Example sentences of "and [verb] i [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was supposed to shoot back up again , hitting my jutting backside en route and pitching me across the stage , but it did n't . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's just that I doubt that your grandmother sent you after me with instructions to — to abduct me and drag me to Rome at any cost . ’ |
| 3 | P : I was coming home from a party with Robert Mitchum drinking cider when one of Shane 's gang came out and stabbed me in the arm … ( goes on for about ten more pages — Freudian Ed ) |
| 4 | He smiled too , and stabbed me in the gut with the gun-barrel hard enough to make me suck in my breath . |
| 5 | Ryan stopped and clapped me on the shoulder . |
| 6 | They laughed and clapped me on the back and handed the container round the circle again . |
| 7 | Ralemberg smiled , sheathed his dagger and clapped me on the shoulder . |
| 8 | He laughed and clapped me on the shoulder . |
| 9 | Benjamin grinned and clapped me on the shoulder . |
| 10 | They laughed and clapped me on the shoulder . |
| 11 | Quigley , with a short , convulsive movement that was halfway between a bow and a twitch , took my hand and led me towards her . |
| 12 | He grasped my elbow and led me through the hallway and into a long room knocked through the whole length of the house . |
| 13 | Then the old lady took me firmly by the arm and led me into the bathroom . |
| 14 | ‘ The warder came and told me to dress and led me to an officer of the court , ’ the small , self-effacing lawyer recalled in an interview on Saturday . |
| 15 | And her white Reeboks screeched at the marble as she turned and led me to the waiting forms . |
| 16 | She frowned for a moment , then picked up my hand and led me to the window . |
| 17 | But he raised his left hand again , this time to silence me ; took my arm and led me to the edge of the colonnade . |
| 18 | They will understand me too quickly ; they will turn my own generosity against me and despise me for the lovers I took ; and they will cast me as the woman who briefly threatened to interfere with the writing of the books which they have enjoyed reading . |
| 19 | I was so rattled I glanced round to make sure this was n't a signal for an army of bunnies like this Dobermann of a beast to come up from behind and tear me to shreds . |
| 20 | But Jim insisted , insisted that I bought him a pint and asked me to caddie for him the following week at St Anne 's . |
| 21 | At noon Sir Michael Adeane rang up and asked me to be at the Palace at 2 o'clock . |
| 22 | A surly man stepped from a trailer doorway and asked me for money . |
| 23 | If you came in now and asked me for a pound of apples , well in a way I would n't know a stranger whether they like them under-ripe , ripe or just ready for eating . |
| 24 | ‘ Be there — or you 'll really get fucked , ’ he hissed , jabbing a manicured index finger at my face and transfixing me with lifeless black eyes . |
| 25 | One of my colleagues , no doubt swayed by the heat of the discussion , turned on me sitting in my short-sleeved uniform shirt , and rebuked me with the warning that ‘ in my force , you 'd be disciplined for mutilating police property … |
| 26 | Syl 's mother disapproved of this most bitterly and rebuked me for waste . |
| 27 | He often says unkind things to me , blaming me for the break-up of our marriage and accusing me of being a useless wife . |
| 28 | She leaned in and pecked me on the lips . |
| 29 | I just do n't see how you can kiss and cuddle me in the department when nothing at all is going on between us , and then just as soon as there is , you switch it all off like a blasted tap ! ’ |
| 30 | I know my father would raise a terrific stink if I told him the Headmistress had grabbed me by the hair and slung me over the playground fence . ’ |