Example sentences of "[vb past] i [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , said he , ‘ Would the comrade who interrupted me please stand up ! ’ |
| 2 | Now you d you went and interrupted me there and , and I 've forgotten what I was saying which was right . |
| 3 | ‘ Manipulated me here ? ’ |
| 4 | He probed me psychologically , whilst laying siege with the battering ram of his biro to the airy battlements of the beard . |
| 5 | Aye , Alan met me here |
| 6 | Saturday , 13th : Arrived at Delhi airport over two hours late , at 06.30. met me personally at the barrier and eased me through the arrival formalities . |
| 7 | On another occasion , a woman cousin met me there and we stood talking , ‘ Who was that woman you were talking to ? ’ |
| 8 | Before you met me there , that is ? ’ |
| 9 | His elbows stuck out through holes in a filthy jersey , his shorts were similarly ragged , but what appalled me most was the sour smell of his unwashed little body . |
| 10 | And there was a lot of space between the hut and the door and the wind took me and flung me right up against the tank and I went down to the ground and crawled on me hands and knees . |
| 11 | ‘ Now , ’ he whispered confidentially , ‘ the thing to remember is that the Greek Orthodox priest is the one on the left with the beard , ’ and with that flung me determinedly into my seat . |
| 12 | You took my youth , my innocence — everything I had ! — and then you flung me aside when you knew I could give you nothing … and you left me nothing ! ’ |
| 13 | Well she collared me yesterday , unfortunately , so I 've got ta do it until |
| 14 | At a conference at Oxford in December 1989 , Professor Randolph Quirk , the famous linguist , attacked me fiercely for including material like this , which could be easily misrepresented by the press . |
| 15 | Then he said to Rain : ‘ He attacked me only with words . ’ |
| 16 | So when I was ushered into his consulting room , it was his welfare that concerned me as much as my own . |
| 17 | I was also interested in the possible help for tension , worry and lowering my blood pressure which had lately begun to rise and which concerned me greatly . |
| 18 | It concerned me deeply that the men going back to Burma should have a smattering of the language , especially those who would go in with the Wingate levies into occupied Burma . |
| 19 | Then laid me gently in bed . |
| 20 | I joined the Medjays in the south , and served at Napata , before they posted me here . ’ |
| 21 | And if the only reason you asked me here was to inflict this on |
| 22 | ‘ Have you been invited to tea ? ’ she asked me crossly . |
| 23 | When Michael asked me later ‘ Are you ready for Sunset yet ? ’ , |
| 24 | ‘ You reckon we can go bonefishing again tomorrow ? ’ he asked me instead . |
| 25 | Johnson even complained a little — or so Boswell suggests — that he was not seeing enough of Boswell : ‘ He asked me today , how it happened we were so little together . ’ |
| 26 | They just asked me 'Where 's your money ? ' |
| 27 | When he asked me again , we were alone in the sitting-room . |
| 28 | At first they asked me if I wanted my mum to go out but I said No , but when they started asking me all those sorts of questions they asked me again and I said Yes . |
| 29 | The soldier , seeing my uninteresting-looking machine , asked me again if I would not prefer to choose a new one , but I refused . |
| 30 | So I did n't know anything about it you know , till somebody asked me Well asked me really , Mr 's going away is n't he ? |