Example sentences of "i [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 He pulled rank and went to bed at half past eleven , leaving me on for the late-night drinks .
2 They 'll be easing me on as the new presenter so as not to put too much pressure on me .
3 ’ You put me on to a good thing , ’ he went on , ’ with Ardakke .
4 My brother could make me cry just by lifting me on to a five-foot-high garden trellis and leaving me there , so I was hardly a miniature Chris Bonnington .
5 Which brings me on to the major bookshop sellers , led by two strong titles :
6 yes and that , that in a way leads me on to the next party , if we 're gon na have an agreement between this group or , you know , the other group
7 That 's why I object strongly to the Office 's plugging me in as an Automatic Nurse for one night ! ’
8 Now fill me in on a few of these files . ’
9 ‘ I 've been thinking about Simon , ’ he said , as he began to eat , ‘ and I 'd be grateful if you could fill me in on a few things . ’
10 They vied with each other to fill me in on the gruesome details .
11 Iain filled me in on the essential details while I was devouring that gargantuan breakfast .
12 I wanted her to fill me in on the blank spots , and I wanted to hear it from her , not anybody else .
13 She measures out her guarded replies to him in neat , carefully checked words , as once she had suggested , from the top of the steps outside their front door , that Millie might like to invite me in for a few minutes .
14 put me in for a lovely red for me .
15 My priestly friend set me down outside the two cathedrals and I bade him a fond farewell .
16 The crane then lowered me down towards the two men underneath me who shouted for me to put my arms out so that they could grab me .
17 Skirting a tinker camp , Mrs M. eventually put me down beside the fast-flowing River Moy at Ballina .
18 They did come in , and it took seven of them to get me down to a single cell .
19 So anyway , after fucking weeks and weeks and weeks I had come out to me one day , and Mr came out and he said to me he had a wee bucket and shovels and he says er bring me down to the first floor so I opened to let him out and he gets out and he says to me , now take her half way between the first and second floor and stop her .
20 He put me on a stretcher , had me carried about half a mile across fields to an ambulance , which in turn took me down to the local advanced dressing station .
21 It 's been really getting me down for the last four seasons — I 've been running disgustingly .
22 Well knock me down with a naked Klingon !
23 I 'll never even dare to be successful , because when I 'm dead some clod with a thesis to write will put me down as a wild-eyed harridan who jumped on her lover in the street and pulled all his hair out because he 'd gone off with a person with webbed feet .
24 Marks me down as a prime strategic thinker , and no mistake . ’
25 Why you ever asked me down in the first place is still a mystery to me .
26 But I was awoken from my daydreaming by her calling me over to the large chest which stood beneath the window .
27 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 .
28 He led me through to the next room , and up against the wall there lay a stack of some ten to fifteen canvases .
29 A servant took Benjamin and me off into the main hall , past the great chamber where meals were served , and up a spiral staircase to the third floor above the solar .
30 ‘ When I was at drama school , they paired me off with a lovely actor who was only five foot eight and we had to play husband and wife !
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