Example sentences of "[verb] i [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ I hope you 're coming to see me on the first night , Georg . |
| 5 | Jim is coming to see me on the fourth of May . |
| 6 | 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 ? |
| 7 | ‘ Did you , as a matter of interest , happen to see me on The Human Angle last week ? ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He maketh me to lie down in green pastures : he leadeth me beside the still waters . |
| 10 | He glared up at me as though seeing me for the first time . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ It did n't affect me in the slightest at first . |
| 14 | Pa sits me on the wooden bench he has built facing the altar , and himself sits down next to me . |
| 15 | A group of pupils studying science asked me about the new member of staff . |
| 16 | My hon. Friend asked me about the medical ethics of the issue . |
| 17 | And she asked me for the fifty P . |
| 18 | Erm you you bring me onto the second dimension of Leeds ' objection which is to do with the distribution of those jobs . |
| 19 | She led me into the pink-and-green chintzy sitting-room where Harry , pale with blue shadows below the eyes , sat in an armchair with his bandaged leg elevated on a large upholstered footstool . |
| 20 | The proprietor led me into the windowless gloom . |
| 21 | She led me into the front room where , defensively , she picked up the baby . |
| 22 | The house we sat in was still in chaos , so she led me to the sunny kitchen , where we talked and drank coffee , surrounded by boxes and plants and the smell of paint . |
| 23 | And her white Reeboks screeched at the marble as she turned and led me to the waiting forms . |
| 24 | The second day continued where the first day left off : four catches by Hick to equal the record for a Test against Pakistan originally set by the little-remembered spinner Jim McConnon of Glamorgan in 1954 , and then my researches led me to the remarkable fact that John Birch , who played for Notts from 1973 to 1988 , was known as ‘ Bonk ’ . |
| 25 | When I said that I did , he led me up the narrow street to the church and unlocked the ancient door . |
| 26 | He led me through the narrow alleys of the Old City until we came to a lane barely two feet wide . |
| 27 | As he led me through the back door and on to the waste ground he used as an unofficial parking lot , he said : ‘ Good runner , only thirty thousand on the clock . ’ |
| 28 | And that got me into the last three so I had to do it all again at the Barbican which I think was to see if I could fill that theatre with enough presence and vocal range . |
| 29 | WordPerfect for Windows Power Macros is one of those weighty ( 500+ pages ) books/manuals and although designed for the ‘ couple of steps up from a basic knowledge ’ reader , I did n't find it got me into the harder bits gently . |
| 30 | She was helping me with the french . |