Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] i [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | TVH , as it is generally known , was typified for me by a man called Alf Mignot , who died in 1987 in his early sixties . |
| 2 | ‘ I bought the waterfalls off Lloyd Cole before he moved to America , and the rainbow was specially designed for me by a team of clever scientists . |
| 3 | He seemed to have forgotten about me in the middle of his sentence . |
| 4 | I was due to attend a meeting with several other women whom I knew and felt in sympathy with , and when I arrived there , the weight of my unhappiness just rolled off me like an unwanted burden . |
| 5 | I was looking forward to the chance to meet ‘ our ’ health visitor and find out what would be expected of me in the months leading up to the birth . |
| 6 | " Well , mother explained to me what was expected of me in the marriage bed and it sounded so terrifying . |
| 7 | I could do what was expected of me by the crowd , or I could do what he trusted me to do . |
| 8 | I had an Abaya ( the long black gown ) which I had carried with me on the plane and a scarf to cover my hair , so I was able to enter the Ministry of Health without shocking the men too much . |
| 9 | Anybody come with me to the hospital |
| 10 | I cast in and try to shrug off the disappointed , deflated feeling that has come over me since the anticlimax of the eel . |
| 11 | He said , ‘ Sickness has given me this fortune that this sultan has come to my side , at morn so health and well being have accrued to me from the arrival of this King without retinue . |
| 12 | I am a recent subscriber , having recently renewed my subscription for a second year and I have enjoyed every issue that has come to me in the post . |
| 13 | I strongly felt that Resenence had come to me in the dream and yet , when I awoke , when the morning came , I told myself I had created it myself . |
| 14 | Now frankly , an admiral who does n't pick his own bombing targets and a broker who ca n't choose his own investments do n't seem as oppressed to me as a clerk who is n't allowed to press her own return key . |
| 15 | However , the reverse of this experience was reported to me by a woman who lost her lover in a drowning accident . |
| 16 | If he had come at me with a knife , I would have fought him . |
| 17 | The women who were working there looked at me in a kind curious way at first and then took me for granted . |
| 18 | He will be long remembered , valued and respected by me for the development of a movement which firmly established " People 's Art " as part of the expectation of education for each person and especially for children . |
| 19 | I wondered if her presence was an invitation ; I felt that if I stretched out my hand to grasp hers she would have sat by me on the bed . |
| 20 | Little did I imagine that such a move was destined for me within the next two years . |
| 21 | Andy has got a job to do and so have I. But if I lose he will be gutted for me at the end and if I lose I will be gutted for him . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ What saddened me about the reviews , ’ said Crawford , ‘ was n't so much that they had a go at the play , but they did n't recognise all the work done for me by the rest of the team . |
| 23 | The earth never quite moved for me in the Dante Sonata as I thought at one stage it might . |
| 24 | " Everything written about me in the law of Moses and the prophets and the psalms must be fulfilled . " |
| 25 | There was , of course , not a shred of truth in any of the allegations of criminal conduct made against me during the trial by Beck and by his accomplice , Winston . |
| 26 | No , we had no accidents , the only one I had was er when I 'd been right to the top , with the other crane an and it was a long shop , and everyone had done with me during the morning , so I hoisted the crane up , pulled it in towards me and set myself going down the shop , put it in full speed . |
| 27 | I 've just had two presented to me in the last eight months . |
| 28 | SIR — Your agricultural correspondent 's report on the goats of Snowdonia and their origins ( April 2 ) is less exciting than the folklore related to me as a small boy by a Welsh shepherd . |
| 29 | She lived at New Houses , and was related to me in a mixed up kind of way — her father and my grandmother were cousins , but what that made me to Miss Bayles I can not imagine ! |
| 30 | Kinsmen , in this sense , are related to me in a special private way . |