Example sentences of "[to-vb] i [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had visited the apartment at least a dozen times , but I still found the fact of a lift opening directly into a living room incredibly impressive ; a proof of wealth as convincing as the possession of gold taps or of mink rugs or of the girl who waited to greet me just beyond the lift doors . |
| 2 | I picked up my briefcase , started out the door and asked the FBI agent on the case to see me downstairs to a cab because I did n't feel very safe in Chicago . |
| 3 | BELVILLE : Since she is apt to fall into fits or at least pretend to do so , prepare her to see me tomorrow after dinner in my mother 's closet . |
| 4 | Phil , his ever-cheerful self , telling me he has stood up his girlfriend to see me through till the end . |
| 5 | Nobody has come to see me today about that and I think it is disgraceful that the surgery has been disrupted , ’ he said . |
| 6 | ‘ A French officer called to see me yesterday about the Hamnett affair . ’ |
| 7 | Gradually , however , Joe came to see me less as an interloper and increasingly as a friend who happened to share both his home and his mother with him . |
| 8 | Once when I was leaving for Europe , he came to see me off at the airport , bringing a parting gift . |
| 9 | Oh , when she came with the baby and the young girl to see me off at the station , I was unable to speak . |
| 10 | Deemy was on hand next morning at sunrise to see me off aboard one of the transport planes carrying some 40 young pilots en route to Fairbanks . |
| 11 | To see me too in my deliberate vanishing . |
| 12 | Peter first came to see me halfway through the golfing season . |
| 13 | Any matters you wish to see me about between now and the end of August , please bring to my attention this week . |
| 14 | He used to swing me up onto his shoulders and carry me round … ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Are you trying to kill me off by degrees ? ’ |
| 16 | I have the memories of the last time we loved to carry me through to my grave . |
| 17 | Any road , you 'll have to carry me out of here feet first , I reckon . " |
| 18 | I would like to take this opportunity to thank them for their support , and I hope that when my nest book is published they will feel confident enough to treat me just as a novelist and not as a problem . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Knocked on the door , said she 'd come to drive me up to the county ground , had a picnic in the car and she hoped I was ready . ’ |
| 20 | felt too tired to drive me on to ESF 's house , so I got there by bus , or rather by two buses ( an easy change ) , the first starting from about a hundred yards from and the other stopping just behind the Zoo by Primrose Hill and only a few minutes from Eduardo . |
| 21 | I want you to drive me down to the railway station in about half an hour . ’ |
| 22 | " You helped stop me getting the directorship , now you want to drive me out of the Lab . " |
| 23 | He pulled me to my feet , and flung his arms around me and squeezed me as if he wanted to gather me right into himself , never let me go , and we stayed like that for a long time , not speaking , rocking to and fro . |
| 24 | Skipper Kim Barnett tells me : ‘ There was a time when the opposition used to like me out of the way quickly because I had a reputation for getting after the bowling . |
| 25 | The wheelbarrow seemed to want to shake me off like a steer at a rodeo . |
| 26 | ‘ Are you trying to write me out of your life ? ’ |
| 27 | When we got to the airport at Stansted , she 'd even arranged for the Captain to escort me on to the plane . |
| 28 | Suppose I tell them that you want to escort me tonight for personal reasons ? ’ |
| 29 | My wife 's friends in the KGB would be happy to escort me home to Russia . ’ |
| 30 | I went over to Sheridan to ask him to be quiet and he grabbed my wrist and tried to pull me on to his lap , and I overbalanced and fell and hit the table hard where he was sitting , and I caught the cloth somehow and pulled it with me and everything on it landed on the floor . |