Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] i [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I told your chap , the one who came after me up home , 'bout nine that 'd be . |
| 2 | Lyall , who piloted Town to the Second Division Championship in only his second season , said : ‘ Ipswich came to me out of the blue and brought me back into management . |
| 3 | The fever came on me out of nowhere . |
| 4 | He must have sensed that I was looking at him , he suddenly glanced at me out of the corner of his eyes and , still cleaning the mess tin with his finger , he said quietly , ‘ Why are you staring at me like that , Piper ? |
| 5 | Some might call it jealousy I suppose , but it was once my joy to lie between Ma and Pa and listen to the stories of Noah and Jonah which Pa read to me out of the True Book . |
| 6 | I think the mania got to me in about 1966 and around that time I got a bit tired of what they call the adulation . |
| 7 | The snake lifted its head , looked at me out of small , black eyes like stones , flicked its tongue a couple of times , slithered to the edge of the verandah and disappeared . |
| 8 | That — that man had me fired from that very first job , the one you organised for me back in South Africa when I left school ! ’ |
| 9 | And he ran past me out of the room . |
| 10 | Now as you know when we used to do the sums we used to have a little bit of paper and , and work it out on this separate bit of paper , but he said to me out of the blue he said , where did it , how did you get that figure ? |
| 11 | He said to me in , I suppose , 1947 or 1948 : ’ If you enter politics , you will find that in your lifetime the world will become a very small place . |
| 12 | That 's because I told her what they said to me in erm erm |