Example sentences of "me [adv prt] [conj] i [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The whole restaurant cheered me on as I fought my way out into the night . |
| 2 | The wind and waves pushed me along as I struggled to keep my head above water . |
| 3 | At night the Temple gates were always closed , but the night-porter let me in when I told him my name . |
| 4 | Went to Rubella 's in the evening but they would n't let me in because I had a bit of instant Whip on my Brummy vest . |
| 5 | He 'ad a knife and said he 'd do me in if I did n't tell him why we steamed the letter open . |
| 6 | Mrs Rumney herself let me in and I felt a shock of surprise at my first sight of her . |
| 7 | By Christmas it was really getting me down but I had to keep going . |
| 8 | My shorthand also let me down when I attended a local inquest . |
| 9 | And having committed the boy to a day on the rubbish , he could hardly turn me down when I suggested we settle for a couple of hours ' conversation over a few beers , after he 'd sorted out the mess . |
| 10 | I was between jobs , and I actually had enough to tide me over while I had a sabbatical . |
| 11 | We snatched opportunities when we could , when my children were staying with friends or even , once , and extra dangerously , when they were asleep ( though the fear that one of them might wake put me off so I did n't try that again ) . |
| 12 | I mean she used to toss , toss me off on the old and there 's , there 's and she used to sit on there used , used to sit on there she used to toss me off and I got this fucking as she 's tossing me off she did this love bite . |
| 13 | It shook me up and I went to see a social worker who was visiting our local family centre , but that just made things worse . |
| 14 | The following morning , the scout picked me up and I went for a trial . |
| 15 | lift me up , lift me up and I went back and I went back and I , I fell . |
| 16 | Maskell set me up and I rifled it in , high into the net . |
| 17 | I went and sat in a field and experienced that great bubbling up of love for the Father and for Jesus which I expressed alternately in English and in this new language which I did not understand but which I knew was to be addressed to God and which built me up as I used it . |
| 18 | I was expecting the lads soon , anyway , as they were coming to pick me up if I had not arrived by lunch-time and it was noon already . |
| 19 | Will the diploma take me up if I had them two ? |
| 20 | Dawn , 24 , said at home in Middlesbrough : ‘ It broke me up when I learned about Bernadette 's baby . |
| 21 | The lads would stay put and do their washing , though one of them would drive into town at lunch-time and bring me back if I had not already managed to get a lift back myself . |
| 22 | It quite knocked me back when I saw it . |
| 23 | And on the Dixon fight , the British , European and Commonwealth champion said : ‘ I gave him a taste but he got a bit feisty by trying to hit me back and I took him out . |
| 24 | So I came out with my speech about this weirdo , nothing in it et cetera et cetera , and then the money ran out and I got her to ring me back and I said it all over again ( nothing in it … ) and she hooted and said , ‘ I 'll bet . |
| 25 | Pushing me back where I sat , opening my legs , thrusting it between them |
| 26 | The safety-belt held me back as I jerked forward and at the same second heard the ghastly clash of metal hitting metal . |
| 27 | The feeling sent the adrenalin rushing around so fast that it threatened to wear me out before I got to my destination . |
| 28 | ‘ My ole lady threatened ter chuck me out if I did n't look fer a job , ’ he said suddenly . |
| 29 | Coober Pedy ( form the aboriginal kupa piti meaning " white man 's burrow " ) has a large migrant population but it was an Australian who dug me out when I became bogged down in the dull-dust , and an old swagman on the road who warned me to keep an eye on the weather . |
| 30 | But he came and sorted me out and I asked , I said I 'll see what I can do and I got hold of it and I did it for him . |