Example sentences of "[vb pp] i [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You have treated me with great courtesy and kindness ; for all that I thank you . |
| 2 | Bill 's call had shaken me in more ways than one , so I dispensed with discretion . |
| 3 | For all she knows , the social services could have given me to another family . |
| 4 | On the machine build that he 's given me for this year , of which that is an example . |
| 5 | finally , when both my parents were away somewhere , I took the opportunity to draw out of the Post Office bank all the very modest amount of money that people had given me on special occasions like my christening . |
| 6 | Anyway , I 'd been very busy the day before and Doreen had irritated me for other reasons . |
| 7 | ‘ What do you mean to do , ’ demanded Harry , looking fiercely up at him from under drawn brows , ‘ now that you 've tricked me into this betrayal ? |
| 8 | One that has plagued me for some while . |
| 9 | My family have sometimes joined me on these camps but are mainly content to be ‘ Guiding Orphans ’ as well as ‘ Medau Orphans ’ . |
| 10 | I placed Geoffrey Wilkinson , a Principal Inspector of Accidents ( who has now succeeded me as Chief Inspector and head of AIB ) , in charge of the investigation . |
| 11 | Somehow she felt this to be a fact , so she said , ‘ Yes — he 's trusted me with such things as letters and accounts . |
| 12 | They were continual concrete evidence of the sleight of hand which had conjured me from one world to another . |
| 13 | Is it my Unconscious ( of the existence of which I have informed doubts ) that has dropped me in this plight ? |
| 14 | Well yes since leaving college yes it 's been predominantly figurative and I always take my subject matter from things that I 've seen which have interested me for one reason or another . |
| 15 | I have to say that nothing in my career so far has prepared me for this kind of work . |
| 16 | ‘ This was equally true of the teachers , since they , together with the headmaster , could have decided to stop my research whenever they felt it threaten them ; equally , if they had accepted me with open arms it would have meant that the boys would not have trusted me greatly . ’ |
| 17 | You 've probably saved me from some kind of demonic sacrifice . |
| 18 | Hast Thou ever seen me for that reason at all dejected ? |
| 19 | My little girl Natasha was with a friend at the time and because my mum had n't seen me for some time she was concerned . |
| 20 | By the time the aged parents had arrived , Lisabeth was ensconced in my bedroom , the sleeping-bag ( which has seen me through three continents , two sit-ins , an eviction and a New Year 's Eve in Trafalgar Square , and which I called Hemingway ) in place on the sofa . |
| 21 | ‘ Seen me through some things . ’ |
| 22 | Sitting in the train , with a Sunday paper which I 'd automatically bought lying unopened on my knee , I felt a sense of relief at being away from him , at being surrounded by a lot of impersonal uncaring strangers who could see nothing different about me because they 'd never seen me before last night . |
| 23 | ‘ If you were n't Eddie 's kid sister I 'd have given you a far harder ride for what you 've just accused me of this evening , so do n't push your luck , Dr Kate Ash , because you might come to regret it ! ’ |
| 24 | Edward insisted : ‘ They have accused me of damaging land owned by the DoE , but in fact I have improved it . |
| 25 | Oh no he would n't have had me in any case . |
| 26 | Before that , Rachel had simply been my younger sister ; prettier , brighter and sweeter than me , but that had never really bothered me until that moment , when I realised that Jacob obviously loved her far more than he would ever love me . |
| 27 | Before I left I tried to ring Nassim Nassim , my erstwhile landlord and Sunil 's cousin and , I 'd decided by now , the man who had got me into this mess . |
| 28 | ‘ It 's helped me through this depression , actually . |
| 29 | I remembered , however , that my father had told me of this sort of thing happening in the past , and the sands had always returned over the following few weeks and months . |
| 30 | ‘ You still have n't told me about this evidence you have against me , ’ Claudia said with an assumed air of indifference . |