Example sentences of "i [verb] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He stands in the doorway , forcing me to continue dripping in the hall , and says : |
| 2 | Certainly his terse telephone technique had annoyed me last night , but not enough to make me want to spit at the sight of him . |
| 3 | And er erm they saw me on the you know television programme and they asked me to go go to the school and |
| 4 | From this first experiment , I became fascinated with the problem of including lights in paintings . |
| 5 | From this first experiment , I became fascinated with the problem of including lights in paintings . |
| 6 | As a boy , encouraged by my mother , I became fascinated by the mass of mostly unsorted papers lying in the cellars at Plas Newydd . |
| 7 | I became fascinated by the variety of ways . |
| 8 | I became fascinated by the variety of ways . |
| 9 | We did n't see any whales , sharks , or polar bears underwater , but I became fascinated by the cast of characters which made up the food chain in these waters . |
| 10 | Whilst at college I became intrigued by the evidence that Indian art seemed to mean ancient Indian art , referring only to that era before imperialism . |
| 11 | I became assimilated into the gay community and my identity as a Black person sloughed off me . |
| 12 | ‘ It hit Britain in a big way in the mid 80s and I became engrossed in the game . |
| 13 | He commented on his project : ‘ The more I explored , the more I became absorbed with the mystery of the environment . |
| 14 | So flustered was I , in fact , that I became entangled with the bicycles in the hall ( my sons always keep them there , and other things being equal I usually get past them without too much difficulty ) , and I arrived in the dining-room even more distraught than I set out from the study . |
| 15 | Looking intermittently at the so-called colonial art of Latin America in churches , museums , private collections and books , I became magnetised by the figures of angels . |
| 16 | It was only when I actually visited the Broads that I became infected with the same enthusiasm which led Ransome to write the books . |
| 17 | Mr Waite , who was freed last November after five years in Lebanon , says on the ABC programme 20/20 : ‘ One day I asked to go to the bathroom . |
| 18 | I asked to speak to the person in charge of the station . |
| 19 | I avoided looking at the headless pigeon in the gutter . |
| 20 | I avoided looking at the thermometer . |
| 21 | Yeah , I jus I skidded to stop on the back end of it . |
| 22 | In the light of the overall aim , set an immediate end result by answering the question ‘ What result do I want to achieve by the end of this interaction ? ’ |
| 23 | Imagine my shock when , just as I 'd begun thumping the bottom of the big brown pot , I chanced to look inside the bin and there , half buried in rubbish , was Cymbeline 's red plastic teapot . |
| 24 | I mean I read according to the paper this morning young people have got to have a |
| 25 | ‘ I made to go down the stairs to see what was happening . |
| 26 | So do you know when you do you know when you erm I mean lived in the flats in the flats for fifteen years , have you managed to make many friends ? |
| 27 | Erm I mean looking at the , er the only solution , I feel erm another poor factor of this committee is probably er erm unnecessary and if I look at appendix four which lists the possibles , if I can find , erm it is n't actually necessary to have rules all like this , er next years erm , next years priority will be dealt with next year . |
| 28 | I mean looking at the game you just could n't believe United would only get a point out of it erm when you went in at half time only one nil up , you so dominated the game I do n't think Charlton had a chance did they ? |
| 29 | There 's erm And I mean looking after the parish hall as well , why should we bother with that ? |
| 30 | I I think that when we discuss Marxism erm we tend , I mean looked at the |