Example sentences of "[vb pp] [verb] i [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The authorities in Addis Ababa had undertaken to provide me with an escort of ten soldiers while I was among the Danakil . |
| 2 | Adventure Training put him in contact with me and after five days Bombardier Michael Goldsmith and a subaltern had come to see me from the Outer Hebrides with a view to offering an army vehicle . |
| 3 | The other exercises were designed to help me with a problem of co-ordination in hammer-ons and in string skipping . |
| 4 | There is nothing that is infinitely irresistible nor that is truly immovable , and as for the idea of a ‘ substance impossible to contain' — that , I decided , was a fiendish invention designed to get me into a muddle as I was sure that such a substance would be a manifest impossibility in practice . |
| 5 | Obviously a testimonial of this kind was not designed to endear me to a number of critics . |
| 6 | This man , Tepilit , was injured helping me with the filming of a lion hunt . |
| 7 | The bats just decided to smash me around the island , and for every bag of boundaries they hit they then made a mistake . |
| 8 | Even more exciting for me was the news that our Principal , Reg Clarke , had decided to entrust me with the command of the first of the 1.5 million pound cruisers to be named Searcher . |
| 9 | A wooden scooter he 'd made tipped me over the handlebars on its maiden voyage and he picked it up and smashed it to smithereens against a lamp-post , as if it were a cobra that had just delivered a fatal bite . |
| 10 | I had it done to remind me of a mistake from which I have learnt much , and of an ending which I have no cause to regret . ’ |
| 11 | The words and melodies of the hymns used during the day all helped to put me in a receptive mood . |
| 12 | Another five seconds and you 'd have had to scrape me off the underside of this thing . ’ |
| 13 | I mean , schools the only thing I was , I 'd been governor of a a school for thirty years that was used to depress me with the fact that we could n't get for our schools the things that we needed because to me and to all the people in Harlow who have children are concerned that we are being stopped so much money on education which is the most vital thing in our children 's lives ! |
| 14 | It was time to gird up my loins , the way the black skirts and white garotte of the preacher 's collar had boomed when my grandmother-who-was-not had taken me by the hand to church so many times . |
| 15 | got to get me with the |
| 16 | Father had promised to take me with the added bonus of an afternoon off school . |
| 17 | Robert had previously offered to show me round the zoo and explain the veterinary work he does there . ’ |
| 18 | I mean look at myself , my father was a doctor , his father was a schoolteacher , so the way one used to look at things , that immediately when I was born put me in the middle class erm bracket . |
| 19 | Meanwhile , the BBC photographer had arrived to photograph me for the Radio Times . |
| 20 | On another occasion , this suspicion might have been calculated to cripple me with a sense of my own worthlessness . |
| 21 | He could n't have rushed passed me into the bedroom , seized the bottle as a convenient weapon — he could n't have known it was there , anyway — and then dashed back out to hit me before dragging me … do you see what I 'm saying ? ’ |
| 22 | While he was thinking how to do this , he was asked to bring me to the palace . |
| 23 | Sometime around the middle of the week , Dr MacLennan was allowed to see me for a while , after Diggs overruled my father 's refusal to have me medically inspected by anybody else but him . |
| 24 | She might have tried to reach me at the office during the afternoon . |
| 25 | He 'd tried to ring me with the good news but I had been out . |
| 26 | If I had ever thought of the possibility of being taken prisoner while I was in England , I should have expected all Germans to be like the officer who had tried to interrogate me at the aerodrome or the two soldiers who had brought me from the aerodrome to Amsterdam . |
| 27 | Ted Heath was sent to inform me of the result . |
| 28 | Lord Aldington is determined to pursue me to the end . |
| 29 | The way Batty was handled strikes me as a sign that the management are not thinking along winning the championship this year but are prepared to bide their time . |
| 30 | Perhaps I was n't the plaything of a mage , who was determined to drag me into a frightening and chaotic world of naked will , only a seriously neurotic person in need of help . |