Example sentences of "me with " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because Sandy was embarked on a marriage and a career pointing him in a more conventional direction than mine , planning the sort of life that looked to me to have more obviously evolved from the background I 'd put behind me , it did n't seem to me that he would have had the wherewithal — ‘ morally ’ , as I would have been quick to say then — to help me through my predicament or , if he did , that it was possible for me with my values , to solicit his assistance . |
| 2 | There were a lot of people older than me with more experience of life . |
| 3 | Auditioning makes me very nervous but sight reading — maybe because I 'm better at it — inspires me with more confidence . |
| 4 | We will leave it to Goldberg to disengage the tone from the shit , he wrote , we will leave it to Honeyman and McGough , much good may it do them , though I will no doubt come back to the question before my project is completed , the big glass and the notes to the big glass , these two to be worked on at night , and this freewheeling commentary on both to be written by day , putting down whatever comes into my head after a night 's work , no correction , no revision , whatever comes into my head , the first two to be worked on by artificial light , the strategy clear , this by natural light wherever possible , no strategy at all , the first to be exhibited , the second to be published in the form of sheets in a box , a blue box or a red box , I have not yet made up my mind , in a limited edition , not a luxury edition but a restricted edition , five hundred boxes perhaps or even two hundred and fifty , all that will become clearer in the course of my work on the big glass , of my work on the notes to the big glass , now I have finally embarked on the major project of my life , the climactic project of my life , leading to the end of my life , all will grow clearer , wrote Harsnet , whether to try and call back and destroy all I have done till now or let it be , whether to burn this commentary or let it be , or perhaps leave it to Goldberg to do whatever he wants with , all these things will no doubt be resolved before the work is completed , that is the beauty of being in the middle of a project , that time itself , which had seemed such an enemy before I started , rushing forward and dragging me with it , impervious to my pleas , has suddenly turned friendly , flops down at my feet , licks my ankles , lets me know it is on my side . |
| 5 | He tried to hit me , kept pummelling me with his podgy fists , but he could n't summon up the necessary enthusiasm . |
| 6 | Hitting me with her little fists , but I could n't get the smile off my face . |
| 7 | Tried working through the Alekhine Paz had given me , but even chess filled me with disgust . |
| 8 | You will recall , however , that before you vanished from our lives you entrusted me with the notes you had kept while working on the Big Glass and the Green Box , telling me I could do what I liked with them , and adding , in your usual sensitive way , that I could always use them to wipe my arse if the paper decided to sack me and I found myself really hard up . |
| 9 | Filled me with depression . |
| 10 | It took a while before they finally trusted me with a little cooking . |
| 11 | I must have said that several times already because Ma fixed me with a glittering stare and exclaimed , ‘ If you say that word once more , Andrew , just once more , I 'll send you to the Science Museum again … with Annabel . ’ |
| 12 | They ca n't fool me with that ‘ powdering my nose ’ act . |
| 13 | I was about to throw it at one of the maids as she passed beneath me with a tray of glasses , but just then Claire came out of the reception room . |
| 14 | On my final day at Berkeley , my fourth-form pupils presented me with some flowers and a small mounted copy of Claude Lorrain 's ‘ Hagar and the Angel ’ . |
| 15 | Despite this , at lunchtime Kathleen presented me with four hours ' pay and pressed me for a few more details to help her with her enquiries . |
| 16 | Why should I let society off the hook by accepting rubbish when it 's more than within their means to treat me with dignity ? ’ |
| 17 | I 've had another word with Personnel and they say that even though I ca n't have any more full-timers , I can have a part-timer to help me with making the sandwiches in the morning and clearing up last thing at night . |
| 18 | She came up to me with , I noticed , slightly less bounce in her step than there had been the previous day . |
| 19 | And my father 's said he 's going to help me with the fees , so it 's all going to work out . ’ |
| 20 | Can you help me with my trailing variegated nepeta ? |
| 21 | One of my colleagues , no doubt swayed by the heat of the discussion , turned on me sitting in my short-sleeved uniform shirt , and rebuked me with the warning that ‘ in my force , you 'd be disciplined for mutilating police property … |
| 22 | I do n't think you are in love with me , you cut in , fixing me with your eyes . |
| 23 | Fancy hitting me with this . |
| 24 | ‘ Roger says he did n't see me with anyone in the kitchen earlier . |
| 25 | In any case , it 's weird that whenever I say that to Keith , he looks at me with the unmistakably quizzical air of the tall thin intellectual he is , his hair on the blond side of chestnut ( now heavily greying ) ; his fair skin with his rosy cheeks reminding one of Victorian youths with perfect complexions ( or so the novels of Wilkie Collins and the paintings of the Pre-Raphaelites would have us believe ) ; his eyebrows bushy and deliberately unkempt ; his classic tweed suit of the old school , worn with a shamefully Byronic air somewhere between hippy and academic ; his accent public school , as befits his education , although he also speaks a passable Spanish , so we can keep switching languages whenever linguistic difficulties develop . |
| 26 | Twitbread News further regales me with the information that McCartney was voted Scouseperson of the Year by ‘ the people of his home city ’ . |
| 27 | He even jumped on me when asked to pose for a photo and , towering above me with his paws on my shoulders , gave me the most enormous , slobbering lick imaginable . |
| 28 | ‘ I will never , never abandon these bright hopes , ’ he used to say to me with shining eyes . |
| 29 | Thomson 's latest letters to the media very , but in some he explains the decades of delay with a puzzling tale of his attempts to ‘ shield the Blumleins from the belated discovery that a person close to them had supplied me with letters … stolen from the late Mr A K Van Warrington ’ . |
| 30 | It was good to see a reference in your magazine to valve amplification ( EW + WW August 1991 ) , but I still have a certain frustration that you may be able to help me with . |