Example sentences of "[vb pp] i [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But JUSt as it IS proper for me to look back to my wedding day as assurance that I am really married , so it is proper to look back to my baptism as a mark given me by the Holy Spirit that I am really born again in Christ , and to the eucharist as a pledge that I do partake of his life , feed on him , and shall in the last day share his resurrection . |
| 2 | I for one value the friendship that he has given me in the eight and a half years that I have been a Member of the House , despite the fact that we are in different parties and disagree on many issues . |
| 3 | He has educated me in the best sense of the word and I have trusted him as I think I would trust no one else of my own sex . |
| 4 | Last time I had been to Paris they had rescued me from the freezing streets and hungry wolf packs . ) |
| 5 | ‘ I rang the airport straight away — they 've booked me on the first flight out . |
| 6 | It was nearly forty years later that I met the man who had carried me into the only half track we had left and who reassured me . |
| 7 | It has carried me from the comfortable Salisbury suburb where a kind Scottish family have made me a home , to a rough Bulawayo farmstead . |
| 8 | He could have dropped me off the first time ! |
| 9 | It has n't prepared me for the outside world ; all it 's done is given me an awareness of myself . |
| 10 | Nothing had prepared me for the overwhelming architectural beauty of Salamanca , and in particular for the grandeur of the university , the oldest in Spain and one of the oldest in Europe , with its noble façade in plateresque style . |
| 11 | Racks and Torments ! dost think , Child , that my Limbs were made for leaping of Ditches , and clambring over Stiles ; or that my Parents wisely foreseeing my future Happiness in Country-pleasures , had early instructed me in the rural Accomplishments of drinking fat Ale , playing at Whisk , and smoaking Tobacco with my Husband ; or of spreading of Plaisters , brewing of Diet-drinks , and stilling Rosemary-Water with the good old Gentlewoman , my Mother-in-Law … . |
| 12 | Throughout the whole ghastly hour , I thought with gratitude of the boring school routines and the strict schoolmasters who have made me into the psychological oddity which I am today . |
| 13 | I 'd been walking for 45 minutes when I was hailed by a local farmer who had seen me on the moonlit road . |
| 14 | You have n't seen me since the bad time with the lawyers . ’ |
| 15 | I only wish Daddy could have seen me in the black lace dress . |
| 16 | What 's really moved me over the last three or four years , as AIDS has become a major threat in this country , and especially since spring 1985 with the rising public hysteria about it , is that it 's brought out tremendous reserves of strength in lesbians and gay men which show the importance of the achievements of the previous fifteen years . |
| 17 | Your good influence and help has sometimes drawn me from the enwrapping pleasure of scenes which before held me alone with them … |
| 18 | ‘ Is n't that why you 've avoided me like the very plague ever since I 've been here ? ’ |
| 19 | You 've got me on the touhgest part of the course and I 'm quite out of breath . |
| 20 | ‘ Ah yes , ’ Leon turned to Mrs Yaxlee , ‘ your George has told me of the great days . |
| 21 | Someone should have told me about the local MIND and the National Schizophrenia Fellowship and what they could offer . |
| 22 | ‘ I represent about 12 players at Tottenham Hotspur , and they 've all told me in the last couple of days that they certainly will put in for transfers and leave Tottenham Hotspur . ’ |
| 23 | What has frankly surprised me about the last decade is the way in which social scientists who make no claim to a Christian profession have been talking openly about the relevance of religious values to our current economic problems in the Western world . |
| 24 | He had had no private income , pension , or — which had surprised me in the last few years — life insurance . |
| 25 | The extraordinary stop-start conversation between Victor and his monster had convinced me of the latter 's supreme dangerousness : given its malevolence , its lying and eloquent tongue was probably as big a threat as its turn of speed . |
| 26 | If he had played me at the same age he 'd have given me three blacks start and a beating . |
| 27 | A number of concerned people have contacted me over the past few weeks over my absence from the pages of Shooting Gallery . |
| 28 | Years ago I used to think this was a fun sport but the reason for thinking this has escaped me for the last 2 weeks . |
| 29 | ‘ It 's worse for them because they blame themselves for having provided me with the financial means to take a plebeian job . ’ |
| 30 | And it was indescribably eerie — so that I almost began to wonder if Posi had brought me to the right planet . |