Example sentences of "[vb past] i [adv] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ That 's really what drew me here in the first place , ’ he said quietly . |
| 2 | And if you phoned me early in the year it must have been just after we got the V W. |
| 3 | Ivy caught me alone in the passage to say how much I must miss Donald . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Stubbly paused for a moment , then rocked forward on his heels and prodded me gently in the chest with a forefinger . |
| 6 | He prodded me playfully in the chest . |
| 7 | The secret of public speaking , he told me early in the campaign , is to address your audience right between the eyes . |
| 8 | ‘ Psst — Jack , ’ I hissed as he joined me damply in the breeze-filled tent . |
| 9 | He served me well in the attack on the T'ang 's Plantations . ’ |
| 10 | Well I had Mrs in this morning she had a tooth out this morning and he broke it and he tried to get the rest out you know using a special instrument and he twisted it and a fragment of the tooth come off and hit me straight in the eye . |
| 11 | Why , once he looked me right in the face and sneered . |
| 12 | She looked me straight in the eye . |
| 13 | Wilkerson looked me straight in the eye and said , ‘ You could kill me , Nicky . |
| 14 | And then he looked me straight in the face , ‘ One day , soon , Nicky , God 's spirit is going to deal with you . |
| 15 | Wilkerson took the cartons from us and looked me straight in the eye . |
| 16 | At one point during the meal , she reached over to me , put her hand on mine , looked me straight in the eye and said , ‘ I think you are a lesbian . ’ |
| 17 | But my prize for all time lack of observation goes to the old gentleman who , after walking past row upon row of fish tanks , stacks of fish food and eye-catching displays of pond accessories , looked me straight in the eye and said : ‘ Do you do cheese and tomato sandwiches ? ’ |
| 18 | Melanie looked me squarely in the face . |
| 19 | They took me there in the car . |
| 20 | One of the things that bothered me most in the villages of the Delta was the treatment given to women in childbirth . |
| 21 | They were shooed away by the Sheikha , who rebuked them for being naughty and greeted me almost in the same breath . |
| 22 | He just looked at me and then punched me straight in the face . |
| 23 | He shot me again in the right-hand side of my body . ’ |
| 24 | He never wanted me there in the first place . |