Example sentences of "[vb pp] i [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had heard the bell toll … the wave of ecstasy which drove me on to this shore had pressed me into a dark , dull interior . |
| 2 | No yes Mr Singe is dedicated to the fewcher of Athletes Whaddon and to proove it has prezented me with a BLANK czech for £53–24p only , which is at my dispozal for strainthning the squid . |
| 3 | But by far the best gift was given me by a little red-haired girl , Betty , who gave me ( a virgin boy ) her body . |
| 4 | But JUSt as it IS proper for me to look back to my wedding day as assurance that I am really married , so it is proper to look back to my baptism as a mark given me by the Holy Spirit that I am really born again in Christ , and to the eucharist as a pledge that I do partake of his life , feed on him , and shall in the last day share his resurrection . |
| 5 | I for one value the friendship that he has given me in the eight and a half years that I have been a Member of the House , despite the fact that we are in different parties and disagree on many issues . |
| 6 | Their one hundred and fifty ton heavy life crane would have coped with that job easily enough but I hastily declined his offer which , apart from any other consideration would have placed me at a slight disadvantage . |
| 7 | plagued me like a treacherous intimate |
| 8 | I mean , he 's respected me in a queer way . |
| 9 | The sweeping contours of the hill at that point have always reminded me of a huge wave about to break , and it 's an uncomfortable thought trying to imagine where you might stop for lunch , and what would happen if you dropped your orange . |
| 10 | He has educated me in the best sense of the word and I have trusted him as I think I would trust no one else of my own sex . |
| 11 | Last time I had been to Paris they had rescued me from the freezing streets and hungry wolf packs . ) |
| 12 | ‘ I rang the airport straight away — they 've booked me on the first flight out . |
| 13 | It was nearly forty years later that I met the man who had carried me into the only half track we had left and who reassured me . |
| 14 | It has carried me from the comfortable Salisbury suburb where a kind Scottish family have made me a home , to a rough Bulawayo farmstead . |
| 15 | He could have dropped me off the first time ! |
| 16 | ‘ You 've caught me on a bad day , ’ grunts Graeme Souness , as he ambles across the mahogany lined reception at Ibrox . |
| 17 | ‘ You 've caught me on a bad day , I 'm afraid . ’ |
| 18 | I am pleased to have the opportunity to raise this subject which has interested me for a long time . |
| 19 | It has n't prepared me for the outside world ; all it 's done is given me an awareness of myself . |
| 20 | Nothing had prepared me for the overwhelming architectural beauty of Salamanca , and in particular for the grandeur of the university , the oldest in Spain and one of the oldest in Europe , with its noble façade in plateresque style . |
| 21 | Racks and Torments ! dost think , Child , that my Limbs were made for leaping of Ditches , and clambring over Stiles ; or that my Parents wisely foreseeing my future Happiness in Country-pleasures , had early instructed me in the rural Accomplishments of drinking fat Ale , playing at Whisk , and smoaking Tobacco with my Husband ; or of spreading of Plaisters , brewing of Diet-drinks , and stilling Rosemary-Water with the good old Gentlewoman , my Mother-in-Law … . |
| 22 | Throughout the whole ghastly hour , I thought with gratitude of the boring school routines and the strict schoolmasters who have made me into the psychological oddity which I am today . |
| 23 | When has anyone among you seen me with a gloomy face ? |
| 24 | I 'd been walking for 45 minutes when I was hailed by a local farmer who had seen me on the moonlit road . |
| 25 | This is me , I goes , I goes I 'll let it slip this time cos you have n't seen me for a few weeks . |
| 26 | True , I had the somewhat grisly T-shirt and track-suit bottoms which had gamely seen me through a two-hour run-through , but they were in a state and could probably have walked unaided to the BBC on their own . |
| 27 | You have n't seen me since the bad time with the lawyers . ’ |
| 28 | I only wish Daddy could have seen me in the black lace dress . |
| 29 | An offshore worker has presented me with a detailed file containing his experiences as a safety representative . |
| 30 | It has , for example , turned me into a complete Danny Baker fan . |