Example sentences of "[verb] i [adv] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now unle now unless there are any participants that want , really burning to make a comment , er I feel that we have settled , well we 've had enough discussion on little A , I 've got enough , well I 've got enough from you in terms of your views about size of settlement , and Mr Brighton has pointed me again in the direction of his submission about er the definition of an integrated and balanced community , I would like to know , er from Mr Davis whether he concurs with that sort of interpretation , and I have a feeling that we have also had an expression , generally , that at the moment one settlement is probably appropriate , if you have to have a new settlement . |
| 2 | Why you ever asked me down in the first place is still a mystery to me . |
| 3 | And then he asked me out in the end . |
| 4 | He put my felonious body in the stocks of his arm and led me off in the direction of what passed for a garden at Sussex , a series of brick-edged parallelograms that could n't have looked more artificial if they had been planted with cathode-ray tubes , instead of hardy perennials . |
| 5 | ‘ Lay me quietly in the earth ’ , he requested , ‘ … no monument to mark where I am laid . |
| 6 | I mean I normally in the past I 've always gone for experienced keepers because you know I mean they they do n't come to their prime until , I do n't think goalkeepers over twenty six twenty seven onwards . |
| 7 | I turn away so I ca n't look at her , but she leans over and looks me straight in the face . |
| 8 | He looks me straight in the eyes as he takes his hand from my glass . |
| 9 | Kellard looks me briefly in the eye . |
| 10 | ‘ That 's really what drew me here in the first place , ’ he said quietly . |
| 11 | I 'm left with the fact that they knock me up in the middle of the night , turn my place over , give me a hard time , then just forget about it all . |
| 12 | Four days later found me out in the garden learning the ‘ Western roll ’ over a beautifully ( if hastily ) made high jump frame . |
| 13 | Yes she still phoned me up in the morning and at vast expense to tell me how awful everything was . |
| 14 | And if you phoned me early in the year it must have been just after we got the V W. |
| 15 | I never give up on people — even those who have let me down in the past . |
| 16 | Ivy caught me alone in the passage to say how much I must miss Donald . |
| 17 | If she caught me now in the front hall she would waste a good ten minutes warning me that I was risking tuberculosis and a gastric ulcer by being too late to eat a proper meal quietly , and probably throw in the chances of my poisoning a patient with the wrong drug before the night was out through carelessness induced by my own lack of blood-sugar . |
| 18 | Stubbly paused for a moment , then rocked forward on his heels and prodded me gently in the chest with a forefinger . |
| 19 | He prodded me playfully in the chest . |
| 20 | So then I began to be really pretty busy with running the office and then keeping my home , but I 'd got a husband who was very , very , handy and helped me out in the home you know . |
| 21 | And the chauffeur drove me down in the car and sat beside the car waiting on me . |
| 22 | The secret of public speaking , he told me early in the campaign , is to address your audience right between the eyes . |
| 23 | She comes back across the room , punches me playfully in the chest , then flops on to the sofa . |
| 24 | The woman is looking me straight in the eyes , Alida thought , she does not know even the basic elements of courtesy , she has paid no attention at all to the very relevant account of my condition . |
| 25 | Looking me straight in the eye she replied , ‘ Nice is in every child . ’ |
| 26 | I was brought up to be a butcher , ’ the man replied , looking me cordially in the eye . |
| 27 | Picture me now in the operating theatre , on the black tile floor , under the kettle lights , with a mild headache and half a hard-on , spooning tumour into the human body . |
| 28 | They impress me less in the beautiful central Andante in C minor : it needs expressive playing which should be poignant without overstepping the bounds of musical propriety that Mozart set himself , and here it sounds merely pleasing . |
| 29 | Well I had learnt shorthand and typing at school but erm the money was necessary at home you see , and er with my sister working there , at H and T Hornes , er she spoke for me and er I had an interview and and they put me up in the nursery , we used to call it the nursery see because we were all fourteens up there and er then they called it the cylinder shop and er my foreman was a fella name Archie and erm everything was very very strict indeed , we could not move away from our board you could n't speak to the next one that was working by you , and er there was a fella named Mr and he was he , I did n't work for him I worked for Mr , but some you cou you were afraid to move because of this man and he he he 'd stare at you and he 'd look at you and anyway erm they put me assembling and it was very interesting indeed , there was a tall stand on , we called it the bench , a tall stand with a screw on the top and then to as begin to assemble the locks you had to take what we would call the body , screw it into the er little on the stand and then we had tweezers , there were , in the body there were five springs and then you had to have five breast pins and when you got the springs in you .. we have to have a plug at the back so as we could put each pin and push the plug over that a dummy plug we called it and so that was five pins were in and then there was a ball er when that , when we came to put it in our vice , we had to put the V I C E not V O voice . |
| 30 | Put me completely in the shade . ’ |