Example sentences of "[verb] i [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After all this high-profile imagery I had fully expected the Serenade to hit me with a physical force akin to Karajan 's classic BPO digital remake ( DG ) . |
| 2 | When I visit my home city of Manchester , or travel to London , New Age-types seem to greet me in every other conversation . |
| 3 | The most intriguing matter supplied by Gaitskell was when he consulted me about the constant leakage of the party 's National Executive minutes to the Manchester Guardian . |
| 4 | The shaft of the arrow protruding from my back occasionally knocked against something , bringing me to a gasping halt . |
| 5 | My time at the Housing Corporation was eventful in bringing me for the first , but no means last , time into contact with Mrs Thatcher when , on the fall of the Heath government , she became the shadow Minister of the Environment , in succession to the job she had had as Minister of Education . |
| 6 | I think Anna was pleased to see me despite the knowing looks from the other two , and none of them seemed to have heard about Salome , so I stayed tight-lipped . |
| 7 | ‘ I hope you 're coming to see me on the first night , Georg . |
| 8 | Jim is coming to see me on the fourth of May . |
| 9 | I said authenticity was one thing but did my devoted fans really want to see me on the big screen with spots a foot across all over my face ? |
| 10 | ‘ Did you , as a matter of interest , happen to see me on The Human Angle last week ? ’ |
| 11 | Adventure Training put him in contact with me and after five days Bombardier Michael Goldsmith and a subaltern had come to see me from the Outer Hebrides with a view to offering an army vehicle . |
| 12 | He maketh me to lie down in green pastures : he leadeth me beside the still waters . |
| 13 | He glared up at me as though seeing me for the first time . |
| 14 | Within a few days of seeing me for the first time , he summoned me once again to tell me that the Labour Party did not wish to continue with the action . |
| 15 | He tried to kill me for no apparent reason . |
| 16 | They wanted to kill me in a horrific way , to frighten those who work in defence of human rights . |
| 17 | The realization that I had an incurable disease that was likely to kill me in a few years was a bit of a shock . |
| 18 | I can not believe my luck that nobody else had the sense to carry you off but that you should still be there for me and that — ’ Well , that could be taken two ways , on second thoughts that might not be the thing to say , no ; ‘ my luck that you should want me in the same way that I want you . |
| 19 | She met me with a friendly smile , shook my hand and introduced me to the class : ‘ This is Wanda , our new pupil who has come to live in our village . |
| 20 | you met me with an exalted smile |
| 21 | ‘ It did n't affect me in the slightest at first . |
| 22 | Pa sits me on the wooden bench he has built facing the altar , and himself sits down next to me . |
| 23 | I had heard the bell toll … the wave of ecstasy which drove me on to this shore had pressed me into a dark , dull interior . |
| 24 | ‘ Let's go and have a drink , then you can treat me to a celebratory dinner ! ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Other students did n't treat me as a mature student and I got to know students aged 17 to 70 . |
| 26 | But please , Mama , Lucinda pleaded silently , do n't treat me like a complete idiot . |
| 27 | ‘ You need not treat me like a half-witted child ! ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Why ca n't he treat me like a good-time girl , ’ wailed Babs . |
| 29 | Do n't treat me like a naughty schoolgirl . |
| 30 | When it came to boxing , Reg Witter paired me with a bigger boy called Charlie Featherstone , who happened to be quite a friend of mine . |