Example sentences of "[to-vb] i [adv] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To see me too in my deliberate vanishing . |
| 2 | He used to swing me up onto his shoulders and carry me round … ’ |
| 3 | I have the memories of the last time we loved to carry me through to my grave . |
| 4 | He pulled me to my feet , and flung his arms around me and squeezed me as if he wanted to gather me right into himself , never let me go , and we stayed like that for a long time , not speaking , rocking to and fro . |
| 5 | ‘ Are you trying to write me out of your life ? ’ |
| 6 | I went over to Sheridan to ask him to be quiet and he grabbed my wrist and tried to pull me on to his lap , and I overbalanced and fell and hit the table hard where he was sitting , and I caught the cloth somehow and pulled it with me and everything on it landed on the floor . |
| 7 | I had gone too far and experienced too much , I needed to slow down , to get back to the small things , the practical things , to measuring and cutting and fixing , and it was with relief that I noticed that daylight had begun to invade the room , I kept quite still , I held the glass firmly in my gaze , gradually the elements already worked on began to emerge , some more clearly than others , some in outline only and some only when they impeded the free flow of light through the glass , until the sun came up and was reflected back from the windows of the house opposite and I could sit and look at the glass and think back through the work and the mistakes and the few successes , and sense again with that sickening feeling in the pit of the stomach that the whole of the right hand side of the lower panel was still a mess , nothing there had been resolved , but then I drew back from that , though it kept trying to pull me back to itself , and concentrated on what was beginning to work , on the left hand areas both top and bottom and on the elegance of the frame and the joy of seeing the bare walls and the wainscoting appear through the empty areas , and as I moved round so different parts of the room appeared and the relation of the surface of the glass to what lay behind changed , precision and fluidity , precision and fluidity , he wrote , choice and chance , not choice alone and chance alone but the two together , that is why delay , not stoppage and not flow but delay , delay in glass , he wrote , as when the plane is late and you should have been gone , have already arrived perhaps , but you are still there , or the sprinter beats the gun and the whole field is called back , the race could have been over but it has not yet started . |
| 8 | All right , we 'll give it another day or two , but I 'm seeing you back home now , and do n't try to talk me out of it . |
| 9 | I had rehearsed all the routine for the South America job , then I just got a bit panicky ; the captain tried to talk me back into it . |
| 10 | And er I got involved on national registration and er , on one occasion , we were working , we 'd got a deadline and we were working through the weekend , and my wife came to pick me up at what she thought was a reasonable time , at one o'clock on Saturday , found she was given a cup of tea and set to work , and we finished , going home about midnight . . |
| 11 | I ca n't carry equipment for a youth club on my bicycle , so Paul used to pick me up in his car . ’ |
| 12 | Probably the same dislike of children led her to desert me immediately after my birth , and also caused her only to return on that one , fateful occasion when she was at least partly responsible for my little accident . |
| 13 | ‘ Then I asked a girl friend to fix me up with someone . |
| 14 | ‘ I wo n't ask you to let me live with you , Angel , because I have no right to ! |
| 15 | For nearly two years , Shanti was reluctant to let me out of her sight , and would follow me from room to room , into the bathroom , wherever it might be . |
| 16 | She added , ‘ I 'm sure it 's only because of safety in the smallest possible number , only his lawyers and my mother 's father have the address , aside from me , and I only have it because they did n't like to leave me here without one . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ But in this case you decided it would be a good idea to leave me entirely in her more than capable hands ? ’ |
| 18 | In the lobby of that hotel , on the following evening , I was to meet a Mrs Knelle , the friend of an English friend , and she was going to put me up at her house in the country . |
| 19 | ‘ You will have to put me out of your mind , ’ she said quietly . |
| 20 | So you 'll have to count me out of your calculations , I 'm afraid . |
| 21 | I was seething , yes , but not enough to keep me away from you . |
| 22 | The truth is , she does not seem to wish to see me and will think of every excuse to keep me out of her presence . |
| 23 | ‘ He was trying to keep me out of it . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ In the cruel manner in which she tried to prise me out of my home . ’ |
| 25 | So when my father had to leave in the summer he thought fit to send me here to my lord Isambard , to keep me from under my brother 's feet until Isabel 's safely wed . |
| 26 | It nearly killed them to acknowledge my existence and they only spoke in monosyllables when I was present , but the babble of sound which broke out every time I went out and closed the door behind me was enough to make me want to go rushing straight to Miss Malley to beg her to send me back to my friends . |
| 27 | So there 's absolutely no need to feel you 've got to invite me out with you ! ’ |
| 28 | They tried to lift me out of my depression . |
| 29 | But Ngugi managed to lift me out of my armchair and place me inside his imaginary village of Ilmorog . |
| 30 | I promised myself I would n't come near you again unless you wanted me to , that the ball would always be in your court , and that if you chose to kick me out of your life for good , then I 'd respect that wish , even if it 'd half kill me to do so . |