Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] i in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much more cogent reasons for Ms Brown 's correct conviction are to be found in Lady Diana 's own words , which I quote from Philip Ziegler 's biography and which amply confirms others , just as forceful , that she used to me in the course of our more than 40 years of close friendship : I never responded to his dribbling , dwarfish little amorous singeries . |
| 2 | This is another of Nic Picot 's tricks which he tried on me in the pub outside the Magic Circle . |
| 3 | ‘ It came from me in the first place , did n't it ? |
| 4 | When Pat came to me in the autumn of 1989 she was suffering from osteoarthritis of the neck and spine with accompanying raised blood pressure . |
| 5 | I waited until you came to me in the hospital , I had to . |
| 6 | ‘ When they came to me in the summer , some of the shirts they offered were horrible . |
| 7 | No more than an hour passed before Jean-Claude came to me in the scullery and said he would be away for a few days . |
| 8 | She exploded at me in the hospital . |
| 9 | The violence of this transition became more cushioned for me in the mid-seventies , when we built our bamboo and coconut-wood home in the highlands of Bali , which for seven years now has served us as a sort of decompression chamber between the two worlds . |
| 10 | No one mentioned it was essential training as a motoring correspondent to have a car crash , but it happened to me in the same gruesome circumstances that confront hundreds of motorists every week . |
| 11 | ‘ Only one thing of importance happened to me in the Argentine . |
| 12 | I have no memory of anything that happened to me in the last ten years . ’ |
| 13 | Why does he refuse to meet any groups other than farmers , as he confirmed to me in the House on 17 February ? |
| 14 | He grinned at me in the gloom , and introduced himself as if I might recognize the name . |
| 15 | Everybody talked to me in the corridor . |
| 16 | Wilde 's transgressive aesthetic simultaneously confirmed and exploited this inextricable connection between the sexual and the ( apparently ) non-sexual , between sexual perversion and social subversion , and does so through Wilde 's own version of that connection : ‘ what paradox was to me in the sphere of thought , perversity became to me in the sphere of passion ’ ( Wilde , De Profundis , 466 ) . |
| 17 | My father read to me in the evening , something I looked forward to enormously . |
| 18 | How it grew upon me in the night , he wrote . |
| 19 | Only two of them fell over me in the sleeping-bag . |
| 20 | She looked at me in the candle-light . |
| 21 | It looked at me in the kind of easy , assessing way dogs on their peculiar errands do look at strangers — and then looked again , and stopped dead : his hackles rose : he backed , he made a kind of howling noise , turned tail , and fled . |
| 22 | A white-faced Mathilda sped by me in the gallery but Benjamin was shouting for me so I decided not to accost her . |
| 23 | A lot of people wept over me in the war — and not women only . ’ |
| 24 | And I still remember what you did to me in the car . |
| 25 | I can still remember what you did to me in the car . |
| 26 | ‘ A man spoke to me in the graveyard , ’ Ruth announced , as they ate at the table . |
| 27 | That weekend is also memorable for something Dana said to me in the train on the way back to Salamanca : ‘ I knew you were gay as soon as I saw you that morning in the galleria . ’ |
| 28 | ( 'They said to me in the shop , ’ she 'd said to Anna , ‘ they said did I want the one with a little man on or not . |
| 29 | But as you said to me in the lodge , he will be reborn after his death as a warrior . |
| 30 | I know , well no she does know , she said to me in the car once you think I do n't know anything but |