Example sentences of "[verb] i [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Perhaps there was someone behind me who was just about to hit me over the head .
2 ‘ Do n't worry … you can sleep alone — I can take a hint that I 'm not wanted without you having to hit me over the head with it , ’ he finished bitterly .
3 They were prepared to hit me on the head , were n't they ? ’
4 For a moment , I thought he was going to hit me with the shoe ; then he dropped it on the floor and began to pull at my clothes .
5 Anyway today we had the scene where Matt had to hit me with the paddle sort of semi-accidentally .
6 If you want to hit me across the airport , I 'll understand , OK , but I 'm staying with Alejandro .
7 All the same I felt a twinge of unease as he came to greet me in the bar of the Atlantic Hotel in Hamburg , an admiral now and much older , hobbling a little and holding a stick .
8 ‘ You might have heard me on the radio , ’ she said .
9 waves push me to the side
10 Wilson 's Cabinet — jealous of a non-political and non-party intruder — had decided not to include me in the team .
11 I could n't help smiling at that ; she still had n't quite forgiven me for the fact that her remedy had n't been effective .
12 Please do n't throw me on the floor !
13 There the young ladies ' brother found me , when he returned home a few minutes later , and he insisted , much against the housekeeper 's wishes , on bringing me into the house .
14 ‘ I buy enough marmalade at local fayres to see me through the year .
15 I was on my way to Glen Nevis with enough gear to see me through the night .
16 Oh , and Frank wanted to see me about the car .
17 For myself , I wish to say to men that as long as they associate me with an idea of ‘ woman ’ drawn from the past , or suppose that a model for gender relations is to be found in that past , they have failed to see me for the person who I am , or to envisage what equality might mean .
18 I could tell Gillian and Stuart were n't thrilled to see me at the airport .
19 So er I thought a alright then , so I I went off like and I just heard erm and said , I went up to see her mother like and , I told her mother about it , like and that and erm her mother says different now , that she came round to see me at the time to tell , to give me a telling off like over her friend .
20 I asked her to come to see me on the day after her arrival and at the hour of sunset , the best time for the wonderful view that I then had to offer her .
21 See , she came to see me on the bridge . ’
22 So it was just My mother used to see me across the road with my shilling to pay for my pinny .
23 He came to see me after the performance — several times , in fact . ’
24 Oddly enough , I did n't happen to be in my room again when Terry Wogan came to see me before the show on the second occasion .
25 All the crew liked and even obeyed Silver , and he was always pleased to see me in the kitchen , which he kept as clean as a new pin .
26 Camino came to see me in the bank and asked if the village girls would be prepared to collect food and take it on their bicycles to the prisoners .
27 Reception rang through and said there was a lady waiting to see me in the foyer .
28 He used to come to see me in the prison .
29 I asked the governor whether I could have a visit in the probation department so that Karen did n't have to see me in the gym with everyone else and I could talk to her a bit more intimately .
30 It was supposed to shoot back up again , hitting my jutting backside en route and pitching me across the stage , but it did n't .
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