Example sentences of "[vb past] i [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jack and two others who had witnessed the performance , found me and piloted me back to the warmth and safety of the ski-cabin . |
| 2 | The crane then lowered me down towards the two men underneath me who shouted for me to put my arms out so that they could grab me . |
| 3 | Why you ever asked me down in the first place is still a mystery to me . |
| 4 | And then he asked me out in the end . |
| 5 | " My mother is threatening to dismiss all the staff unless I tell her which one of them admitted me back into the house last night . |
| 6 | He led me through to the next room , and up against the wall there lay a stack of some ten to fifteen canvases . |
| 7 | But her eyes were fail of pain as she led me through to the lounge . |
| 8 | Now , " he said , placing a creaky arm across my shoulders as he led me through to the parlour , " I want you to meet Vron . " |
| 9 | When she was satisfied with the state of the blaze Laura led me round to the side of the kiln , removed the bung and gestured for me to look in . |
| 10 | ‘ Good night , gentlemen ! ’ he called out merrily , and humming a hymn , led me out of the room . |
| 11 | He led me out into the snow and we crossed the island towards the beach . |
| 12 | He led me back into the house and up to Southgate 's chamber . |
| 13 | He led me back through the empty-ward to the other end . |
| 14 | I was still trembling when I reached the barn and hardly said a word as Mr Bailes led me back across the road to the farm . |
| 15 | He led me back to the dining hall , vast and empty save for my two friends . |
| 16 | Once he had gone , Benjamin led me back to the stable . |
| 17 | Benjamin rose and , slipping his arm through mine , led me back to the garden , teasing me into a good mood as he explained how he had found Waldegrave drunk as a lord and insensible as a rock in a corner of his opulent chapel . |
| 18 | He put my felonious body in the stocks of his arm and led me off in the direction of what passed for a garden at Sussex , a series of brick-edged parallelograms that could n't have looked more artificial if they had been planted with cathode-ray tubes , instead of hardy perennials . |
| 19 | He got me out of the stream and a bit further back from the drop to our right . |
| 20 | The way I viewed training was that it got me out of the house . |
| 21 | Then they stopped , got me out of the car , still with my bloody hood on , and ripped my clothes off . ’ |
| 22 | Any excuse got me out of the office . |
| 23 | My mother got me out of the room . |
| 24 | ‘ They got me out of the ward and put me under a sheet in this side room . |
| 25 | In fairness to him , Con was kinder than that , even when he got me out of the secretaryship last year . |
| 26 | ‘ It got me out of the way while you put your nasty little heads together ! ’ |
| 27 | ‘ When I thanked you just now , by the way , it was because you got me out of the boat before I hit the water this time . ’ |
| 28 | Sank me back into the past , |
| 29 | The next day they moved me up to the second floor to work with Mr Perkins , a weird old guy who smelt of dogs and cleaned his ears out with the lid from his ballpoint pen . |
| 30 | This brought the chucker-out to see what the commotion was about , but luckily he could n't tell what row it had come from because the old woman snatched me up by the hem of my frock and sat me on the seat . |