Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] me [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bloom got on to me and said he had received a letter from this young . |
| 2 | It is a relief to me to take up this pen and sit at a table and endeavour to sort out what I feel pressing in upon me and to know that if sense can be made of it you will make it . |
| 3 | He peered down at me and scratched his head as he replaced his cap on his bald head . |
| 4 | But you 'd do better to come down with me and make the long trip round . ’ |
| 5 | I give a little laugh and Peter looks over at me and hits it again , harder this time . |
| 6 | I ask him if he 'll tell me the story again , but he just looks over at me and shakes his head . |
| 7 | I do n't mention it at dinner parties or evening drinks because people shift away from me or say ’ I must circulate ’ . |
| 8 | She caught up with me and took me along to a paddock to see her horse . |
| 9 | Several times it 's happened to me that someone has come up to me and asked if I 've ever done a play . |
| 10 | ‘ Someone was supposed to have come up to me and said , ‘ Did n't you know that there are many starving people in Ethiopia ? ’ to which I 'm supposed to have said , ‘ Yeah . |
| 11 | ‘ Over the years hundreds of people have come up to me and said how they remember that night for my one-handed pots . |
| 12 | Oh , I was n't and erm , the next thing I know I 've nearly fucking been bowled over , sort of the bags in fucking look behind me , so those two fucking bought the bags back down fucking legs and I 've just caught this like running round another , another thing , I thought oh fucking little kid , the next thing I know there 's another one gone pass me like , taken the bags , the handles out of the plastic bags , fucking and it was a girl that was going first this time , so I and sure enough there was a little fucking brat boy coming again , so I just went flying he sort of looked up at me and rubbed his eye like that and carried on running after the . |
| 13 | Mr Farraday , however , simply looked up at me and said : ‘ I beg your pardon , Stevens ? ’ |
| 14 | The powerful motor roared into life and the car moved smoothly past me and headed for town . |
| 15 | And he said he 's telling him point blank that he 's , if there 's any problems with invoices or anything , you have to deal with Andrew , he has to come back to me and deal with me direct ! |
| 16 | He peered closer at me and asked what an Englishman was doing in Paris . |
| 17 | ‘ He got away from me and came for me with his fists . |
| 18 | In any case , Mr Farraday seized the opportunity to grin broadly at me and say with some deliberation : |
| 19 | We all four ducked , there was a vivid white flash , the road on which I was crouching split in several directions , deep black crevices , then stuff came down on me and numbed my back and head . |
| 20 | I was called away one morning , somebody came along to me and said will you come along to Street , there 's a chap playing up , old Harry , he 's trying to build a shed or something and it 's two o'clock in the morning , none of us can sleep , do come along with me . |
| 21 | when we us the last two and that one exploded on me I had this and it goes and exploded all over me and went over |
| 22 | ‘ Then , at the end of the reception , Larry came over to me and asked what I had said to the bride 's father . |
| 23 | No erm first became he came over to me and started |
| 24 | She came over to me and rested her hands on my shoulders . |
| 25 | I remembered our family friend chalk-haired Auntie Irene , Great World Traveller , whose suitcase had been slashed in Cuzco , looking up at me and saying , ‘ Oh , but they wo n't try anything with you . |
| 26 | In his speech , Charles praised my ‘ sterling contribution ’ to the school and shortly after it Paul came up to me and made the touching suggestion that I should give some classes in the summer term — if I was still free . |
| 27 | Cos he came up to me and goes |
| 28 | ‘ A little girl came up to me and said , ‘ Oh … |
| 29 | I think he 'd had a stroke by then , but he came up to me and said very quietly , ‘ How 's your comical friend then ? ’ |
| 30 | At the end of the day James Jones came up to me and said : ‘ What 's your name ? ’ |