Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] be [verb] me [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ So you were using me as a stud , min kaere . |
| 2 | And so you were telling me about the twenty six strike . |
| 3 | Well I do n't know , but she , I said , cos she 's telling me about her coming , only three days up the hospital then she 's got ta go back to her own place because Ian said she 'd never managed , she keeps falling and she said this woman never went to see her once when she was in hospital , yet she 's getting paid it look all the time , and she ought to go to see if there 's anything she wants you see |
| 4 | I 've put in stuff for her from all over , and she always thanks me , not like she was paying me at all . |
| 5 | ‘ You sound as if you 're interviewing me for a job . ’ |
| 6 | If you were protecting me for my own good , she thought , I would be cross with you , but not this cross . |
| 7 | This may seem a minor disagreement , but if you were to question me about Panofsky , I would have to say that the disagreement was just the tip of the iceberg . |
| 8 | His claim that ‘ if they were to put me into a barrel , I would shout glory out through the bunghole ! ’ was not a facetious pose , but the normal expression of an irrepressibly good-humoured Christian . |
| 9 | ‘ I sometimes wonder if he is watching me through it . ’ |
| 10 | Like cos he was asking me about Shane |
| 11 | If I 'm protesting , it 's simply because you 're infuriating me beyond belief right now ! ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Yes , I was down there because they were questioning me about some old clothes . |
| 13 | While she was helping me into yet another nightshirt , we talked . |
| 14 | I do n't think I would have made quite so much impact , however , if it had n't been for the fact that , while they were carrying me round the church yelling , ‘ Aliens ! ’ 'Jesus Christ ! ’ and ‘ The snake cometh ! ’ the roof fell in . |
| 15 | I wondered what Connie Fraser thought about living in a place like that , and whether she was watching me from one of the dozens of balcony windows that faced the front . |
| 16 | But he said , I said it as a joke when she was asking me about my flying and I said I do n't do as much flying as I 'd like to , I 've , I 've got a wife to support and she takes all the money . |
| 17 | My eyes light up at the sight of her even though she 's hitting me about the head , so to speak . |
| 18 | Since we could barely stand up or speak there was little point in dropping in on Ted and Theresia , although perhaps they would n't have noticed much difference in my case , given as they are to ply me with drink . |
| 19 | He said to me once , when he was driving me to school , that there was nothing left to believe in these days . |