Example sentences of "[to-vb] i [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think Anna was pleased to see me despite the knowing looks from the other two , and none of them seemed to have heard about Salome , so I stayed tight-lipped . |
| 2 | ‘ I hope you 're coming to see me on the first night , Georg . |
| 3 | Jim is coming to see me on the fourth of May . |
| 4 | I said authenticity was one thing but did my devoted fans really want to see me on the big screen with spots a foot across all over my face ? |
| 5 | ‘ Did you , as a matter of interest , happen to see me on The Human Angle last week ? ’ |
| 6 | Adventure Training put him in contact with me and after five days Bombardier Michael Goldsmith and a subaltern had come to see me from the Outer Hebrides with a view to offering an army vehicle . |
| 7 | Once Crispin arrived , I would want to be out and about with him , so I worked till lunch-time , and was rewarded by reaching the half-way mark , and with a new idea to carry me through the next section of the story . |
| 8 | I might just as well ask him to drive me to the nearest station . |
| 9 | ‘ I persuaded her once or twice to meet me at the ruined tower . |
| 10 | A telephone call to establish whether I had been made redundant or , if not , to inform me of the administrative delay , would have been far more appropriate , and possibly cheaper , than a typed letter announcing the uncleared cheque and the administrative charge . |
| 11 | As a teenager , I laughed off an incident when a nappy horse attempted to deposit me on the wrong side of the railings on a motorway bridge . |
| 12 | A shadow fell across my sunny table and I looked up to find Kenneth who 'd been on a recce of the hospital , so after a lunch of ribs , skins , wings and blueberry pie , he was able to lead me through the appropriate doors of the vast , multi-entranced building . |
| 13 | Just what routes will logic produce to lead me to the complete knowledge of the nature of a flea ? … |
| 14 | as if in a dream , I allowed Mrs Knelle to lead me to the front door . |
| 15 | I turned to my nearest fellow browser , intending to ask her politely but firmly to lead me to the nearest padded cell , but it came out wrong . |
| 16 | No , what I am looking at are the first direct signals to reach me from the dark constellation of Serafin . |
| 17 | I have been interested in the dynamics of the golf swing for ten years , and John is an expert on instrumentation who was able to help me with the experimental work . |
| 18 | It had taken two of them to free me from the current and I was so relieved . |
| 19 | The government 's obvious intention was to identify me as the main source of all the criticism and speculation running counter to the official line on Flight 103 and then to destroy me . |
| 20 | ‘ I do not actually need the evidence of two people in one bedroom and the sight of crumpled covers to point me in the right direction . |
| 21 | I have n't a clue about the layout of this house , so you 're going to have to point me in the right direction ! ’ |
| 22 | As my bus drives up to ease me from the pitiful world outside , Clary waves , a week hand emerging from his dark shadow huddled from the cold . |
| 23 | He continued to astound me for the next four years . |
| 24 | To fly me to the small airport outside Freiburg near the Black Forest . ’ |
| 25 | If you will be good enough to furnish me with the necessary linen , I will take it upon myself to make Lady Merchiston a degree more comfortable . ’ |
| 26 | She was frigid and strait-laced and therefore somewhat ill-equipped to keep me on the straight and narrow . |
| 27 | For as long as I have been conscious she has been out there in front of me , dodging arrows , triggering ambushes ; doubling back to brief me on the safest and fastest route forward . |
| 28 | If the hon. Member for Leicester , South ( Mr. Marshall ) would like to accompany me in the new year , I should be only too happy to take him on a tour and show him just how much is happening outside Belfast as well as in it . |
| 29 | ‘ I want you to phone me on the usual number at eleven , old chum , and do n't fail . ’ |
| 30 | Said she 's guaranteed to phone me before the next council meeting , so that we know what we 're doing , so I 'll keep at her . |