Example sentences of "to the [noun sg] [conj] [verb] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | My worst fear was that one day she would come to the forge and see me working as a common blacksmith , with black face and hands . |
| 2 | The memory of Nancy brings me back to the question that occupied me so much , what was it about the Centre that could transform misery , bitterness and hatred into love and hope , and possibly even happiness , all in the space of fourteen days ? |
| 3 | The loss of this old lady 's vote was cancelled out a few streets further on , by a young chap who came to the door and told me he was a soldier . |
| 4 | Someone drove it right to the door and charged me nothing . |
| 5 | The day they come to the door and denounce me in fluent Anglo-Saxon for a Scarlet Woman , then I 'll think about it . ’ |
| 6 | Come over to the lamp and let me see . ’ |
| 7 | He did n't say anything at all as , led by his former lieutenant , the congregation swarmed up to the dais and lifted me high on their shoulders . |
| 8 | ‘ He was woken by the smoke and heat and he alerted his sisters , then went straight to the telephone and called me . |
| 9 | I ask him to come to the bathroom and help me tend my hand . |
| 10 | He took me back to the past and showed me the future . |
| 11 | ‘ You can come through to the kitchen and help me make the tea , ’ Miss Honey said , and she led the way along the tunnel into the kitchen — that is if you could call it a kitchen . |
| 12 | And as soon as I got a little older , I tell you , they 'd sell a horse , and my father hopped on the bike , come over to the school and got me out ; and I come home here , hopped on the old horse 's back and rode to Yarmouth or Norwich , wherever they sold it . |
| 13 | The script conference ended with Lorne shrugging his robe to the floor and asking me , with tears in his eyes , " Is this the body of an old man ? " |
| 14 | As I took my place in the darkened centre stage for the opening of the first act , and the lights slowly came up , I saw a sight which I 've never seen before , a sight which chilled me to the marrow and froze me to the spot . |
| 15 | There was a pause , then he said , ‘ Well now , would you be very kind and go down to the cabin and fetch me a bottle of wine , Jim ? |
| 16 | My sister and me are very close , so this woman gave me a giro to go to my sister 's — they took me to the station and put me on the train . |
| 17 | In typical style Shaheen had commissioned the QE2 to take a large party of people to the opening and offered me a cabin on her , but as I could not spare the time and was not sure that I would be entirely at home with my fellow passengers , I flew over in response to his invitation . |
| 18 | But the only thing there was a fragile gecko , which clung splay-footed to the wall and watched me with cloudy eyes . |
| 19 | Chatterton climbed down to the deck and told me that Robin-Anne had eaten a huge breakfast . |
| 20 | for to the father that begat me , this |
| 21 | ‘ He came in to the shop and asked me what he should wear on the date . |
| 22 | At length these bitter fruits of sin , and a sense of dependency on his providence for the averting those dreadful consequences with which others were imminently threatened , brought me to the repentance and gave me a victory over those guilty passions by which I had been so long enslaved . |
| 23 | Instead of getting someone to calm me down and talk to me , a whole bunch of them came and jumped on me and rushed me down to the block and left me there . |
| 24 | If they want to take it all away in the end and match me up with that slimy halfwit , why then take me up to the mountain and show me the world ? |
| 25 | One of the porters nips out every day at five thirty to the off-licence and gets me a cold one . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ All right , I knew all along who came to the flat and thumped me . |
| 27 | Margot is always splendid on these occasions ; she took me back to the house and covered me with ice and raw beef : but in spite of all I am a most revolting sight today and shall be for a week or more — lame in one leg , blind in one eye , and with a nose like Cyrano … |
| 28 | I had the somewhat faint hope that he might lead me to the place and permit me to stand where Balboa had stood — on the very peak which John Keats , with the kind of monumental mistakenness permitted under the principle of poetic licence — declared was occupied by : |
| 29 | I return to the earth that made me . |
| 30 | ‘ They took him to the mortuary and called me . ’ |