Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] i [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For nothing I do , no emergency procedure I try , frees me from wherever I 'm pinned down , or gets me back inside her . |
| 2 | Each time a guard arrived , either with food or to let me out to the lavatory , I asked for a book , and each time he said ‘ Yes ’ and did n't bring one . |
| 3 | An ‘ undred years ago they would ‘ ave ‘ anged me on the spot or sent me off to Australia , so I ca n't complain . |
| 4 | He put my felonious body in the stocks of his arm and led me off in the direction of what passed for a garden at Sussex , a series of brick-edged parallelograms that could n't have looked more artificial if they had been planted with cathode-ray tubes , instead of hardy perennials . |
| 5 | ‘ Are you all right , darling ? ’ he asked , and led me along to my son 's house ! |
| 6 | And she was all right because when I got back here , she drove up and asked me over for coffee . |
| 7 | ‘ He rang me up that same evening and asked me out for a drink . ’ |
| 8 | Do n't try and make me out to be some kind of embittered nut compensating for an unsatisfactory sex-life . ’ |
| 9 | They 're erm , I erm , said goodbye come and pick me up by the school . |
| 10 | I could see the beginning of cloud formations in the far west that looked as though they might thicken up and , since I wanted to get some shots of the Cove while the light was still good , I set off by Water Sinks , where the water from the Tarn sinks and does n't reappear again until some miles down the valley at Aire Head , and followed the footpath that would take me west of Watlowes dry valley and bring me down to the Cove by the pasture land above the Pennine Way . |
| 11 | Jack and two others who had witnessed the performance , found me and piloted me back to the warmth and safety of the ski-cabin . |
| 12 | Please guide my spirit and raise me up from depths of misery , so that my soul may be carried through your wisdom and may struggle fearlessly upwards in fiery flight . |
| 13 | He grips my arms and dumps me back on the pew . |
| 14 | Well , the old chap come and got me out of school that morning to take this horse to Norwich . |
| 15 | First time I went to Norwich alone , he come up to school and got me out at half past nine in the morning . |
| 16 | Did a year and a half there and then er promoted me and moved me back to Newark . |
| 17 | ‘ You 're the fourteenth person who 's worked out I 'm staying with Lucy and phoned me up with crazy stories about Liam . |
| 18 | So then I began to be really pretty busy with running the office and then keeping my home , but I 'd got a husband who was very , very , handy and helped me out in the home you know . |
| 19 | The old gentleman who was the owner of the shop encouraged me and helped me along into the business . |
| 20 | Signe stood behind me and helped me off with my coat . |
| 21 | And they 're real dangerous too — they might jump onto the pavement and swallow me up with their big eyes . |
| 22 | If they want to take it all away in the end and match me up with that slimy halfwit , why then take me up to the mountain and show me the world ? |
| 23 | McLaren 's conviction that Branson wanted revenge , to find a way to seize control of the Pistols for good , ‘ and cut me off at the pass ’ , now became an obsession . |
| 24 | He asked if I was in trouble and drove me back to the car park , where he produced a tow-rope . |
| 25 | Then she got a brand new Ford Fiesta out of the garage and drove me back to where I 'd left Armstrong in Leytonstone . |
| 26 | He was n't very pleased with me , and told me off for not saying where I 'd moved to . |
| 27 | And if anyone came up and told me off for sleeping on the pavement I 'd say I was the King of England and I can sleep anywhere I like . |
| 28 | He rattled a huge ring of keys and let me out of the cell . |
| 29 | He ate it in two bites , like a dog , and put me back on the gravestone . |
| 30 | The boy carried me in my travelling box , and put me down on the beach , while he looked for birds ' eggs among the rocks . |