Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [vb past] i [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | IT WAS a two-part induction process that dragged me into the brawling hostelry in the sky of NME Towers . |
| 2 | My pouch-seat automatically deepened and clutched me like an egg . |
| 3 | There was a bit of head-scratching as they pushed , squeezed and levered me into the passenger seat : ‘ The biggest bloke yet ’ . |
| 4 | Ryan stopped and clapped me on the shoulder . |
| 5 | She stopped and drew me behind a screen of goldenrod , tangled and wild like a neglected hedgerow . |
| 6 | Once , when we were going up one of the main avenues in the city a lump of thawing snow fell from a tree under which we were passing and hit me on the face . |
| 7 | And on a Saturday with Jenny going in if there 's any overtime you and old what's-a-name was there and he came and tapped me on the shoulder . |
| 8 | Mrs Donnan came and took me by the hand . |
| 9 | There the bailiffs pushed and shoved me through a porticoed entrance , down a long , dark , musty passageway into the main well of the court , fastening me to the bar ; beyond it sat the three magistrates before a square table ringed by clerks . |
| 10 | But it was not until I was at Cambridge , in the following year , that my mother noticed and took me to the family doctor . |
| 11 | He was another senior photographer for Surfing and reminded me of a more weatherbeaten Errol Flynn . |
| 12 | And her white Reeboks screeched at the marble as she turned and led me to the waiting forms . |
| 13 | I nodded and followed me to the house . |
| 14 | I shook my head , and she smiled and nodded and patted me on the shoulder and padded off to the kitchen . |
| 15 | Benjamin grinned and clapped me on the shoulder . |
| 16 | I remember feeling Morris dealing with my dead-weight , as he folded and shovelled me into the back of the cab . |
| 17 | The feeling of numb unreality persisted and anaesthetised me through the arduous business of identifying the body and making the necessary arrangements . |
| 18 | He grunted and followed me into the apartment . |
| 19 | ‘ The warder came and told me to dress and led me to an officer of the court , ’ the small , self-effacing lawyer recalled in an interview on Saturday . |
| 20 | They laughed and clapped me on the back and handed the container round the circle again . |
| 21 | He laughed and clapped me on the shoulder . |
| 22 | They laughed and clapped me on the shoulder . |
| 23 | A waiter smiled and ushered me to a corner table marked with a reserved sign that said ‘ Intourist only ’ , and gave me the English-language menu . |
| 24 | Sometimes he immediately pounced upon whatever I said and showed me in a psychoanalytical way how wrong I was , and how right he was . |
| 25 | She grimaced and told me about the school playground and how her clothes were wrong . |
| 26 | ‘ Next ! ’ she plainsonged and fixed me with an old-fashioned look from behind her lorgnette . |
| 27 | I taught her a new move and she practised it on me but she missed and got me in the and I fell on the ground . |
| 28 | She got what she wanted and left me with the rough end of the stick … . |