Example sentences of "[verb] i [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps there was someone behind me who was just about to hit me over the head . |
| 2 | ‘ Do n't worry … you can sleep alone — I can take a hint that I 'm not wanted without you having to hit me over the head with it , ’ he finished bitterly . |
| 3 | They were prepared to hit me on the head , were n't they ? ’ |
| 4 | I experienced a moment of complete terror in which my mind raced — I had been discovered after all ; it was obvious that I had a limp ; everyone could see it ; they 'd seen it all along and had chosen this moment to hit me with it , my weakest moment … |
| 5 | After all this high-profile imagery I had fully expected the Serenade to hit me with a physical force akin to Karajan 's classic BPO digital remake ( DG ) . |
| 6 | For a moment , I thought he was going to hit me with the shoe ; then he dropped it on the floor and began to pull at my clothes . |
| 7 | Anyway today we had the scene where Matt had to hit me with the paddle sort of semi-accidentally . |
| 8 | He grabbed the crowbar and went to hit me with it . |
| 9 | If you want to hit me across the airport , I 'll understand , OK , but I 'm staying with Alejandro . |
| 10 | He could n't have rushed passed me into the bedroom , seized the bottle as a convenient weapon — he could n't have known it was there , anyway — and then dashed back out to hit me before dragging me … do you see what I 'm saying ? ’ |
| 11 | That had frightened me at first but now I thought the Star Zoo was wonderful . |
| 12 | I must ask those who are more familiar with the sciences to forgive me for any passages where they feel I might be guilty of over simplification . |
| 13 | Kate , you 've got an awful lot to forgive me for , have n't you ? ’ |
| 14 | I ask them to forgive me for not taking interventions . |
| 15 | ‘ Are you never going to forgive me for that ? ’ he queried , and there was such bone-melting charm in him then that Fabia was glad that she was sitting down . |
| 16 | In terms of a planning process Anne was talking about , you 'll have to forgive me for being relatively new to Oxfordshire and coming from an area where we had a planning system which was largely the one I was describing , and the planning role that I saw I wanted to develop was very much already mentioned which was actually going round to small groups of people , to the local caring groups on a much more informal basis , and getting their contribution about that and then feeding it back into the system , which you say is there in a sense . |
| 17 | What irritates me about going shopping in any supermarket is having to bag my own goods up . |
| 18 | What irritates me about Vienna is a certain not-quite-definable smugness , a feeling that somehow this place feels itself to be the centre . |
| 19 | And what irritates me about them more than anything is the artificial device that actors somehow compete one with the other for the prize . |
| 20 | And he irritates me by repeating things over and over again . ’ |
| 21 | I was so rattled I glanced round to make sure this was n't a signal for an army of bunnies like this Dobermann of a beast to come up from behind and tear me to shreds . |
| 22 | When I visit my home city of Manchester , or travel to London , New Age-types seem to greet me in every other conversation . |
| 23 | All the same I felt a twinge of unease as he came to greet me in the bar of the Atlantic Hotel in Hamburg , an admiral now and much older , hobbling a little and holding a stick . |
| 24 | But if I had called out you would then have heard me across the stones . |
| 25 | ‘ You might have heard me on the radio , ’ she said . |
| 26 | ‘ You have explained me to myself , Harry , ’ he said slowly . |
| 27 | Hard experience has taught me to be selective in my procrastination . |
| 28 | that was taught me by my grandmother , Annie Scanlon . |
| 29 | waves push me to the side |
| 30 | What do you want now , ah , that 's it push me over you are n't half cheeky , no wonder Mary tells me off the way I treat ya , ah ? |