Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] me [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can not believe my luck that nobody else had the sense to carry you off but that you should still be there for me and that — ’ Well , that could be taken two ways , on second thoughts that might not be the thing to say , no ; ‘ my luck that you should want me in the same way that I want you . |
| 2 | ‘ My dear officers , ’ said a rather breathless but still well modulated voice , ‘ of what am I accused that you should treat me like the nucleus of a civil rights demonstration ? |
| 3 | I think I should regard me with the contempt with which I myself regard the more vulgar visitors . ’ |
| 4 | You 're my family , and you must meet me at the bridge . ’ |
| 5 | Your article should reach me by the first Friday of the month . |
| 6 | What cruel irony it will be if my own uncompromising and innovatory integrity should lead me into the mantraps set by the sort of people who scarcely know one end of a pen from another . |
| 7 | After his energetic verse Cade 's prose shows that medium at its most laboured and puffy : ‘ Has my sword therefore broke through London gates , that you should leave me at the white Hart in Southwark ? ’ |
| 8 | You 'll send me to the churchyard one day ! |
| 9 | He 'll see me by the fire , leaning against the mantelpiece , and know how things really are ; how they ought to be . |
| 10 | ‘ Yes , if Dad 'll meet me at the station — ’ |
| 11 | Now Welsh M P , this is quite funny , has moved the motion if you 'll excuse me on the subject of public loos . |
| 12 | " Then you 'll take me into the organization ? " |
| 13 | ‘ If you 'll take me to the concert in the cloisters at Pollensa this weekend . ’ |
| 14 | One of these days you 'll lead me across the road . |
| 15 | I had the somewhat faint hope that he might lead me to the place and permit me to stand where Balboa had stood — on the very peak which John Keats , with the kind of monumental mistakenness permitted under the principle of poetic licence — declared was occupied by : |
| 16 | I had the radio on low , in case they interrupted the broadcast with any bulletins that might lead me to the new Night Mayor . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'll trade you your ‘ binos ’ for information that might lead me to the whereabouts of Dr Charity Marlowe . ’ |
| 18 | But I loved the orchestra the moment I stood in front of it ; and I knew from that moment that wherever my musical life might lead me in the meantime , this was what I wanted . |
| 19 | Now , she thought dully , he 'll tell me about the woman he 's crazy for . |
| 20 | I thought you might drive me to the station . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ You 'll push me in the canal ! ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Ca n't stay there , see , he 'll kill me in the end . ’ |
| 23 | Lucky for me that I got out before you could entice me into the ultimate folly of going to bed with you . ’ |
| 24 | Perhaps she could smell me through the door . |
| 25 | ‘ He 'd send me to the dispensary at the workhouse . ’ |
| 26 | I do n't think anybody could see me behind the bouquet and I had trouble finding the keyhole . |
| 27 | In theory , you could see me in the Sunshine Home for Impoverished Journalists in 40 years ' time , tripping the nurses over with my Zimmer frame in the hope that they 'll let me father their child . |
| 28 | Second point : although you obviously have such a low opinion of me that it does n't strain your credulity to believe that I was making love to two women at once , one of them married , I ca n't believe that even you could see me in the role of toy-boy . |
| 29 | If only they could see me in the office now I 'd turn more than a few heads . |
| 30 | Enthusiasm for the idea is great but I wonder if you could provide me with the following information ? |