Example sentences of "a [noun] [conj] [vb past] i [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He took a stick and hit me on the arm . |
| 2 | That two hit men had waylaid you and that we were making our escape when you suddenly had a brainstorm and accused me of being in league with them ? |
| 3 | Dunkirk in the early summer of 1940 meant the arrival of an exhausted Belgian soldier , who was a teacher and helped me with my French . |
| 4 | ‘ They trussed me up in a skip and left me under the showers . |
| 5 | Foreignness for me provided a difference that moved me in a way that sexual difference never did ’ ( ‘ Home and Abroad ’ , 44 , my emphasis ) . |
| 6 | A shop that fascinated me as a youngster was Wrides , towards the Ivy Street end of Catherine Street . |
| 7 | That was we were using that white stuff , you know thirty , thirty six ? off his hand where it had all dried and he rolled it up in a ball and hit me in the face with it , that hurt . |
| 8 | But Jim insisted , insisted that I bought him a pint and asked me to caddie for him the following week at St Anne 's . |
| 9 | FROM Sasbach my next target was the Danube , a drive that took me through the Black Forest . |
| 10 | There I got on a bus that took me to Le Hospitalet près l'Andorre , and through the frontier post at Pas de la Casa , over the Envalira pass and down into a land whose mountainous beauty at once put me under a spell I shall never forget . |
| 11 | The situation is best illustrated by a letter that reached me at this time from Mrs Mugabe : There was no way in which I could reply to the letter except by a futile expression of sympathy . |
| 12 | The Jungle Book was not mentioned again by any of them , as if they were n't ready to see me as an actor but preferred me in my old role as a useless boy . |