Example sentences of "[conj] [v-ing] i [prep] " in BNC.
Previous page Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 31 | Of course , for serious devilry the War Bag has to go by itself , and a camera would just be a liability , but I have n't had a real threat for a couple of years , since the time some big boys in the town took to bullying me in Porteneil and ambushing me on the path . |
| 32 | He wrapped me in a warm coat and placing me in the car took me several miles over the moor . |
| 33 | And I would have got it together if I 'd had time had gone out to work instead of for days on end being unemployed and sitting and telling me about Karen . |
| 34 | We sat after lunch on Monday in his room ; or rather he sat chubbily at his desk , living up to his nickname , spooning Hymettus honey out of a jar and telling me of the flesh and fleshpots he had bought himself in Athens ; and I lay on his bed , only half listening . |
| 35 | ‘ When I suggested we just … just put it down to experience , I did n't expect you to start dissecting and analysing everything , and mocking me in the process … ’ |
| 36 | Are you all going out and leaving me in here ? |
| 37 | Having seen me she had also seen that I was alone , and watching me from cover as she undoubtedly was , she would assume I was going to the pool to drink as she had done . |
| 38 | And locking me to you |
| 39 | Unless you intend tying me up and locking me in my room ? ’ |
| 40 | He made sure I knew it was him by flicking on his interior light and waving me towards him . |
| 41 | As 12-ounce cans of vegetables bounce off the side of my car , one of them smashing my rearview mirror and another sailing with surprising accuracy through my open car window and striking me on the shoulder , I decide to call it quits for the night and return in daylight . |
| 42 | People are always niggling me and teasing me for doing too much work , going into too many details for even the smallest conference . |
| 43 | Three of them I recognize , but the whole gang has been grinning at me and clapping me on the back like I was their kid brother pulled out of a scrape . |
| 44 | I was brought rudely back to the real world by Tony 's tripod coming off the top of the pile of clatch ( odds and ends ) piled up above the seat and hitting me on the head as the truck lurched to a halt , diving itself into a drift of deep snow . |
| 45 | They were kicking me and hitting me with a big bar . |
| 46 | ‘ I mean , that old duvet 's bound to cover most of the important parts of my body , and the chances of the pilot on the fire blowing out again and gassing me in my sleep ca n't really be that high , ’ I said . |
| 47 | Why do you add to my miseries by haunting me and confronting me with my sins ? ’ |
| 48 | ‘ I do n't want any kid coming along and beating me in my twilight years . |
| 49 | At once she burst into tears and hugging me for the first time in years ( it seemed ) , cried , ‘ If only I had their faith ! ’ |
| 50 | Andy yelled , throwing the keys down and grabbing me by the collar and slamming me back against the side of the Landie . |
| 51 | Saturday night at the Cauldhame Arms and there I stood as usual at the back of the packed , smoke-filled room at the rear of the hotel , a plastic pint glass in my hand full of lager , my legs braced slightly on the floor in front of me , my back against a wallpapered pillar , and Jamie the dwarf sitting on my shoulders , resting his pint of Heavy on my head now and again and engaging me in conversation . |
| 52 | But facing me in the nets for two winters , he got to know my bowling inside out and by the end of our stay in Cape Town he was hammering me all around the practice area . |
| 53 | So , while committing me to my own class , my politics also has its own critique of working-class life and institutions . |
| 54 | He clasped my hands and bowed rhythmically while greeting me in Arabic . |
| 55 | He glared up at me as though seeing me for the first time . |
| 56 | As well as blinding me by stealing the screen , what did they want me to know ? ’ |
| 57 | I had thought of the Hobbses as shielding me like parents , but the nursery comfort was illusory . |
| 58 | Once the gales have blown themselves out and the depressions have ‘ filled ’ or moved away , we usually get a spell of settled weather when things return to normal.The few days of settled weather allow me to spend some hours fishing offshore for ling and tusk which , as well as providing me with relaxation and sport , is satisfyingly justified in my own mind because it is providing food for the family during the winter to come . |
| 59 | I intended the word liberal to mean ‘ free ’ , not as identifying me with the almost defunct Liberal Party of that epoch . |