Example sentences of "[to-vb] i [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | " Mum used to send me down to the job centre for jobs . |
| 32 | Each evening when we tidied away our papers I expected Edward to invite me over to the Lodge for a drink or a meal , and the invitation was not extended . |
| 33 | Nine hundred of the strongest men worked for about three hours to lift me on to the platform , and one thousand five hundred of the King 's largest horses ( each eleven and a half centimetres high ) pulled me to the capital . |
| 34 | I needed something , some gesture , to lift me out of the realms of the ordinary . |
| 35 | They pulled me up off the floor with my hands up behind my back and they were walking me out of the chemist with my arms up and my head pushed down and one of them was kicking me in the back of my legs to get me over to the car . |
| 36 | Mainly to get me out of the house , probably , but when I told my father I was going to be an actor he immediately thought I 'd turned gay . |
| 37 | My aunt was the one who went to all the trouble of trying to get me out of the Soviet Union . ’ |
| 38 | Gharr had already tried to get me out of the way — probably thinking that Mala would collect it and her too . |
| 39 | We can both feel the strain plucking at the atmosphere , so when I say I 'll return the keys to the landlord she gives me his address to get me out of the way . |
| 40 | He planned to get me out of the way so he could bid for the portmanteau . |
| 41 | But I never felt that he was going to get me out in the second innings . |
| 42 | ‘ I needed last Wednesday 's Coca-Cola Cup game against Bristol Rovers to get me back into the swing of things after a three-match suspension . |
| 43 | Maybe he thought he was going to get me back into the Church , but what I was doing was strictly pagan . |
| 44 | He said : ‘ I have been out for nearly 14 months and now there is a great rush to get me back in the squad . |
| 45 | I told Jean-Claude to drop me off at the Place St Michel . |
| 46 | ‘ I want you to drop me off at the nearest hotel , ’ she told him in a strained voice . |
| 47 | He said : ‘ I asked her to drop me off at the nearby Woodcutters Club . |
| 48 | The day came suddenly and before I knew it my father was driving me into the town of Ipswich to drop me off near the studio . |
| 49 | And what makes you think I choose Pickerage to toss me off in the bogs ? ’ |
| 50 | Not going to pay me back for the bloody nose , even if you did nearly knock my head off ? ’ |
| 51 | To soften me up for the kill ? |
| 52 | All right , I was Marius ’ personal assistant and there 's no reason to assume that Nigel would want to take me over in the same role . |
| 53 | An Aberdeenshire small farmer had retired , but onto a seven-acre croft where ‘ they used to always have fences to mend and trees to cut down ; ’ ‘ he used to take me round on the barrow , when he was cuttin' down trees . ’ |
| 54 | The big , light-hungry leaves were almost black now as I walked briskly back along the path searching for the track to take me back to the lodge . |
| 55 | When it was time to leave and I was waiting for the car to take me back to the station for the journey back , I have to confess that I shed a tear or two . |
| 56 | It was Edna , my nursemaid , who used to take me down to the beach where we lived . |
| 57 | As Glumdalclitch was ill , I asked a young servant to take me down to the beach for some fresh air . |
| 58 | ‘ I could n't see too well with my contact lens cataracts , and the crew would walk me over to the wheelchair where they had to wheel me on to the sound stage . |
| 59 | Clearly it was a transitional object , purpose-built to drag me back into the world of men and affairs . |
| 60 | Signora Puglia was consulted and she suggested that she should give me private lessons after school to bring me up to the standard of the others . |