Example sentences of "[v-ing] i [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Be there — or you 'll really get fucked , ’ he hissed , jabbing a manicured index finger at my face and transfixing me with lifeless black eyes . |
| 2 | ‘ You 're accusing me of burning dogs again , are n't you ? |
| 3 | He has been a fantastic friend helping me with financial work . ’ |
| 4 | While I was still gazing into the water basin , the doctor then covered me with blankets , enclosing me in total darkness . |
| 5 | Though engrossed in picking his teeth with a match he gave me a long appraising stare before addressing me in rich cockney . |
| 6 | One particular Easter , a beautiful day , I remember an overwhelming fear filling me with absolute terror as we stood outside the ticket office after returning from a journey . |
| 7 | filling me with warm salt |
| 8 | Neil said : ‘ Two things are pulling me in opposite directions . |
| 9 | He 's absolutely fanatical about them — full of stories about their characters and sounding me about various treatments . |
| 10 | If she 's not polishing the auld bits and pieces , she 's naggin' me for new curtains ! ’ |
| 11 | Dear Aura of Life , Thank you for jumping and kicking me in tender places cos it gives me something to cuddle — a bruised gut . |
| 12 | I believe God is calling me to full-time service . |
| 13 | She was calling me from central London , having travelled there with her young son on the underground train . |
| 14 | They put the ideas together and I suddenly became aware that they were teaching me about substitutionary atonement . |
| 15 | Having the opportunity to do some work from home is of great assistance providing me with extra flexibility to help balance and organise my professional and domestic commitments . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ You would n't be threatening me with Chinese whispers , would you , Miss Swift ? ’ he said softly , steel edging his voice , ‘ I 'd hate to think you were a scandalmonger . |
| 17 | When he hesitated Carrie ended , ‘ As your mother greeting me with open arms . |
| 18 | ‘ Do n't even think of asking me about female membership , ’ barked the old Sgt-Major . |
| 19 | The honourable gentlemen is asking me for procedural advice across floor of the house , which he knows that I do not volunteer . |
| 20 | He was always inviting me to little supper parties and so on , and it became so noticeable that other people began to make snide comments . |
| 21 | He placed it on a bale of straw and pulled up an upturned bucket as a chair before hopping on to a meal bin where he sat like a pixie on a toadstool with his arms around his knees , regarding me with keen anticipation . |
| 22 | Jeanne , the Vitou 's only daughter was being prepared for evacuation , but my newly found knowledge in medicine and sociology was making me over optimistic . |
| 23 | I am writing this on the train to London , carrying me on smooth , oiled wheels away from the pain , the exhaustion , and , above all , the one worth-while thing I ever did — or tried to do — in my life . |
| 24 | He was forever denouncing me during Parliamentary Questions in the most lurid terms but the denunciations were invariably so protracted that even his own side lost interest . |
| 25 | As I began to serve more regularly I became more accepted amongst the older stalwarts of the service , my naval experience and general seamanship picked up on fishing craft and yachts standing me in good stead . |
| 26 | I saw Pike 's weatherworn little face watching me with intense concentration . |
| 27 | The rats had not shown themselves again , but I 'd begun to feel them watching me from shadowed hiding places . |
| 28 | No less than three supporters , all before opening time , have told me that they know for certain that a League chairman has been watching me in recent weeks . |
| 29 | My local office has plenty of leaflets telling me about wonderful things like savings schemes and child benefit , but rarely stocks the mysterious forms that are supposed to accompany them . |
| 30 | He 's just got me mad now telling me to good luck . |