Example sentences of "[to-vb] i [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Deemy was on hand next morning at sunrise to see me off aboard one of the transport planes carrying some 40 young pilots en route to Fairbanks . |
| 2 | ‘ Let's get out of here before MacLane shows and tries to pull me in for this . ’ |
| 3 | And tell her to pick me up at ten thirty . |
| 4 | Then he walked over and told me that a Corporal from the Foreign Legion recruiting office at Lille would come to pick me up in two hours ; until then I was free to go for a walk and get something to eat . |
| 5 | ‘ Was there a particular reason that caused you to look me up after all this time , James ? ’ |
| 6 | My start was beginning to let me down around this time — Ron and I were concentrating more on my pick-up — but I had the satisfaction of beating Calvin Smith quite comfortably . |
| 7 | When I used to get all excited about the projects you got involved with years ago , you used to slap me down with that . |
| 8 | ‘ Actually the Archdeacon was kind enough to fill me in on that aspect of things . |
| 9 | I AM indebted to John Moorey from Portsmouth who has been kind enough to fill me in with some of the details of the extraordinary golfing life of Mary Toogood , nee Johnson , who died earlier this year . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's very kind of you to put me up at such short notice , but I really would n't dream of imposing . |
| 11 | Laybacks and handjams have been especially efficient at suckering me into their grip only to spew me out into airborne humiliation . |
| 12 | Who 's going to start me off on this one ? |
| 13 | He was meant to phone me up at four ! |
| 14 | Hellen was good enough to invite me along to some of them . |
| 15 | On one memorable day , with Jerry and two other ‘ stalwarts ’ to back me up with moral support , I decided that a stand had to be made . |
| 16 | He used to get me up at six to go in work for seven . |
| 17 | And he he used to get me up at seven o'clock , come to work for him . |
| 18 | There were days when the world was shrouded in a mist and I would feign headaches and period pains to get me out of awkward situations such as reading in class . |
| 19 | I think there must be things I can do now , lucrative things , to get me out of this scene . |
| 20 | " There 's no story going to get me out of this one . " |
| 21 | I want you and the company to find some way to get me out of this mess I 've been landed in . |
| 22 | Barry might well be back any second to get me out of this . ’ |
| 23 | Even at the age of about 13 I 'd be guided only by people who I thought knew something about the game , and who were not thing to stitch me up-I was always thinking people were trying to stitch me up for some reason . |
| 24 | They just happened to move me off into this quieter road . |
| 25 | Interviewed by the Irish Independent , she said : ‘ Any man would be mad to take me on with all these children . |
| 26 | So the school 's first job was to cut me down to normal proportions — which they did . |