Example sentences of "[noun pl] [v-ing] me " in BNC.
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| 31 | I 've written about this before and I expect I 'll write about it again , because I get more frustrated knitters questioning me about this than almost anything else . |
| 32 | Was it the monstrous , heaving power of the waters confronting me , or was it my conscious awareness of the dead of a great city . |
| 33 | Got all my missiles following me . |
| 34 | Willie pulls himself up the stairs reminding me of an elderly praying mantis . |
| 35 | I was n't used to uniforms calling me ‘ sir ’ . |
| 36 | When I arrived at Althorp the housekeeper , Joyce Cole , told me that she had orders banning me from touching anything in the house . |
| 37 | Filings of biscuity paper wedge under my fingernails causing me real pain . |
| 38 | Now as I watch the progress of the plague , The friends surrounding me fall sick , grow thin , And drop away . |
| 39 | But my arms round you , your arms holding me , and the shivering stops and welds us still and close and still closer . |
| 40 | I turned away , I remember , so that Enid should not see my face , and thought of his arms holding me , and his hands in my hair and his mouth … oh , such a melting , a melting in my stomach . |
| 41 | However , with so many friends wishing me well , sending flowers , gifts , letters , cards and asking after my welfare , getting better and getting on with life has been my priority . |
| 42 | I 'm not used to doctors asking me if I want something else ! |
| 43 | They searched my whole flat before they took me , looking for things like Durex , and to see whether I kept any books of accounts , of girls giving me money , all this sort of thing . |
| 44 | And it was no comfort having old ladies telling me how they wished they had naturally curly hair . |
| 45 | My local office has plenty of leaflets telling me about wonderful things like savings schemes and child benefit , but rarely stocks the mysterious forms that are supposed to accompany them . |
| 46 | Unfortunately after negotiating the long stretch of locks and leaving this unique western end of the Canal , a thick low fog descended and blotted out our fantastic surroundings leaving me to navigate by radar the tortuous bends of the channel and through the shallows of Loch Oich . |
| 47 | Golden lit windows beckoning me , |
| 48 | I 'm sure I do n't want his puny little creatures visiting me . |
| 49 | Without the spectators cheering me on I do n't think I could have had such a good race . |
| 50 | ‘ Farmer Oak , ’ she called breathlessly , ‘ I want to say — my aunt made a mistake when she told you I had a lot of young men courting me . |
| 51 | Looking back on the decision a few years later , he interpreted it in these terms : " What I wanted was some counterweight to my changeable and restless inclinations , a science that could be pursued with cool impartiality , with cold logic , with regular work , without its results touching me at all deeply . " |
| 52 | His beastly gloating hands touching me . |
| 53 | Did n't you hear a couple of the men warning me to be careful on the way home and not start any arguments with you ? ’ |
| 54 | Why are these men forcing me to do this ? |
| 55 | The routine of life as a young mother was interrupted occasionally by visits from the police informing me that my Mother had taken an overdose and was in hospital being ‘ pumped-out ’ . |
| 56 | I saw nothing but her deep brown legs as she knelt beside me , felt nothing but her strong hands kneading me like dough . |
| 57 | Er , the the the er er the fax in the first instance has been sent by a back bench member of this house who is not a minister , but I may tell the honourable gentleman that I get all sorts of things from mail shots inviting me to all er manner of functions , all of which find their way into the waste paper basket . |
| 58 | All the sweets spoiling me ! even done the washing up now in n it ? |
| 59 | statistically , I get far more phone calls from record companies , lawyers and very occasionally from publishers telling me about a new act they have just signed . |
| 60 | Dreadful nightmares , when I finally got off to sleep , of men attacking me — like that man who had to cut women on their arms before he could find them desirable . |