Example sentences of "[vb pp] i [adj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they had never mentioned these despicable attacks to me ; they had kept cheerful faces and shown me all the love and care they had always given me , their prodigal son . |
| 2 | The local force have promised me all the help I need . ’ |
| 3 | I shall tell my husband of your attack on me at Cherry Tree Farm , and how you have pestered me all the years of my marriage . ’ |
| 4 | Your old man here has brought me all the way up here for a complete and utter waste of time |
| 5 | Just as I had fired up the cooker the cat rod that had caused me all the grief earlier was off again . |
| 6 | " She 's left me some money and all her furniture and things , " Sara went on , " but she 's only left me half the house . " |
| 7 | Doris cuddled me on the way to the door but she must have let go for an instant ( perhaps I goosed her too eagerly ) because I went off on a run that would have taken me all the way downtown — further , to the Village , to Martina Twain — if the dessert trolley had n't been there to check my sprint . |
| 8 | The words ‘ The child is father to the man ’ , had haunted me all the morning . |
| 9 | The eccentric bachelor Intrigued me all the time . |