Example sentences of "i [verb] [prep] the [noun] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were both trying to persuade me to continue with the radiotherapy and drugs . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ But both Graham and I knew it was impractical for me to continue in the job and remain as manager of Exeter . ’ |
| 3 | Okay , suppose Come Up And See Me goes in the charts and they ring you up and say , ‘ Steve , how do you fancy going on Top Of The Pops ? ’ |
| 4 | They 're telling me to go on the stage and act , but I ca n't do it , it 's the one thing Mum and Dad are dead set against . ’ |
| 5 | He advised me to go to the Academy and work with Professor Dachauer . |
| 6 | Well we went off and got off at Peel which was the other with the all bandaged up and she said the chemist advised me to go to the police and er so she said that 's why I 've been a long time because I 've been to the police and reported it . |
| 7 | He said it 's happened before and he advised her to go to the police and er so he , he said er when and the police st told her , when you come back we 'll have all this typed out i and she came back all with a flask all bandaged up and she said the chemist advised me to go to the police and er so she said that 's why I 've been a long time , because I 've been to the police and reported it . |
| 8 | He wanted me to go round the block and park the car about fifty metres short of the hotel . |
| 9 | I 'd say oh yes , you know but , still could n't get me to go in the Guild and er , it was so strange that the , I ca n't remember , I think I 've been in the Guild about twenty-five years so you 'll have to do your own little sum . |
| 10 | Indeed , it was his example that led me to see beneath the brilliance and beauty of Paris , where the plight of its dispossessed is mirrored in the experience of the very people — artists and intellectuals — who are responsible for its reputation . |
| 11 | He waves me to sit in the chair and I do , yawning . |
| 12 | Permit me to rap on the table and murmur ‘ Pass ! ’ |
| 13 | Would you wish me to write to the Council and ask them what 's going on ? |
| 14 | ‘ This woman told me to come to the church and do some healing . ’ |
| 15 | If you let me know at the meeting and . |
| 16 | ‘ If I want to cry , I hide in the toilet and feel desperate ’ , was a common reaction if I asked someone where she cried . |
| 17 | That is why I side with the scientists and the Fundamentalists of Arkansas against the fake liberals . |
| 18 | I asked about the baby and she looked at me as if I should know . ’ |
| 19 | I applied for the post and was interviewed by the headmaster , a man of about my own age who was ‘ mad on Puccini ’ , and consequently thrilled to bits when I recognized |
| 20 | Oh mind , it was quite light , it was n't and I saddled on the path and I did n't , I do n't take chances . |
| 21 | I skidded into the forecourt and ran behind a pump , gasping and belching and feeling my head pound . |
| 22 | I crept up the stairs and stuck my head between the banisters , but the landing was empty . |
| 23 | I crept to the door and , with a sudden movement , opened it wide . |
| 24 | At midnight , when , as the carol says , the animals were on their knees , I crept to the cot and put my pillowcase offering for the little fatherless one . |
| 25 | I crept behind the curtains and looked out . |
| 26 | If , no matter how randomly you threw matter around , the resulting conglomeration could often be said , with hindsight , to be good for something , then it would be true to say that I cheated over the swallow and the whale . |
| 27 | Framsden mill and its environs will illustrate what I mean about the compactness and self-sufficiency of the rural villages in East Anglia . |
| 28 | At that time I lived on the flat and rather featureless coast of East Anglia , and spent most of my spare time sailing its lonely creeks and estuaries . |
| 29 | Well I erm , I was , I was burgled about a year ago and I 'm am ex er , I 'm a retired criminal lawyer , and , but I , I felt that if I lived in the States and trained in the States and I carried a gun then and I felt very vulnerable in not having a gun because he , I was in my own home and he fist me with a knife |
| 30 | and there was a girl on and she said what is a bolster case and when I tried to explain to her she looked at me as if I lived in the ark and that was going back twenty years ago . |