before held me alone with them … |
| 15 | ‘ Is n't that why you 've avoided me like the very plague ever since I 've been here ? ’ |
| 16 | You 've got me on the touhgest part of the course and I 'm quite out of breath . |
| 17 | ‘ Ah yes , ’ Leon turned to Mrs Yaxlee , ‘ your George has told me of the great days . |
| 18 | Someone should have told me about the local MIND and the National Schizophrenia Fellowship and what they could offer . |
| 19 | ‘ I represent about 12 players at Tottenham Hotspur , and they 've all told me in the last couple of days that they certainly will put in for transfers and leave Tottenham Hotspur . ’ |
| 20 | What has frankly surprised me about the last decade is the way in which social scientists who make no claim to a Christian profession have been talking openly about the relevance of religious values to our current economic problems in the Western world . |
| 21 | If he had played me at the same age he 'd have given me three blacks start and a beating . |
| 22 | ‘ It 's worse for them because they blame themselves for having provided me with the financial means to take a plebeian job . ’ |
| 23 | And it was indescribably eerie — so that I almost began to wonder if Posi had brought me to the right planet . |
| 24 | And yeah , they 've gone and re-credited me for the fifteen pound ! |
| 25 | As for their laying the birch on my pocket , I compute that my support of Lewis and Brzeska has cost me at the lowest estimate about £20 per year , from one source alone since that regrettable occurrence , since I dared to discern a great sculptor and a great painter in the midst of England 's artistic desolaton . |
| 26 | Erm , well I do n't know Wendy , I 'll have to go into that when I , I do n't think they have , I do n't know that they have charged me for , well they 've certainly charged me for the new wiring . |
| 27 | I 'd been hurt — the man I thought loved me had not only jilted me and stolen my money , but admitted that he had n't wanted me in the first place . |
| 28 | The leaders of the main parties and the Darlington candidates have left me with the following impressions . |
| 29 | We always said that someone at the office called Jenkins had taken me to the local wine bar after work and we 'd run into some old girlfriend of his and Gillian who knew this girl vaguely was with her and we sort of got on immediately and made another date . |
| 30 | He reported success with Yellow-root ( i.e. Hydrastis canadensis ) as it had ‘ flowered and ripened seeds in our garden , two years past , from some roots which were sent me from the inland parts of your country . |