Example sentences of "[verb] i [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He probably wants to hit me again . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Whether he wanted to be hurt and suffer , or an excuse to hit me back , I do n't know , but I 'm sure he wanted me to hit him . |
| 4 | I did n't expect it to hit me quite so hard , but when I think about it it 's because I 'm so bloody sad that the last fourteen years were spent in dying not in living . |
| 5 | Jack and two others who had witnessed the performance , found me and piloted me back to the warmth and safety of the ski-cabin . |
| 6 | ‘ You 've frightened me stiff , ’ I said frankly . |
| 7 | And then Boy cut back to the man on the bed , who was saying ( actually it was a different man in a different room , Boy realised ; the sofa and the quilted nylon counterpane were in a different colour in this room , though the man sitting there looked just like the last one ) , the man was saying I like your shoes , please take off your shoes ; and Boy cut backwards and forwards between this man and the politician beginning to lose his self-control and saying I would just ask people to forgive me really and to forgive my wife as well . |
| 8 | What irritates me most about him is his way of speaking . |
| 9 | In fact , he irritates me intensely sometimes . |
| 10 | Sometimes he irritates me so much that I could scream at him . |
| 11 | ‘ Nothing irritates me more than righteous indignation , ’ he said lightly . |
| 12 | I had visited the apartment at least a dozen times , but I still found the fact of a lift opening directly into a living room incredibly impressive ; a proof of wealth as convincing as the possession of gold taps or of mink rugs or of the girl who waited to greet me just beyond the lift doors . |
| 13 | Erm well , you have n't heard me yet . |
| 14 | Below , on the terrace , Marie Claire had heard me open the windows . |
| 15 | You 've heard me often already chairman on this point . |
| 16 | ‘ On the contrary , she understands me very well and I 'm still free to play chess . ’ |
| 17 | Leslie had taught me how to live , and the war how to endure . |
| 18 | The last year has taught me how little I really knew about what goes on behind the wrought-iron gates of Buckingham Palace and the red brick walls of Kensington Palace . |
| 19 | I decided to work with the market women 's organization , ASUTRAMES , because my mother had a market stall and I would help her , and because the community had taught me how important it was to claim our rights . |
| 20 | But my father had taught me how to make them on my arm , fox-bites . |
| 21 | ( At that time nobody had taught me how to preserve them to keep as specimens . |
| 22 | My father , a policeman , had taught me how to do this years before . |
| 23 | Erm , I found out today , that I did n't realise she 'd actually passed a c , a beautician 's course , so I do n't know why she 's taught me out of all , has n't taught me how to go on . |
| 24 | I know I 've made a lot of mistakes and there are probably a lot of things I should be sorry about but I would n't change my life , I would make the same mistakes because they 've taught me so much . |
| 25 | Erm , I found out today , that I did n't realise she 'd actually passed a c , a beautician 's course , so I do n't know why she 's taught me out of all , has n't taught me how to go on . |
| 26 | ‘ At first he would get angry and only push me around . |
| 27 | ‘ But one moment you hold me , the next you push me away . ’ |
| 28 | push me away . |
| 29 | Listen to me , I goes , if you push me again I 'll grab your tit and pull it off . |
| 30 | You pushed it aside dear , like you push me aside |