Example sentences of "[vb past] i [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jack and two others who had witnessed the performance , found me and piloted me back to the warmth and safety of the ski-cabin . |
| 2 | The crane then lowered me down towards the two men underneath me who shouted for me to put my arms out so that they could grab me . |
| 3 | Then , said he , ‘ Would the comrade who interrupted me please stand up ! ’ |
| 4 | Now you d you went and interrupted me there and , and I 've forgotten what I was saying which was right . |
| 5 | ‘ Manipulated me here ? ’ |
| 6 | ‘ They said it would be all right if I had the serial numbers but I do n't think they expected me back , ’ she said . |
| 7 | He probed me psychologically , whilst laying siege with the battering ram of his biro to the airy battlements of the beard . |
| 8 | Aye , Alan met me here |
| 9 | ‘ I told him I was training with Guisborough that evening , so he met me up there and a deal was sorted out . |
| 10 | Saturday , 13th : Arrived at Delhi airport over two hours late , at 06.30. met me personally at the barrier and eased me through the arrival formalities . |
| 11 | On another occasion , a woman cousin met me there and we stood talking , ‘ Who was that woman you were talking to ? ’ |
| 12 | Before you met me there , that is ? ’ |
| 13 | His elbows stuck out through holes in a filthy jersey , his shorts were similarly ragged , but what appalled me most was the sour smell of his unwashed little body . |
| 14 | And there was a lot of space between the hut and the door and the wind took me and flung me right up against the tank and I went down to the ground and crawled on me hands and knees . |
| 15 | ‘ Now , ’ he whispered confidentially , ‘ the thing to remember is that the Greek Orthodox priest is the one on the left with the beard , ’ and with that flung me determinedly into my seat . |
| 16 | You took my youth , my innocence — everything I had ! — and then you flung me aside when you knew I could give you nothing … and you left me nothing ! ’ |
| 17 | He kicked it open and flung me down the three steps into the street . |
| 18 | Well she collared me yesterday , unfortunately , so I 've got ta do it until |
| 19 | At a conference at Oxford in December 1989 , Professor Randolph Quirk , the famous linguist , attacked me fiercely for including material like this , which could be easily misrepresented by the press . |
| 20 | Then he said to Rain : ‘ He attacked me only with words . ’ |
| 21 | So when I was ushered into his consulting room , it was his welfare that concerned me as much as my own . |
| 22 | I was also interested in the possible help for tension , worry and lowering my blood pressure which had lately begun to rise and which concerned me greatly . |
| 23 | It concerned me deeply that the men going back to Burma should have a smattering of the language , especially those who would go in with the Wingate levies into occupied Burma . |
| 24 | That choked me up . |
| 25 | ‘ I 've never laid eyes on 'em before , ’ he replied , ‘ but I 'll never ferget the bloke who laid me out . |
| 26 | It means some bastard not only laid me out cold , and stuck me face-down in the Comer , but even rammed me well down into the mud with a foot in the small of my back to make dead sure of me , before he lit out and left me there to drown . ’ |
| 27 | Then laid me gently in bed . |
| 28 | ‘ When I was at drama school , they paired me off with a lovely actor who was only five foot eight and we had to play husband and wife ! |
| 29 | I joined the Medjays in the south , and served at Napata , before they posted me here . ’ |
| 30 | If he rode me over to Romorantin to catch the early train to Paris , would I mind going out to Reine for him ? |