Example sentences of "[vb past] i [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most intriguing matter supplied by Gaitskell was when he consulted me about the constant leakage of the party 's National Executive minutes to the Manchester Guardian . |
| 2 | A group of pupils studying science asked me about the new member of staff . |
| 3 | My hon. Friend asked me about the medical ethics of the issue . |
| 4 | And she asked me for the fifty P . |
| 5 | She led me into the pink-and-green chintzy sitting-room where Harry , pale with blue shadows below the eyes , sat in an armchair with his bandaged leg elevated on a large upholstered footstool . |
| 6 | The proprietor led me into the windowless gloom . |
| 7 | She led me into the front room where , defensively , she picked up the baby . |
| 8 | The house we sat in was still in chaos , so she led me to the sunny kitchen , where we talked and drank coffee , surrounded by boxes and plants and the smell of paint . |
| 9 | And her white Reeboks screeched at the marble as she turned and led me to the waiting forms . |
| 10 | The second day continued where the first day left off : four catches by Hick to equal the record for a Test against Pakistan originally set by the little-remembered spinner Jim McConnon of Glamorgan in 1954 , and then my researches led me to the remarkable fact that John Birch , who played for Notts from 1973 to 1988 , was known as ‘ Bonk ’ . |
| 11 | When I said that I did , he led me up the narrow street to the church and unlocked the ancient door . |
| 12 | He led me through the narrow alleys of the Old City until we came to a lane barely two feet wide . |
| 13 | As he led me through the back door and on to the waste ground he used as an unofficial parking lot , he said : ‘ Good runner , only thirty thousand on the clock . ’ |
| 14 | And that got me into the last three so I had to do it all again at the Barbican which I think was to see if I could fill that theatre with enough presence and vocal range . |
| 15 | WordPerfect for Windows Power Macros is one of those weighty ( 500+ pages ) books/manuals and although designed for the ‘ couple of steps up from a basic knowledge ’ reader , I did n't find it got me into the harder bits gently . |
| 16 | As I panted in the thin air , a herdboy passed me on the broken steps which zigzagged up the mountainside , joining the smooth terraces with their retaining walls of stone . |
| 17 | But they refreshed me , sustained me through the subsequent days and weeks , like water in a camel 's hump . |
| 18 | There was a period of incredibly intense excitement which , I think , probably sustained me for the next five or ten years . |
| 19 | First of all Gyggle tried me on the same sort of rudimentary exercises that I remembered performing as a child . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | And when , as shadow education spokesman , I was a frontline campaigner in the nineteen eighty seven election , it was the G M B which provided me with the necessary facilities to carry out that role , and I thank them for it . |
| 22 | Sure enough , a high-pitched peeping drew me to the stable , and there on the floor was the hen with one minute black puff-ball of a chick . |
| 23 | Instead of joining the press of bodies that jammed up the aisle towards the crush bar , he took my arm once again and drew me in the opposite direction . |
| 24 | The boy found me at the sweet shop across the street , and told me of the drama . |
| 25 | But I could n't get the door shut to lock him in and he caught me in the other cellar . |
| 26 | I had no money , and she helped me over the worst times . |
| 27 | They helped me over the next road , me nearly tripping as I crossed the far kerb . |
| 28 | Elizabeth helped me with the flapping chair . |
| 29 | She had been a major influence in my life , and helped me through the rough patches . |
| 30 | You helped me in the early days . |