Example sentences of "i [verb] [pron] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
Next pageNo | Sentence |
---|---|
1 | I asked him in for a break . |
2 | She was so obviously upset by the break-up that I asked her out to lunch to cheer her up , and I asked her home because I thought my mother and sister might help her . |
3 | With some wariness I lowered myself on to the front edge of his couch , while form one side more flunkeys appeared , guiding a hover-table laden with delicacies and fancy drinks . |
4 | I lowered myself down off the fence . |
5 | Becky did not flinch from the cold water but took a deep breath as I lowered her down beneath Our Lady 's statue . |
6 | I track him down to the University of Saskatchewan and just catch him at home before he leaves for work . |
7 | I flung myself down on the grass in the sunshine and stared up at the blue . |
8 | I flung myself out of bed and into her arms . |
9 | I flung them on to the bed where she should have been , but was n't . |
10 | Yes , I have I posted it off during the week to My Weekly , because I thought because the it was about a girl in all trouble , I think it |
11 | I chucked it out in the end . |
12 | I do n't know why but I chucked it back in the water . |
13 | The boot blacking came off on my hands and I wiped it off on the side of the bed . |
14 | I made nothing out of it . |
15 | I made one out of a pale wine a ros wine as well , the girls do n't like the red wine , but they like the ros wine |
16 | So I thought , ‘ Ah , I 'll just write it anyway , ’ so I made it up from beginning to end . |
17 | I 'll never know how I made it through to the interval , an hour later , but I do know that I wrenched those lenses out with such force that in the second act I was white-faced , red-eyed , and resembled one of the Brides of Dracula . |
18 | Bob and I made it out of hardboard and Formica … |
19 | I could n't tell you how , but it I , cos you 'd , I do n't want nothing , but when I did , I 'd got ta use my ingenuity to get something that I could get one or two or a dozen or ten off , you know what I mean , and I got ta make it and a lot of times I made it out of wood which was easily er you know treated . |
20 | Mr Alms , who described himself as retired but who runs Investment Chartwork , a firm of ‘ economic forecasters ’ , said : ‘ I suppose you could say I made it out of warped sense of humour . |
21 | I made it back to the car and drove very slowly back to my own apartment . |
22 | I made it back to Stuart Street just before eight . |
23 | Can I throw one back at him ? |
24 | I am taking one final bit of advice before I bat it back to Noel Wilson in the Computing Service , and I imagine we will have reached some conclusion to the game before the end of June . |
25 | Instead , I led him in by secret ways , going round the Hospital of St Katherine , past the Tower , to Custom House on the corner of Thames Street near the Woolquay . |
26 | How I led him out of the garden and into a rough and stony place where naught but thistles and brambles grow ! |
27 | I rub myself up against him . |
28 | so if I bring them down on the floor , you know that if they say maybe naughty |
29 | Suppose I bring it up on a tray in about half an hour . |
30 | I bring it up to date in a solemn |