Example sentences of "[vb past] i [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most intriguing matter supplied by Gaitskell was when he consulted me about the constant leakage of the party 's National Executive minutes to the Manchester Guardian . |
| 2 | She leaned in and pecked me on the lips . |
| 3 | ‘ He met me at the station … ’ |
| 4 | I had supposed that Aunt Louise would be in bed , but she met me at the door ; opened it , in fact , and held it ready for me to come in , because there was something she was bursting to tell me : ‘ I 'm not staying in this cold place a day longer . ’ |
| 5 | Rich and Syb met me at the station . |
| 6 | My faithful driver , Murphy , met me at the gate , taking my bags and walking me past the vagrants and money changers to his car , an old American model that had become something of a collector 's item . |
| 7 | On the appointed Saturday in October , Micky met me at the railway station and drove me ( in a fairly elderly Morris Oxford with a canvas hood ) right down the High as far as the University Church , and there he parked ( no problem then ) . |
| 8 | Ken met me at the entrance and guided me into a side room . |
| 9 | But he s he met me on the road one day and he said to me , Miss , it would pay you to give a decent price for it , he said to me . |
| 10 | I loved it when a whole pile of notes met me in the morning and I did not surface till lunchtime . |
| 11 | You would n't recognise me if you met me in the bath . ’ |
| 12 | Ashley met me in the Jac that night , listened to my woes , bought me drink when I ran out of money ( I 'm sure I was short-changed at the bar ) even though she probably had less dosh than I did , and listened to my woes all over again when we went back to her mum 's and sat up till God knows when , talking low so we would n't wake Dean in the next room . |
| 13 | My father met me in the kitchen . |
| 14 | P : I was coming home from a party with Robert Mitchum drinking cider when one of Shane 's gang came out and stabbed me in the arm … ( goes on for about ten more pages — Freudian Ed ) |
| 15 | He smiled too , and stabbed me in the gut with the gun-barrel hard enough to make me suck in my breath . |
| 16 | He caught me around the waist and flung me to the floor . |
| 17 | When I left in December 1928 he succeeded me in the house as Captain of Games . |
| 18 | Seeing my stricken face the producer tried to offer some comfort and advice as he propelled me through the studio door . |
| 19 | He propelled me off the terrace and through the shuttered dining-room . |
| 20 | She menaced me with the extinguisher 's nozzle and , because I knew Ellen did not make idle threats , and because I knew she despised all displays of macho violence , I obediently stepped backwards and watched as she transferred the extinguisher 's aim to Sweetman . |
| 21 | Pahdra Singh mounted the pavement in his Bentley this morning and pinned me to the window of the Wimpy Bar . |
| 22 | only your mother was n't sure she asked me on the phone |
| 23 | A group of pupils studying science asked me about the new member of staff . |
| 24 | Bobby Lavender asked me about the target range . |
| 25 | She often asked me about the hills in the distance , beyond the moors , and wanted to ride her pony there . |
| 26 | The hon. Gentleman asked me about the degree of support from medical staff . |
| 27 | My hon. Friend asked me about the medical ethics of the issue . |
| 28 | The hon. Member for Linlithgow ( Mr. Dalyell ) asked me about the independence of the funding council . |
| 29 | You asked me about the stance we were to adopt . |
| 30 | And she asked me for the fifty P . |