Example sentences of "[prep] me and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He rolls off me and passes out on the pillow , the smell of his drunkenness lingering like something live . |
| 2 | He took my passport off me and told me to sit down on a bench sat against the wall ; I picked up a magazine and read it while he checked my details . |
| 3 | She tried to score off me and offered to pay by credit card . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He took 15,000 pesetas off me and said he 'd come to my apartment later that evening . |
| 6 | ‘ He — I knew what would happen — last time he — he started — he got Gary off me and left him — in his cot , he was screaming , he were scared-he was rough you see he gets rough when he 's drunk , he does n't think — ’ |
| 7 | Carefully took it off me and washed it himself cos last time I lost it down the plughole you know ? |
| 8 | I turn over and pretend I 'm still asleep but she pulls the duvet off me and switches the lights on . |
| 9 | I would have loved to have swung the sodding bag and hit him straight in the balls but the old tight-fist snatched it off me and threw the gold on to the hall floor so he could watch his courtiers scramble . |
| 10 | ‘ Jeff told me he 'd had a word with you about me and told you I had lots of experience teaching English to foreign students and that you wanted me to come and do the job . ’ |
| 11 | But paradoxically the public right-to-know argument , which may be a pure power argument for involvement in decision making or an argument just to know what has been decided ( and why ) , may conflict fundamentally with the individual right to know argument which may say , ‘ I have a right to know information and decisions about me and to prevent anyone else from knowing ’ — the confidentiality argument ( or one of them ) . |
| 12 | The Queen and her ladies had heard about me and wanted to see me . |
| 13 | Toby had n't had time to try the ‘ exclusive ’ story on the dirty mac brigade and they clustered about me and shouted the usual obvious questions . |
| 14 | The lady remembered my visit well , said she had been concerned about me and confided that , to provide me with a good meal , she had walked the five miles into Lochinver and back to buy fresh fish . |
| 15 | Basically , they wanted to write a press release about me and distribute it to all the local newspapers , Radio Cornwall , Television South West and the BBC regional news programme , Spotlight . |
| 16 | Stock said nothing for a moment , then he looked through me and said , ‘ I touched Lenin . |
| 17 | A powerful electric current would pass through me and launch a surge of excitement : something wonderful awaited me . |
| 18 | I drafted a statement for the trade union , detailing the nature of their support for me and hinting at a readiness to take further action were the matter not resolved in days . |
| 19 | And he hung it there for me and made me feel its proportions . |
| 20 | Hugh Ritchie , the Departmental Officer one rank above Mr S — , a kind and gentlemanly character with whom I always had rapport , sent for me and asked why I wanted to leave . |
| 21 | She made my bed for me and wound Little Ben as I hurtled into uniform . |
| 22 | One elderly Palestinian in Beirut wanted to draw a map of his olive grove for me and spent ten minutes sketching and re-sketching the roads south of Jaffa . |
| 23 | Type Report on Yugoslav Spitfires by Peter Arnold in the April issue ( p70 ) evoked many memories for me and caused me to rummage around for some half-forgotten photos of nearly half a century ago , and there it was , Mk VcJK808 ‘ B ’ with yours truly in attendance . |
| 24 | ‘ He used to buy slimming magazines for me and put them in my bag , ’ remembers Victoria , who lives in Manchester . |
| 25 | This was a big step for me and put me on the road to caddying top tournaments at a very young age . |
| 26 | He sent for me and demanded my resignation , and we had the worst row I 've ever had in my business life . ’ |
| 27 | Say that for me and go I 'd say it were you were a snob . |
| 28 | I thanked them for praying for me and seeing me now , hoped they thought their efforts worthwhile . |
| 29 | She briefly told them what had occurred , and asked the lad to look for me and tell me that I must go to the police station and not come home without an officer for protection . |
| 30 | Kicking back the covers , I let my feet touch the carpet , put on the white and blue striped kaftan which my journalist daughter had made for me and walked to the window overlooking the central court . |