Example sentences of "[to-vb] i [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Phil , his ever-cheerful self , telling me he has stood up his girlfriend to see me through till the end . |
| 2 | Once when I was leaving for Europe , he came to see me off at the airport , bringing a parting gift . |
| 3 | Oh , when she came with the baby and the young girl to see me off at the station , I was unable to speak . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Any matters you wish to see me about between now and the end of August , please bring to my attention this week . |
| 6 | He used to swing me up onto his shoulders and carry me round … ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Are you trying to kill me off by degrees ? ’ |
| 8 | I have the memories of the last time we loved to carry me through to my grave . |
| 9 | Any road , you 'll have to carry me out of here feet first , I reckon . " |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I want you to drive me down to the railway station in about half an hour . ’ |
| 13 | " You helped stop me getting the directorship , now you want to drive me out of the Lab . " |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The wheelbarrow seemed to want to shake me off like a steer at a rodeo . |
| 16 | ‘ Are you trying to write me out of your life ? ’ |
| 17 | When we got to the airport at Stansted , she 'd even arranged for the Captain to escort me on to the plane . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ Let's get out of here before MacLane shows and tries to pull me in for this . ’ |
| 20 | Right , I was subject to a , an assault that was quite frightening erm in that I was working in a shop on my own and er someone came into the shop and locked the door behind me and tried er to pull me down towards the back of the shop and er apart from being very frightened I find it difficult to accept that I was just an innocent victim , I kept making excuses that this person who did it to me did n't mean to frighten me he , only could n't communicate that he , he , he said it eventually when I managed to fight him off he said , I just wanted to give you a kiss and er I find it very difficult and I had to be forced to go to the police erm to tell them about this because I thought you know its just a misunderstanding and , but it was terrifying |
| 21 | I had gone too far and experienced too much , I needed to slow down , to get back to the small things , the practical things , to measuring and cutting and fixing , and it was with relief that I noticed that daylight had begun to invade the room , I kept quite still , I held the glass firmly in my gaze , gradually the elements already worked on began to emerge , some more clearly than others , some in outline only and some only when they impeded the free flow of light through the glass , until the sun came up and was reflected back from the windows of the house opposite and I could sit and look at the glass and think back through the work and the mistakes and the few successes , and sense again with that sickening feeling in the pit of the stomach that the whole of the right hand side of the lower panel was still a mess , nothing there had been resolved , but then I drew back from that , though it kept trying to pull me back to itself , and concentrated on what was beginning to work , on the left hand areas both top and bottom and on the elegance of the frame and the joy of seeing the bare walls and the wainscoting appear through the empty areas , and as I moved round so different parts of the room appeared and the relation of the surface of the glass to what lay behind changed , precision and fluidity , precision and fluidity , he wrote , choice and chance , not choice alone and chance alone but the two together , that is why delay , not stoppage and not flow but delay , delay in glass , he wrote , as when the plane is late and you should have been gone , have already arrived perhaps , but you are still there , or the sprinter beats the gun and the whole field is called back , the race could have been over but it has not yet started . |
| 22 | if you have to pull me out of the rubble |
| 23 | Mrs Rumney was shout to lead me through to the kitchen when the door burst open and Cedric bounded delightedly into the midst of the company . |
| 24 | I said my goodbyes to the head of the House of Timur ; Pakeezah offered to lead me back through the labyrinth of Daryaganj to the Faiz Bazaar . |
| 25 | All right , we 'll give it another day or two , but I 'm seeing you back home now , and do n't try to talk me out of it . |
| 26 | Then she tried to talk me out of leaving — laid on the flattery with a trowel . ’ |
| 27 | You usually do your darnedest to talk me out of getting involved in this sort of thing . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Well , do n't think you 're going to talk me out of having it out with her . |
| 29 | I had rehearsed all the routine for the South America job , then I just got a bit panicky ; the captain tried to talk me back into it . |
| 30 | Sam had volunteered to pick me up at the hospital . |