Example sentences of "me and [verb] i [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Arrest me and put me on a diet fast ! |
| 2 | This was a big step for me and put me on the road to caddying top tournaments at a very young age . |
| 3 | To give him time to make his getaway he ties me up , blindfolds me , gags me and hides me in a cupboard . |
| 4 | ‘ That 's in the future but it will be another chapter in the book and I am sure Joe is going to point a few things out to me and help me along the way . |
| 5 | They will understand me too quickly ; they will turn my own generosity against me and despise me for the lovers I took ; and they will cast me as the woman who briefly threatened to interfere with the writing of the books which they have enjoyed reading . |
| 6 | Lord Palmerston sent for me and told me in a jaunty way that he would have nothing to do with this Gothic style , and that though he did not want to disturb my appointment he must insist on my making a design in the Italian style which he felt sure I could do as well as the other . |
| 7 | I have to dress in my sweaty , dirty clothes and go back down to the kitchen , grumbling while she makes me a coffee , and I complain about my wet boots and she gives me a fresh pair of William 's socks to wear and I put them on and drink my coffee and whine about never being allowed to spend the night and tell her how just once I 'd like to wake up here in the morning , and have a nice , civilised breakfast with her , sitting on the sunny balcony outside the bedroom windows , but she makes me sit down while she laces my boots up , then takes my coffee cup off me and sends me out the back door and says I 've got two minutes before she arms the alarm and puts the infrared lights on stand-by so I have to go back the way I came , over the estate wall and through the wood and down into the stream where I get both feet wet and cold and I fall going up the bank and get all muddy and eventually drag myself up and through the hedge , scratching my cheek and tearing my polo-neck and then trudging across the field through heavy rain and more mud and finally getting to the car and panicking when I ca n't find the car keys before remembering I put them in the button-down back pocket of the jeans for safety instead of the side pocket like I usually do , and then having to put some dead branches under the front wheels because the fucking car 's stuck and finally getting away and home and even in the street light I can see what a mess of the pale upholstery my muddy clothes have made . |
| 8 | A woman hurried over to me and took me by the hand . |
| 9 | As I landed , four of the men came towards me and took me by the arms . |
| 10 | Underhill then turned on me and bit me on the back of the hand . |
| 11 | Release me and restore me to the ground ; |
| 12 | Let the man lift me from the car still asleep and wrapped in a tartan blanket , let him lift me and carry me up the stairs to my bed , let him gently say , ‘ we 're here ’ … let him lay me down to sleep . |
| 13 | And then , I liked having nice little teas served to me for a change ; to have Wilson taking care of me and treating me like a lady — because there was a little something between us . |
| 14 | He smiled , thanked me and patted me on the head before knocking at our door . |
| 15 | Then this young punk comes up behind me and hits me on the head with a car-tool . |
| 16 | They were kicking me and hitting me with a big bar . |
| 17 | Three of them I recognize , but the whole gang has been grinning at me and clapping me on the back like I was their kid brother pulled out of a scrape . |
| 18 | The point is that the inference which you give to it is that they 're not quite fit to be Governors , by comparison with others , and I 'd like to defend that because I can assure you that I have never ever nominated a Governor for a school who I have not thought would be advantageous to that Board of Governors to have as a member and that he will be he or she will be a contributor to that particular school , and I 've done it time and time and time again and indeed on occasions have had headmasters coming to me and thanking me for the particular person that I put in . |
| 19 | Their family was really big and they were really noisy people and Nigo used to fancy everything in sight , he used to fancy me and chase me round the playground . |
| 20 | Then you follow me and hit me with a driver and drop away quickly because I 'm going to hit it so fast he wo n't know where the ball is until it 's down the fairway . ’ |
| 21 | He looked at me and hit me on the shoulder . |
| 22 | They got hold of me and pushed me to the ground then they took the money in my pockets . |
| 23 | They got hold of me and pushed me to the ground then they took the money in my pockets . |
| 24 | One day he came up behind me and pushed me into a metal locker . |
| 25 | Their company seemed to drain me and send me into a state of nervous exhaustion after even a short while . |
| 26 | Father spun round , took three steps towards me and smacked me on the ear . |
| 27 | ‘ I was walking home from school and a masked man grabbed me and hauled me into a car . |