Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun] and [verb] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | That would help to show the universal determination of all parties in the House to achieve an answer that will provide a proper future for British agriculture and enable me at least to be able to tell my companions in the negotiations that there are things that matter so much to us that we will sit there until we achieve them , even if it means that we will sit there for many more months to come . |
| 2 | Mala chose to go first , saying that she would check out the landing area for dangerous watchers and warn me if necessary when she sent the pod back up . |
| 3 | He is a keen observer of political life and quizzed me at great length about the impending British general election . |
| 4 | And I got rather fed up with work last night actually cos there 's a load of drunken idiots and chatting me up . |
| 5 | With a firm grip on my hand , she pulled me away from a display of hi-tech gadgets and told me I was not going to be a millionairess . |
| 6 | She smilingly explains that the scanner is a sort of lie-down X-ray and leads me to a narrow bed that slides inch by inch through what looks like a dry-cleaning machine . |
| 7 | She was wearing a burgundy-coloured dress of fine corduroy and reminded me herself of foreign wine . |
| 8 | Then they brought in a couple of supporting interrogators and gave me the third degree . |
| 9 | When I asked him what for he gave a sad sigh and then a sort of bitter grin and looked me in the eye and said , ‘ Sexual harassment . ’ |
| 10 | Being the only Leeds fan in a London inner city school with Alan Clarks famous speach about bring Success to Leeds in 3 Years , is causing me to go into cold shivers and giving me a pessimistic mood about the new season , I can still remember the years of telling school friends at the end of each season that we are rebuilding and that we would come up the next season . |
| 11 | It was a costly venture , of course , since Tonga is a very great distance from almost everywhere ; but a glossy journal owned by an extremely wealthy New Yorker thought that a visit to ‘ The Island Where Time Starts ’ could make an agreeable tale , therefore handed me a sheaf of air tickets and a small sum in hard currency and told me to be on my way . |
| 12 | Little did I know that my brief interlude in the north would stretch to eight years , bring me many more undreamed of adventures at sea in fantastic scenery and make me many very good lifelong friends in the islands of the West . |
| 13 | Then he added that times were hard for small farmers and told me not to be in a hurry to send in the account . ’ |
| 14 | Because I just in my normal sort of intelligent way asked the librarian to come up with lots of cuttings on environmental health and let me have a quick little read , this was probably about twenty to three or something you know I probably needed about three weeks to do it . |
| 15 | I chased one into a warehouse where he managed to double back and attack me from behind . |
| 16 | ‘ Meanwhile , the other watcher races down to Far Field and tells me . |
| 17 | He was rather taken aback but said he would report to head office and let me know about it in the New Year . |