Example sentences of "[prep] me [conj] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He took 15,000 pesetas off me and said he 'd come to my apartment later that evening . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 — ’ |
| 5 | Carefully took it off me and washed it himself cos last time I lost it down the plughole you know ? |
| 6 | Tricia backed her way out , never taking her eyes off me or letting her bearings slip . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It was never going to be a career for me but kept me in beer money and taught me about how to deal with the public . ’ |
| 11 | Crilly reaches for me but stops himself ; we are in his mother 's bed after all . |
| 12 | ‘ Thoo should 'ave waited for me afore fastening 'im . |
| 13 | Second , the specificity of who it is safe to love is related to the ‘ me in you ’ : ‘ I love someone who reflects part of myself , sometimes a hidden or unacknowledged part of myself ; I feel good with a you who either shares my feelings , expresses them for me or helps me to defend myself against them . ’ |
| 14 | Erm did n't say you 'll go back and work out a plan of attack for me or did you ? |
| 15 | And he hung it there for me and made me feel its proportions . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | This was a big step for me and put me on the road to caddying top tournaments at a very young age . |
| 18 | ‘ He used to buy slimming magazines for me and put them in my bag , ’ remembers Victoria , who lives in Manchester . |
| 19 | He sent for me and demanded my resignation , and we had the worst row I 've ever had in my business life . ’ |
| 20 | Say that for me and go I 'd say it were you were a snob . |
| 21 | I thanked them for praying for me and seeing me now , hoped they thought their efforts worthwhile . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | ‘ Wolves forward Paul Cook spoke up for me and said he was out of control . |
| 24 | When he returned , he sent for me and said I must be stark crazy . |
| 25 | Lord Palmerston sent for me and told me in a jaunty way that he would have nothing to do with this Gothic style , and that though he did not want to disturb my appointment he must insist on my making a design in the Italian style which he felt sure I could do as well as the other . |
| 26 | The next I knew was when the boy came for me and told me that there were two dead bodies in the Little Vestry . |
| 27 | In those early pre-TV Saturday afternoon matinee days at the Ideal cinema in Carrickfergus , only two movies broke the mould for me and lodged themselves forever in the imagination : The Wizard of Oz and Darby O'Gill and the Little People . |
| 28 | He reaches for me and holds me tight , and the tremble of him is tremendous . |
| 29 | Must now conclude trusting my dear that every blessing will attend you and trusting I may find you well when I return — kiss dear Fritz [ ? ] for me and believe me to remain Eliza |
| 30 | But later , I realized that it had been quite good for me and stopped me getting big-headed . |