Example sentences of "i [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That same day he told me , as if he were giving me a magnificent present , that he thought he could pull strings and have me posted with him . |
| 2 | I feared that , but I must always have wanted it too , because when you had me dismissed from that job — Oh , I hated that , I hated not being able to see you any more , but I thought it was you I hated . |
| 3 | However they might have trouble finding adjectives to do these performances justice : his breathtaking virtuosity , which takes appalling difficulties of the music in its stride , at times had me bogeared in admiration . |
| 4 | Anna had me educated at home as she herself had been and Constanza . |
| 5 | So if you want to get me fined for talking you 're in the wrong place . ’ |
| 6 | Just after the end of our period , in the late 1150s , the celebrated intellectual and letter writer John of Salisbury recounted his travels : ‘ ten times have I crossed the chain of the Alps since I left England first ; twice have I travelled through Apulia ; I have done business often in the Roman court on behalf of my superiors and friends ; and on a variety of counts I have traversed England , and France too , many times . ’ |
| 7 | And er so that 's er I stopped on six months , being an orderly , because I could n't go back into tailoring , obviously , because er it might have aggravated it all again . |
| 8 | In those days I think I must have regarded many of the people dotted about my landscape more as bushes than as the human beings I now see them to have been : some dull and uninteresting like laurel bushes ; some like lavender sweetly scented ; some thorny , to be avoided ; and then rose bushes , gooseberry bushes , fuchsia bushes — but all just part of the scenery , and I withdrawn from them into my dreams . |
| 9 | Hamilton claimed one shot down , probably the aircraft ( J9+JH ) of Ill/St.G I flown by Ofhr . |
| 10 | Hamilton was scrambled soon after midnight , still wearing his pyjamas , and soon spotted a Ju87 , an aircraft of 9/St.G I flown by Lt. Werner Zühlke , which he attacked and claimed shot down . |
| 11 | Nor have I referred to the minor changes made to the 1987 regulations in 1990 and 1991 , which have already been applied in the accounts of most societies and will be familiar to their preparers and auditors by now . |
| 12 | Thus was I blinded to the fact that he is , in fact , the quintessential heavy metal arsehole . |
| 13 | First , though , whose kitchen table am I propped against with such enervating thoughts ? |
| 14 | Thus was I punished for wanting to go to these places , which I knew to be prisons for God . |
| 15 | Have n't I arranged with my father to have the time off ? |
| 16 | Am I forgiven for last night ? ’ |
| 17 | Nor was I frightened of Wolsey 's familiar , Doctor Agrippa , the black magician with his cherubic face and that strange perfumed smell which always accompanied him . |
| 18 | Oft have I heard of you , my Lord Berowne , |
| 19 | Johnny 's first words to me were : ‘ You 're a good broadcaster , why have n't I heard of you ? ’ ’ |
| 20 | Had n't I heard of |
| 21 | If it is that I do not , on the grounds that had I heard about the invitation my justification would have been defeated , you have a duty to give some account of why the ( unknown to me ) truth that my wife has refused the invitation does not somehow redress the balance . |
| 22 | Yes now where have I heard about those ? |
| 23 | Or have I fallen into the trap of seeing a dozen cases of doubt and declaring a universal epidemic ? |
| 24 | ‘ Have I stumbled on some dark and desperate secret ? ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Or have I stumbled on the trials of the Regiment 's new secret weapon ? |
| 26 | Am I committed to consistent communication about the way we handle our finances , giving , earning , spending and saving ? |
| 27 | ‘ Am I exonerated from being a wimp ? ’ |
| 28 | Apparently not only had I collapsed on stage last night , but I was having intravenous chemotherapy between shows , sobbing and grimacing in agony in my dressing room . |
| 29 | This is the Mediterranean so why am I squeezed into this number ? |
| 30 | There 's j I looked in the phone book , there is only |