Example sentences of "[conj] me [v-ing] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | so I thought while he 's up there rather than me walking up and walking back , cos that would be too much exercise |
| 2 | Like Ricky and me clinging on to the past , thought Daisy . |
| 3 | When she first stood in for Terry Wogan she insisted , ‘ I love standing in for Wogan but I 'm honestly not looking for The Sue Lawley Show with my name in lights and me swooping down a staircase . ’ |
| 4 | talking about condoms and me throwing up and all this . |
| 5 | She probably heard the telly , and me moving around . ’ |
| 6 | Lasting impressions so far : the sun ( miraculously ) shining on the slopes of Dalwhinnie , far in the north , on the first leg of the journey ; stumbling across Drew from the World Cup holiday in a motorway café somewhere in England in the middle of the night ; breakfast and mineral water with Claire ( oh , it was good to see her ) in an Italian cafe near London Victoria ; people throwing up all over the joint on the Seacat crossing to Boulogne ( and me staggering about , legs way out of control , on the deck , getting soaked by the spray , saltwater taste in the mouth , and a rainbow arcing on top of the water behind the catamaran ) ; complaining English and American tourist ( ‘ It 's ridiculous that we have to go through customs — why do we have to go through customs anyway ? … ) ; terrible fatigue on the train to Paris , and temperamental French men shouting and swearing at each other in the aisle ; relief at finding Angela 's flat in Paris ; difficult negotiation of the very narrow stairwell , finally finding her way at the top on the 6th floor ; food , and wine , and a shower , and a bed-settee for the night ; Japanese tourists at Notre Dame , and a man announcing his state of poverty and homelessness on the Métro — ‘ ‘ . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , I told myself , the success of Aunt Louise and me living together hung on such fragile things as unselfishness and the making of adjustments ; and with shame I led my thoughts towards all those people living squashed together in real discomfort and privation . |
| 8 | The memory of lightning flaring between the cracks in the boards and me pushing home the four-inch nails with numb fingers arrived simultaneous with the patter of descending footsteps … |
| 9 | And me turning about like a drowning fish in a mesh of shadows drawing round . |
| 10 | And me feeling so angry with her , and sorry for her at the same time . |
| 11 | As he ducks he has Des diving for his legs and me closing in , and this is the moment we all discover the benefits of my upbringing because like a promising cadet I 'd left the pistol 's safety on . |
| 12 | as if I had n't got enough on my plate with Tim throwing a mid-life crisis and Phil doing the disturbed adolescent bit-now if you please Suzanne comes in at three-thirty in the morning , and me lying there sick with worry , she having never thought to phone , and London with rapists on every street corner or so one 's told . |
| 13 | But now it was like being on the launch pad — the craft standing on its end with the nose upwards and me sitting there facing upwards being pulled down into the back of the seat by gravity . |
| 14 | dad , dad did n't say nothing about all evening just pop in for an hour , but I could n't see Stuey and me sitting there disturb him , scared |
| 15 | How about you and me steppin' out ? |
| 16 | I can imagine you turning right in one of the lanes around here , and me going straight on into some duck pond or other . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ You must be dead beat with everything — and me going on and on . ’ |
| 18 | So when Esquire ask for their 2,000 words next month about the connection between the Croatian Winter Olympics team uniform and Public Enemy , or the brutal point of Michael Barrymore , I can somehow contrive it that I end up writing about how it feels waiting for Maddy 's first smile , about the wonder of her 35th day , about her growing up and me growing up . |
| 19 | And erm so er er if people do that And er this this businessman , this week , he he rang and he he was sending messages via the secretary , instead of getting on the phone to me and and me finding out what there was , he finally he s he said There 'll be about an hour 's work . |