Example sentences of "i [prep] [art] [noun pl] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hee-Haw carried me through the trees and the three of us travelled a long way . |
| 2 | I was to have not only a tape-recorder but a minder as well to guide me through the intricacies and , I imagine , the possible legal hazards of broadcasting such an item ; he and his lady assistant would arrive and spend a day with me the following week . |
| 3 | My senses took me through the bars that confined me . |
| 4 | Rye praises the IT she has received : ‘ The project has kept me off the streets and taught me useful things like carpentry . |
| 5 | Can you advise me about the pros and cons and tell me the best way to retain their copper finish ? |
| 6 | ‘ Did you care when you walked out on me the day that you told me about the notes and the wine glass , and then Rebecca came back to the office ? |
| 7 | Oi asked Miki from Lush if she would tell me about the birds and the bees but instead she twatted me with a flange pedal . |
| 8 | Mostly she quizzed me about the burglars and I said they 'd tried to get in through the bathroom window and one of them had put a foot through it , probably coming from the roof next door , and I generally made out that there was a whole gang of footpads up there lying in wait for Santa Claus . |
| 9 | Can you tell me about the buildings that were around the airport ? |
| 10 | I do n't want you to tell me about the messages that those channel give , okay ? |
| 11 | But then she scratched me between the ears and I started purring despite myself . |
| 12 | ‘ Get me past the walls and the rest is for me to do , and I 'll be grateful to you lifelong . ’ |
| 13 | Only let me past the walls and I ask no more . ’ |
| 14 | My faithful driver , Murphy , met me at the gate , taking my bags and walking me past the vagrants and money changers to his car , an old American model that had become something of a collector 's item . |
| 15 | Nothing remains to me of the pleasures and possessions of my old life , which you now enjoy at my expense . |
| 16 | The newcomer listened in his turn to the description Mrs Zamzam had given me of the events that led her to run away from Um Al-Farajh , occasionally nodding agreement or interrupting to correct her account . |
| 17 | I tried boxing when I was fifteen and won a bout against an opponent who was smaller than me and who normally wore thick glasses ; I went on to the second round of the competition and was beaten flat in thirty seconds by a demon midget who hammered me onto the ropes and kept hitting me until the referee stopped the bout before I suffered permanent damage . |
| 18 | He saw me up the steps and then bounded down them and drove away . |
| 19 | She said : ‘ I am enjoying it although it is difficult for me with the customers as I do n't know the shop . ’ |
| 20 | He helped me with the goats and with the work in the cornfields , and soon we were good friends . |
| 21 | Benjamin pulled me into the shadows as Mandeville came out to issue curt instructions for the dead sheriff 's body to be removed and informed the soldiers that he would stay at Templecombe for a while . |
| 22 | At one point on the next night Jordi drew me into the shadows and to my astonishment produced a vicious-looking switch-blade knife , warning me never to look at another man in his presence . |
| 23 | Whereas hostility was expressed towards me in the taunts and jeers of my classmates and even by physical assault , I reckoned that Elsie would have had to put up with prejudice of a different sort . |
| 24 | Even so , the cherry berets threw me to the ground , kicking me in the ribs as they frisked me for weapons . |
| 25 | They hacked me in the ribs and then proceeded to batter me about the head . |
| 26 | It dries up too ; it cakes all over me ; sometimes I feel there is not enough soap in the whole world to cleanse me from the things that I did in your name … ’ |
| 27 | An experience at Scout camp one summer , finally alerted me to the dangers that could befall a young lad if he was n't too careful . |
| 28 | Looking forward to the circus , but could I ask you not to throw me to the lions until I 've got my accounts in order ? |
| 29 | It 'll be up to him whether he throws me to the dogs and I finish up in a debtor 's prison , or whether he turns into a guardian angel complete with halo and big fat cheque . |
| 30 | That operation as I understand it is certainly either available on the National Health or er likely to be available on the national health I have not understood that it is the sort of operation which will for any reason suddenly need to be done and I bear in mind that the plaintiff has had already an operation on his hip done on the National Health , it seems to me on the probabilities that there is a very strong probability that that operation will be done on the National Health and not done privately and for that reason it does not seem to me right to include any sum in relation to that in the damages . |