Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] i with " in BNC.
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| 31 | Then the hairdresser , saying ‘ Now I 'll keep the hair out of your eyes ’ , gave John ‘ what he called a ‘ natural water wave ’ and stuck me with a net and brown cotton wool in my ears under the dryer . |
| 32 | ‘ Chris , ’ she says , ‘ is helping me to play all the tournaments and providing me with clothes and rackets . |
| 33 | Sturt was about to proceed upon a new expedition into the interior of Australia I beg to send for your perusal a Letter I have lately received from him and from which you will perceive that he has written to Lord Stanley ; as I know no one better fitted for such a purpose than this enterprising and persevering Gentleman I do hope the Government may be disposed to second his views ; perhaps , your Lordship , could obtain and favour me with some information on the subject ; from the manner in which you referred to him in your Letter I am led to believe that some arrangement has already been made ; pray say if such be the case . |
| 34 | No doubt can exist of his Anglophilia , yet he now says that when he heard McQueen tell the story of the ‘ 45 , ‘ I could not refrain from tears , ’ and qualifies his response by discussing a set of feelings not a million miles from sentimentality ; ‘ The very Highland names , or the sound of a bagpipe , will stir my blood , and fill me with a mixture of melancholy and respect for courage ; with pity for an unfortunate and superstitious regard for antiquity , and thoughtless inclination for war ; in short , with a crowd of sensations with which sober rationality has nothing to do . ’ |
| 35 | Harold Evans clearly had seen the List and regaled me with some of its more unlikely names . |
| 36 | His body was rich with the smell of sweat and kahlua and he sent me sprawling and hyper with untold hormones upon the bathroom tiles , but one day , suddenly , actually it was night , parked atop Mulholland Drive with the car windows steamed and the upright stick shift pressing painfully against my lower back and my head banging against the passenger door , I was paralysed by the heaving horny heaviness of him and my climax was full and first — first time ever — but followed by a limpness in my body , dull as the shade of putrid beige , and later I dreamed he had invaded me in sleep and crushed me with his broadness and with pillows , though Crilly it was not suffocation I feared , no , it was something more abstract , more bodily and carnivorous , something akin to nameless reptiles , and it was not so very different from the gun and the windbreaker blowing large and puffy about a stranger 's gut like a tent in my car at Pico Boulevard , and I so sure I would be found dismembered and crotchless and gory and absurd , strewn from limb to limb across the green tweed upholstery , unrecognisable in death , and again the windows steamed , the windows steamed with that hot clenched nameless fist inside me and the glide of cool metal against my neck , and then there were no thoughts , no words in my head , nothing . |
| 37 | But the only thing there was a fragile gecko , which clung splay-footed to the wall and watched me with cloudy eyes . |
| 38 | ‘ But … but why did n't she come and take me with her ? |
| 39 | I was also warned to stay away from the tennis court if anyone was playing , but on one Saturday , a party was in progress and Miss Betty Farr , who must have been in her early twenties , spotted me trying not to be seen , called me over and plied me with cakes and lemonade . |
| 40 | Then you follow me and hit me with a driver and drop away quickly because I 'm going to hit it so fast he wo n't know where the ball is until it 's down the fairway . ’ |
| 41 | It was as if he had turned and hit me with his fist , I could n't hide it . |
| 42 | Margot is always splendid on these occasions ; she took me back to the house and covered me with ice and raw beef : but in spite of all I am a most revolting sight today and shall be for a week or more — lame in one leg , blind in one eye , and with a nose like Cyrano … |
| 43 | Up and up we went and when I could walk no longer he lay me down and covered me with kisses and love bites . |
| 44 | Let that be a lesson to you , Clare , she thought , to lose your temper and try me with your emotional immaturity . |
| 45 | He 's very , very clever and he teaches me sums and helps me with my homework . |
| 46 | We will leave it to Goldberg to disengage the tone from the shit , he wrote , we will leave it to Honeyman and McGough , much good may it do them , though I will no doubt come back to the question before my project is completed , the big glass and the notes to the big glass , these two to be worked on at night , and this freewheeling commentary on both to be written by day , putting down whatever comes into my head after a night 's work , no correction , no revision , whatever comes into my head , the first two to be worked on by artificial light , the strategy clear , this by natural light wherever possible , no strategy at all , the first to be exhibited , the second to be published in the form of sheets in a box , a blue box or a red box , I have not yet made up my mind , in a limited edition , not a luxury edition but a restricted edition , five hundred boxes perhaps or even two hundred and fifty , all that will become clearer in the course of my work on the big glass , of my work on the notes to the big glass , now I have finally embarked on the major project of my life , the climactic project of my life , leading to the end of my life , all will grow clearer , wrote Harsnet , whether to try and call back and destroy all I have done till now or let it be , whether to burn this commentary or let it be , or perhaps leave it to Goldberg to do whatever he wants with , all these things will no doubt be resolved before the work is completed , that is the beauty of being in the middle of a project , that time itself , which had seemed such an enemy before I started , rushing forward and dragging me with it , impervious to my pleas , has suddenly turned friendly , flops down at my feet , licks my ankles , lets me know it is on my side . |
| 47 | Christianity got me young and inculcated me with fear of devils , and with guilt , and with a notion that God spied on me always , and that I was a worthless shit because Jesus had been killed . |
| 48 | He 'd just about made it by the time Private Boyd had strapped my gun belt on and issued me with a plastic face visor which fitted with adjustable straps at the back . |
| 49 | However , all the system manages to do is create 32Kb of High RAM ( D800-DFFF ) , load a few bits and pieces up there and leave me with 550Kb available in Conventional memory . |
| 50 | Mrs Carol Rushton , superintendent physiotherapist has returned form the above and presented me with a report on the course . |
| 51 | Several of the backstage staff , including Annie and Jennifer , had bought a space in the Chassidic Hospital in Jerusalem in my Dad 's name and presented me with the certificate . |
| 52 | Then a little girl stepped forward and presented me with chocolates . |
| 53 | Better watch out now she 's gon na come and get me with this bloody thing ! |
| 54 | And rocked me with soothing comfort |
| 55 | Dad patted me on the head and Mum gives me this little kiss on the cheek and then they went off and left me with this old woman . |
| 56 | One day he took me aside and left me with the designer , a nervous girl who always wore black . |
| 57 | I paid off his debts , but unfortunately for you , he insisted that he 'd pay me back someday and left me with a considerable number of IOUs . |
| 58 | ‘ She changed that overnight and left me with a broken heart — I will never be the same again . |
| 59 | I got on my bike and went back to the house a bit recklessly , shooting through puddles on the path and taking the Jump — a bit on the path where there 's a long downhill on a dune and then a short uphill where it 's easy to leave the ground — at a good forty kilometres per hour , landing with a muddy thump that nearly had me in the whin bushes and left me with a very sore bum , making me want to keep opening my mouth with the feeling of it . |
| 60 | She got what she wanted and left me with the rough end of the stick … . |