Example sentences of "i [adv prt] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | It is urging me on over the years bidding me neglect those that were without Cathenne , where as I set out to tell the story of my life , the dull with the bright , the gray with the green , all the Sundays Mondays and Tuesdays of it at least sufficiently to suggest them . |
2 | ‘ Sadly there is n't a venue in England yet 1,200 British fans came over to cheer me on at The Hague in Holland recently . ’ |
3 | Er I also need people to help me on with the bar wi serving on the bar . |
4 | The Austrian officials were quite another matter ; middle-aged , self-confident , well dressed and courteous , they enquired how long I intended to stay , glanced in the boot , and waved me on with the hope that I would enjoy my stay . |
5 | Before waiting for an answer she takes me by the hand and leads me on to the dance floor . |
6 | For if nothing else , by the time I had flown another twelve hours north from Auckland , and my jet had settled me on to the runway at Kai Tak airport in Hong Kong , I was still on the periphery of the Pacific Ocean . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | ‘ 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 . |
9 | He guided me on to the terrace to share a bottle of one of his finest vintages . |
10 | I remember she crouched down and lifted me on to the table . |
11 | A great mammoth of an American truck went thundering past , forcing me on to the dirt shoulder . |
12 | When we got to the airport at Stansted , she 'd even arranged for the Captain to escort me on to the plane . |
13 | Good thing you brought me along with the baggage , you know . |
14 | The old gentleman who was the owner of the shop encouraged me and helped me along into the business . |
15 | It just started from there and Michael said he liked the way I played and that he would help me along in the industry , and this was just before his career hit . |
16 | ‘ He wheeled me in as the star turn , ’ said Lydia indignantly when she got back . |
17 | ‘ The water 's risen two floors from where Bryce pulled me in off the telegraph pole , ’ Maggie reported . |
18 | Once again it brings me in to the point where er double glazers have to go and measure up then do their , I know they 've got lovely lap tops I 've seen them now with their lap top comp their little samples there special catches here . |
19 | ‘ They let me in on the secret quite early — then people started joking about it . |
20 | So let me in on the secret . |
21 | People keep mentioning this Peter Barnes guy , could someone please let me in on the joke . |
22 | Well , now that I 've tracked you down , perhaps you would n't mind letting me in on the key to all this mystery . |
23 | ‘ You 'd better fill me in on the details , ’ he said . |
24 | " Fill me in on the tits , Slick . |
25 | ‘ All you have to do , Sorrel dear , is fill me in on the gossip about Simon Cawthorne . |
26 | He made the mistake of letting me in on the ground floor when he was offering a Pissarro . |
27 | I do n't know whether you 'll think I 'm boasting but that is n't the case , but I never ever regretted it and it a great deal of respect for me , you know and I could see that and did appreciate it and I know the people appreciated it just the same and erm it 's gone on from then till now but about , I retired in seventy-three , I was sixty-five and I said I 'd only do what anybody wanted for me , cos they had me in for the tax and I never ever heard twenty-one I think it was or thirty-one in come and I 'd go before I could satisfy them at Walsall but er I 'd got , not got enough money to be taxed in the bank , which was true . |
28 | By Sunday evening , though , I was getting back to myself and expected to be let out in a day or two but they kept me in for the week , giving me tests , including an electrocardiogram . ’ |
29 | It was the music that had brought me in from the hall where I had been lying . |
30 | A shop assistant promised me that a head torch would ‘ bring me down off the mountain after dark ’ . |