Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [verb] me [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Tired and confused after the journey , I followed the servant into a large building , where she left me in a sitting-room .
2 So I said do you want the truth or you want me to yourself ?
3 Like when we go to the laundrette , or she takes me to the swimming baths to have a hot shower .
4 They accused me of going to hit one of them with it … they put me in a police van and took me to Victoria Barracks where they kept me for two hours .
5 I kissed the rose , and that night , in bed , I placed it where he desired me to .
6 ‘ He escorted me to his lodgings , where he treated me with every kindness , and dried my clothes whilst I managed a few hours sleep . ’
7 He took me in his arms and carried me downstairs to the library , where he put me in front of the fire , and gave me a glass of wine .
8 It was then that she told me about the hysterectomy . ’
9 Earthy type , she used to say , but it was all talk with him and he never gave her any trouble that she told me about . ’
10 and I know something that she told me about you that I know that she do n't , she do n't know that I , I know that , you do n't know that , I know
11 It was two months later that she told me of her problem and the discomfort it had previously caused her .
12 And it is not that she knows me to be bad or weak , or you either , but her conventional mind could not grasp that a thing so often impure , can be made absolutely and perfectly pure .
13 all the same , that she wants me at home , though she does n't like me , and she could never admit that she might need me … "
14 But whatever the case , and despite the fact that she bores me to stupefaction , I ca n't be unkind to her . ’
15 Observing Irina in her advancing years , it is only occasionally that she reminds me of my mother or Aunt Anna — a look , a gesture , a sudden exclamation .
16 ‘ Did you care when you walked out on me the day that you told me about the notes and the wine glass , and then Rebecca came back to the office ?
17 She goes on slowly and naively : ‘ I 'm really glad , in a way , that you took me to that place .
18 I LIKE that you tell me about it , your flesh impatient with words , you say : go inside me — yeah — yeah — no — more — and your body whiplashes head to toe , the ill-appreciated G spot , baby you got it .
19 ‘ I insist that you take me to a fastline terminal .
20 ‘ It was not so much consideration as intuition , for something tells me that you visit me with some strange intelligence . ’
21 ‘ Do n't you know that you caught me at an age when Taureans are at their most vulnerable ?
22 Unfortunately it was received too late to go through the formal council procedure , but I do hope that you allow me to hand it to the council secretary later who it is addressed to .
23 And I do n't think that you own me after my day is over , Dr Cochrane .
24 By your expression , I judge that you suspect me of pseudo-intellectual flim-flam and it is undeniable that our deliberations tended more towards the sybaritic than the Socratic .
25 As I understand it , you were continuing the same metaphor when you told me that you wanted me to be a kind of groundsman .
26 You said , I think , that you wanted me to ‘ check the condition of the pitch ’ and to ‘ make sure there 's a goal somewhere down the other end of the field ’ .
27 That you showed me on the plan ?
28 Erm , and he said , you know , I really resent the fact that you treat me like a village idiot , and I said , well you know , I 'm sorry that you feel that way , but my experience is of a group of fourteen people , erm , is that somebody always gets it wrong .
29 ‘ I do n't want to spend my time with you , any more than you want me at your side , so the sooner you tell me where Garry is , the sooner we can part company .
30 The house we sat in was still in chaos , so she led me to the sunny kitchen , where we talked and drank coffee , surrounded by boxes and plants and the smell of paint .
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