Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] i [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | My mother insisted on accompanying me to the tailor to ensure that I got something sensible . |
| 32 | You were the one who refused to go away , the one who insisted on trailing me along the road . |
| 33 | He had a peculiar habit of sliding effortlessly from throwing me a bait to hitting me over the head with it . |
| 34 | But it is only fair to record that the lad who won the " best loser 's " medal broke his wrist on hitting me on the head ( watch this space ) as a flyweight ( special gilt one 1/9d ) , which led to a most embarrassing situation . |
| 35 | Thanks for putting me in the picture , Patrick . ’ |
| 36 | ‘ For putting me in the right frame of mind for facing that rat Silvio . |
| 37 | Or perhaps it was just shock at seeing me without the gag . |
| 38 | Clive also attended , visibly gleeful that he had spared the school any undesirable publicity by unloading me in the nick of time . |
| 39 | It may help me more indirectly by alerting me to the fact that I may be wrong , and forcing me to reason again to double check my conclusion . |
| 40 | The agendas for the above 3 meetings will be issued in due course , but it is not intended that the reports should be circulated again ; spare copies of the reports are available for members , by telephoning me at the undernoted extension . |
| 41 | For myself I do not care , but I do not want armed retainers terrifying my household by arresting me in the dead of night . ’ |
| 42 | P'raps 'e knew 'e was in the wrong by provokin' me in the first place . |
| 43 | The big boys tried to make me feel at home by taking me to the greasy spoon for a pie but what did I care for food as the table rang with drug quips and acerbic one-liners about Danielle Dax from Gavin Martin , James Brown and Danny Kelly . |