Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [vb past] i [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I want to take you through the thinking that led me to that conclusion , and then to concentrate on one of the keys to securing that future — the whole question of advancing the cause of children 's books . |
| 2 | When I think of love or beauty or gardens , the images that moved me in my everyday life appear again and I feel the same sensations as when I first found them . |
| 3 | It was probably the idea of having to hang on for no more than two months that convinced me of the value of these silly prophesies , but I was a true believer . |
| 4 | It may have been the horse that roused me from my sleep . |
| 5 | I turned to go into the house , made with great difficulty the three or four steps that separated me from my room , and felt my arms and legs burning , also my body . |
| 6 | They had such nice manners and treated me like one of their own , so I reckon I was one of the lucky ones . |
| 7 | Half way up , Springsteen shot through his legs and passed me at about Mach 5 , doing a handbrake turn at the bottom of the stairs and heading for the back door . |
| 8 | Nevil choked me until I almost passed out , then he lifted me out of the driver 's seat and bundled me into the back of Armstrong , hitting me on the back of the neck with what could have been an anvil but was probably his fist . |
| 9 | And she reeled off several names and exact addresses and sent me on my way : Kerr ( ‘ Everyone is related to Kerrs ’ ) , MacMillan , Mackinnon , Lowe . |
| 10 | I got on my bike and went back to the house a bit recklessly , shooting through puddles on the path and taking the Jump — a bit on the path where there 's a long downhill on a dune and then a short uphill where it 's easy to leave the ground — at a good forty kilometres per hour , landing with a muddy thump that nearly had me in the whin bushes and left me with a very sore bum , making me want to keep opening my mouth with the feeling of it . |
| 11 | He took me in his mouth and carried me to his master . |
| 12 | A surly man stepped from a trailer doorway and asked me for money . |
| 13 | He 's been out the car and locked me in it . |
| 14 | When he looked up and turned to greet me Gyggle 's real profile showed the beard off to even greater effect and teased me with its diversity . |
| 15 | A murdering Fascist , ’ I cried and Richard took me gently by the shoulders and pushed me towards the door . |
| 16 | Welford said : ‘ He grabbed me by the lapels and cuffed me across the face , but I shielded myself from the rest of his blows . ’ |
| 17 | Jack Mason appeared at the players ' entrance and greeted me in his usual jovial way . |
| 18 | Ken met me at the entrance and guided me into a side room . |
| 19 | Fritz jumped down from his horse and lifted me in his arms . |
| 20 | During the summer and early autumn she helped me with Government aid and guided me in the direction of private aid . |
| 21 | Severed as I was from Father and from Helmut , living in a foreign country , was it the fear of further severance that kept me in this unequal concurrence ? |
| 22 | I detest the armoured , air-conditioned truck that deprived me of my final opportunity to desecrate the holy relic that is ‘ Guernica ’ . |
| 23 | That , mixed with the mule 's contribution , produced an atmosphere in the cabin that stood me in good stead for the rest of my flying career . |
| 24 | I thought about that scent ; there was something about it , something extra besides the smell that reminded me of Marcus 's bathroom . |
| 25 | And , perhaps , with this act of treachery I can finally buy my freedom from the burden of buried horror that bound me to Andy twenty years ago , so that — dispossessed of that trespass — I 'm left free to betray him again , now . |
| 26 | It needs to be done now and it 's going to cost us more if we leave it till later , on that point I ca n't agree with your budget , so , I 'm afraid , it 's roads that put me against it . |
| 27 | And when I arrived in Lanyon 's house , I took the dose of the drug that returned me to my normal appearance . |
| 28 | The WS286 was a nice machine that served me until September last year when , sadly , I had to replace it to make more room on my desk . |
| 29 | I had a conversation the other day with Con that reminded me of what I used to be , before I got corrupted by this place . |
| 30 | It was then that I began to discover the fate that awaited me as a female . |