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Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] i [prep] [art] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	I loved it when a whole pile of notes met me in the morning and I did not surface till lunchtime .
2	Later in my life — ça sera pour un autre jour — birds led me into a very unusual experience .
3	‘ I have discovered that the black people I have been working with in the inner cities proposed me for the award .
4	Bob and I are progressing as a piano/clarsach duo , and of course some of the accompaniments to his songs tax me to the limit , or have to be vetoed altogether .
5	‘ I buy enough marmalade at local fayres to see me through the year .
6	One of the lads asked me at a dance how I had earned my living before I had got married .
7	waves push me to the side
8	In my teens , similar doubts lured me into the darker recesses of the family 's medical encyclopedia , there to discover I was Britain 's first recorded case of Futtock 's Syndrome .
9	The words cut me like a sword .
10	No , what I am looking at are the first direct signals to reach me from the dark constellation of Serafin .
11	I could have stayed in London of course , eating my heart out for you as I have done ever since you put your head down on to your bread and butter here in this room and burst into tears ; but the combination of Christmas , and not having seen you in months drove me to a railway station and this morgue of a house .
12	I had each Wednesday afternoon off from Russell 's and he enroled me , secretly , into his school for lessons with his normal classes , He and his wife held a weekly open house and these cramming sessions prepared me for the coming Halton entrance examination .
13	You know , every week pop fans stop me on the street , the noo .
14	You know , every week pop fans stop me on the street , the noo .
15	‘ The Open College of the Arts encouraged me to a course in music using electronic keyboards and things took off after that . ’
16	‘ I do not actually need the evidence of two people in one bedroom and the sight of crumpled covers to point me in the right direction .
17	Whereupon I fell about in my chair at this with an effective simulacrum of sycophancy , then matadored the old charm around in front of him for a few minutes , and before you could say fundador Walt was on his knees begging me for the coup de grâce .
18	Perhaps you will be so good as to tell your guards to accompany me to the foot of the hill ? "
19	The social pressures of my peers precipitated me into a frenzied bout of heterosexuality , usually accompanied by drunkenness .
20	In any event , a few particularly strident voices denounced me over the agreement .
21	The present generation of British and American literary Marxists remind me of the small boy in Joyce 's story , ‘ Araby ’ , who got to the bazaar just as it was closing .
22	My eyes fail me like every other part of my body . ’
23	Neither of them felt up to leading and their enquiring eyes forced me into the lead .
24	I endeavoured to paint a picture of this scene , but again and again legions of midges drove me from the spot : I got a phial of essence supposed to keep them away , but alas ! in vain .
25	Some girls I knew had arranged for their two penfriends to meet me at the Gare du Nord and , somehow , we recognised one another .
26	These matters confirm me in the view already expressed that the disturbance complained of in this case is not actionable .
27	My senses took me through the bars that confined me .
28	Somehow , I never found my way back to Porthford until this week , when the March winds blew me in a letter from Ilsa .
29	The heads of the Valuation Department guaranteed me enough work to justify my continued employment , one of my many visits taking me to the Channel Islands during the ‘ phoney war ’ , while the enemy were occupied with Russia .
30	A Cornish miner later recalled of his late-eighteenth-century childhood : When I was eight years old my parents sent me to a raiding school kept by a poor owld man called Stephen Martin .