Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] i [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My sins found me out : the pain went , but I was so sick and ill that we had to come home . |
| 2 | The guards threw me out . |
| 3 | I do n't suppose I was more than 10 when the harvesters sent me off to the nearest pub to get some cider in a couple of bottles . |
| 4 | An eery echoing spiralling climb of 168 steps took me up to the light itself and 180 degree views stretching to hazy nothingness to the west and north ; Harris hills to the south-west ; the Cuillins of Skye to the south and the mainland mountains to the east . |
| 5 | The wind and waves pushed me along as I struggled to keep my head above water . |
| 6 | The first thing was when I got there , my parents took me up there and the cow man was just coming back from going in with the cows , and he looked across at me in my sparkling white , new uniform , you know , land army girl sort of standing , ’ Ah , you be my new mate then ! ’ you should have seen my mother 's face ! |
| 7 | Is this what life is for , is this why my parents brought me up with so much love and care ? |
| 8 | ‘ My parents brought me up to — ’ |
| 9 | I was short of a few quid to do anything about it so my mate lent me the money , we went to a scrap yard , picked up a spare and he delivered me back here in his motor , then your chaps picked me up . ’ |
| 10 | Because reading her writings startled me out of my narrow conception of her talent . |
| 11 | The ghosts followed me on and off to Laggan Locks and into a liquid gold evening walk over to Invergarry , to the west of the canal and Loch Oich . |
| 12 | ‘ If I say one of my contacts tipped me off , I expect you 'll pester me for his name . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ All right , then : one of my contacts tipped me off . ’ |
| 14 | To start with Wednesday night one of the customers rang me up |
| 15 | ‘ Disney executives flew me out there and gave me the kind of treatment I 'd always dreamed about when I was an actress … bouquets , champagne , limousines , ’ says Lynda . |
| 16 | The lights were switched on and the harsh familiar outlines of beds , stools and tables forced me back into reality . |
| 17 | I was idling Armstrong outside the National Westminster tower , you know — the building which King Kong would have climbed if he 'd been British , when the cops pulled me in . |
| 18 | A boat returned me to the little coral landing-strip ; Friendly Islands Airways took me down to Tongatapu ; and within half a day I was settled in a small hotel in Auckland , waiting for the weekly Cathay Pacific jet home . |
| 19 | When friends asked me out I had to turn them down and one or two of them stopped calling round . |
| 20 | She came into my mind when a woman in the slums of West Kingston , Jamaica , with a child at her breast and another three hanging around her skirts followed me around for two hours repeating , ‘ Some milk would be better than nothing . ’ |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Friends took me up to have a closer look at it , and I understand the pilot , who was an Australian , managed to bale out and came down safely somewhere near Balder Head . |
| 23 | ‘ I played soccer all the way through school and never entertained the thought of rugby until a couple of friends took me down to Preston Grasshoppers . |
| 24 | A man who was on one of the tours asked me out . |
| 25 | He was late because ‘ the police pulled me in to form part of an identity parade . ’ |
| 26 | Also , the ghosts of the carvers frightened me off . |
| 27 | Well , three nuts spat me out and I can honestly say that the first time I fell , headfirst , facing outwards , above the wall we had just climbed , I really did see stars . |
| 28 | ‘ The Myrcans struck me down . |
| 29 | Cutting that over the numbers had me down and stopped well before the first intersection , a distance of around 400 metres , and I could have done much better if I 'd heaved on the brakes , which are single Goodyear discs with excellent stopping power . |
| 30 | My children egged me on . |