Example sentences of "[vb past] i [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've come to Saint Mary 's and I 've been here er just over a year now and erm Rosie collared me into speaking to you |
| 2 | The other day , some man attacked me for using the phrase ‘ biological clock ’ . |
| 3 | However , one day I my colleague attacked me for imposing my ‘ middle-class values ’ on the children because I had emphasized polite speech and decent manners in my sessions . |
| 4 | I was 45 before I spoke with Toscanini and then he attacked me for doing Debussy 's Pelléas et Mélisande at La Scala in French . |
| 5 | " He asked me to met him several times a year , I tried to advise him , to tell him how I saw things in the world . " |
| 6 | In this chapter , I have outlined how a distinct sociological perspective led me into asking particular questions about child abuse , some of the ways in which these questions were explored and some of the insights yielded by such an approach . |
| 7 | It was this change of circumstances which led me in announcing the making of the emergency order to say that W. 's wishes were no longer of weight . |
| 8 | Thinking of Bonanza got me on trying to figure his reaction if Vecchi got hooked for the Mahoney killing . |
| 9 | He got me into pickpocketing , doing cheques and all them kind of things . |
| 10 | He rebuked me for liking it . |
| 11 | He gladly accepted a lift back to Stromness on Venturous and repaid me by filling in some details for my report on the development of the terminal and the Piper Oil Field which would be supplying it . |
| 12 | ‘ And so , she repaid me by paying a great deal of attention to you tonight , signore . |
| 13 | He tricked me into telling him . |
| 14 | ‘ He tricked me into employing him to look after my boats simply in order to gain access to my cousin . |
| 15 | And then he likewise tricked me into employing you as her tutor in order that he could continue to divert her from her studies . ’ |
| 16 | For as long as it took me to get out of range , several birds used me for bombing practice , coming so close on occasions that ducking was a necessity rather than a flamboyant gesture . |
| 17 | In the Airds ' duplex apartment I hung my raincoat over Tessa 's second mink with a malign hope that it would drip , which involved me in turning in my tracks after a minute or two to take the gesture back . |
| 18 | They were and still are helpful in my classical playing , but they also helped me in developing slurring in my electric playing . |
| 19 | The same consideration stopped me from butting the animal ; I was n't going to put my face near those teeth . |
| 20 | In fact it was you I think who stopped me from pulling it up , I bought it as a , a stick from Bromley , in Bromley |
| 21 | I wish I had saved the hedgehog now , and not stood aside , and I have been wondering what stopped me from performing a natural act of sentimental kindness . |
| 22 | For 11 years they stopped me from coming back here . |
| 23 | Still , that discovery never stopped me from making another collection of the glistening best ones that same night . |
| 24 | There was something wrong with my mouth , which stopped me from talking properly . |
| 25 | As Reid led the patient with the bloody head indoors , the white man turned to me , almost stopped me from going inside and said in an educated voice , ‘ Good morning , Doctor , and welcome to Koraloona . |
| 26 | Something happened that stopped me from going . |
| 27 | She cast a steely glance in the direction of the wardens , who clustered together in the corner watching the noisy lot of prisoners and their visitors , and advised me against looking in my bag . |
| 28 | My Japanese friends wonder at my passion , because he is not very well known and not very successful , though when he visited Paris with his fellow sumotori he was at once called ‘ the Japanese Alain Delon ’ — to my mind , an insult to my hero , but for a while that kind of adulation seemed to give him a little of the confidence he needed , and on his return to Japan he delighted me by winning an unusually high number of contests . |
| 29 | And Kegan was old-womaning around until he drove me to agreeing to talk to the wretched people . |
| 30 | A headline in the Sun more than hints where the blame should lie — GIRL 'S LUSTFUL TOUCHES DROVE ME TO KILLING . |