Example sentences of "[verb] i [prep] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ashley met me in the Jac that night , listened to my woes , bought me drink when I ran out of money ( I 'm sure I was short-changed at the bar ) even though she probably had less dosh than I did , and listened to my woes all over again when we went back to her mum 's and sat up till God knows when , talking low so we would n't wake Dean in the next room . |
| 2 | ‘ We 'll take it , ’ she said firmly , taking out my credit cards , my pen , easing me towards the Mercury phone booth which doubled as his office . |
| 3 | Kenneth is meeting me , to drive me to the Cromwell Hospital . |
| 4 | He rose to conduct me round the TOM complex . |
| 5 | Recently , the Queen invited me to the Windsor Horse show along with my little friend Mohammed Al Fayed , who has a shop in Knightsbridge , the name of which escapes me . |
| 6 | He 's picked me for the Jack Gannon , and I 'm four months under age , and he says Hermia 's really improved . ’ |
| 7 | Pleased , that is , until I discovered that I had forgotten to bring the tea bags — the subsequent ‘ Well , why did n't you bring them then 's , ‘ Why is it always my fault 's reminded me of the Quentin Crisp line that marriage was impossible for him because he could not have tolerated an endless succession of mornings when the first words he heard were , ‘ And another thing ’ — and that there were no birds . |
| 8 | Every Saturday found me in the Hippodrome , our nearest cinema , which stood like a red-brick wireless set at the junction of Main Street , Byrely Road and Auckland Terrace . |
| 9 | anybody then he wants me to the Thursday and I said yeah that 's alright . |
| 10 | So I told them what I would do , but once again I 've never been in the situation but this is what I 'll do , said as if they were me own parents make them as comfortable as I could while I 'll cleaned up and give them a bed bath or if they could shower , shower them and erm and get everything back to normal as quick as possible , fine , that were all fine she , and then as , as I got up from it they all said thanks a lot Joy it has been great you really have been great you 've made it easy , we 've got an easy day in front thanks to you , you know you 're bubbly and all this and then when she phoned me on the Sunday she said hello Joy it 's Sue here and I , I said will you let me know one way or the another cos I said I hate being left up in the air |
| 11 | ‘ Well , if I ca n't come here , Linton can come to visit me at the Grange , ’ suggested Cathy happily . |
| 12 | A talkative Bruce Willis dropped me outside the London flat fifteen minutes later ( you can assess the situation on the way upstairs ) , and Kenneth came down to meet me at the door . |
| 13 | An elderly English lady , with a tendency to pre-war propriety , who told me on the Friday that she was afraid it would all be ‘ another load of pretentious American rubbish ’ , said on Sunday that she had learned to open up for the first time in her life . |
| 14 | Yeah , cos we was there in the August , they were n't , we moved in , in the July , there , and the girls were , Matthew was just four , cos just as we moved in our dad took Matthew to Hungary with him , it was like , it was like they were going on the following Wednesday , and he told me on the Friday , he came in on the Friday night , they planned , it was our dad , Crystal and Danielle , Crystal and Danielle , but she said even if I go out in the middle of . |
| 15 | Sitting in Casey 's office with a group of people sometime in the autumn of 1985 , John McMahon , his deputy , suddenly said : ‘ You wo n't believe what Bud McFarlane just told me at the White House . ’ |
| 16 | However , I can remember clearly my own alarm , bordering on terror , when he told me about the Butcher 's measuring rod . |
| 17 | She told me about the Sheikhas of Al Ain , which were good and which were not truly hospitable or kind . |
| 18 | He also found two more lumps in my groin and immediately booked me into the Princess Grace Hospital for the biopsy I had five days ago . |
| 19 | When I saw Dr Wardle he booked me into the Princess Grace Hospital the following Wednesday . |
| 20 | They telephoned me at the St. Ermin 's Hotel , where Mollie and I were staying while our house in Smith Square was under repair , to pledge their support . |
| 21 | ‘ I blame it on the fact that someone linked me with the US government , ’ he says . |
| 22 | He had already told me on the Friday at the training session , and in front of about 20 of the lads , that I was n't in the team . |
| 23 | ‘ Tell me about the Butcher . ’ |
| 24 | Tell me about the Brighton Festival Chorus itself . |
| 25 | ‘ From what you tell me of the EC grants , he 's too damned honest , ’ Jessica laughed . |
| 26 | Marcos fairy tale A touching story has reached me from the Manila Times of how Ferdinand Marcos had planned to bequeath more than £2.5bn in gold to his beloved people , but fell ill before he could sign the will . |
| 27 | He 's mad on polo so he takes me to the Hurlingham Club to watch him play . |
| 28 | My lead takes me to the Butcher Building . |
| 29 | You like yams ? ’ he asks as he hurries me through the West Indian greengrocer 's and out the back . |
| 30 | But another sister followed me at the Dowsons when I left to get married . |