Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] i [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She tried kicking me out of the classroom . |
| 2 | Once when I was leaving for Europe , he came to see me off at the airport , bringing a parting gift . |
| 3 | I was looking for then features ed James Brown , who 'd phoned me up on the strength of Issue One of my fanzine This Is This ( which went on to sell in excess of 30 copies to my friends and family ) . |
| 4 | He let the night silently envelop and possess us , let time fall away ; then began to draw me back down the decades . |
| 5 | I read more widely and , as news of my expertise spread , people began to seek me out for a ruling on a specific industrial relations issue or for an historical precedent . |
| 6 | I said my goodbyes to the head of the House of Timur ; Pakeezah offered to lead me back through the labyrinth of Daryaganj to the Faiz Bazaar . |
| 7 | On the third evening , I was sitting drinking alone and started talking to a man who offered to walk me back to the hotel . |
| 8 | He planned to get me out of the way so he could bid for the portmanteau . |
| 9 | It was the Officer who had turfed me out of the church yesterday when I was playing the bagpipes . |
| 10 | I had this idea they had booked me in for a Caesarean because I 'm small , but had n't told me . |
| 11 | A few weeks earlier he had phoned me out of the blue — I think he was checking to see how many of his cronies were still alive ! |
| 12 | I got involved with one of the servants I told you about , that had pawed me about in a cupboard . |
| 13 | However , they had got me out of the way and I felt at least with a following wind a big lad would hit the ball in my direction and I might be able to do something . |
| 14 | It was the thought of her that had drawn me back to the Lodge with my dream , and if this odd enterprise had any meaning at all it must lie , I believed , somewhere between the three of us . |
| 15 | Earnest me anyway slightly hankered alter another Italian boy , Joseph , who had invited me out for a walk . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I guessed why she had brought me round into the shadow . |
| 18 | The accidents that had brought me back into the past were real enough . |
| 19 | It was the music that had brought me in from the hall where I had been lying . |
| 20 | Someone , at some stage , had worked me over with a tool , a spike or a blunt shiv . |
| 21 | Some of the theories would have made Balzac blush , but they finally decided I 'd been sleeping with Laura , her husband had beaten me up in a dark alley , and now I was on my way to kill him . |
| 22 | His arrival had jolted me back into a proper appreciation of my problems , which I 'd pushed aside in my enjoyment of Mala 's warmer mood . |
| 23 | ‘ 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 . |
| 24 | ‘ He wanted to set me up in a flat he said he owned . |
| 25 | At Cambridge , NUPE put a picket around the Union building where I was taking part in a debate and the police wanted to take me in by a side entrance . |