Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] me [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So if you want to get me fined for talking you 're in the wrong place . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ No , sir , I mean let me go with him . ’ |
| 3 | Such developments keep Johnson and Boswell at a further remove , although on the wall of the castle hangs a framed letter in which Johnson , with his attractive spidery writing , gives thanks to his host : ‘ The kind treatment which I have found wherever I go makes me leave with some heaviness of heart an island I am not likely to see again … |
| 4 | You have warm feelings for her too , but you 've let me succeed in courting her ! |
| 5 | And er I used to go myself quite a lot er when there were well when there were more than one coming up I 've seen me go into , down in the pullman train from here to er , well we had about five changes I think , fat father had it all marked out so as you changed at a certain place . |
| 6 | The sweat was running down your back all day and I 've seen me taken off my white clothes and hang them up and they were still wet when you come in the next day . |
| 7 | Chairman , I , I , I 'm really confused now , I mean they 've , they 've got me , they 've got me talking about semantics here which is ridiculous . |
| 8 | The Chairman of the Board and er You 've Got Me Dangling on a String it 's radio Nottingham it 's Geoff Owen here till two this afternoon . |
| 9 | I mean fancy expecting me to go by tube |
| 10 | You 've raised me to sit in high places |
| 11 | These musings have made me burst into verse : |
| 12 | Now she thinks , not his cock but his tongue , I should have cut his tongue out with them , his slow quicksilver tongue ; for he partly took me backwards out of my joy , into an old timidity that 's there still ; and it 's made a meal of me sometimes teaching , when the sharper ones have had me squirming for my lazy luck . |
| 13 | I am trying now to wind down that project in favour of others , and am asking those who have helped me to take upon themselves what I have been doing , and find homes for their old journals — in libraries , universities and elsewhere . |
| 14 | I comfort myself with that recollection when dealing with complaints about my own paper , very much part of a modern editor 's work in an age when our readers have become more critical and more discriminating , but Professor Macmurray 's insights have helped me to distinguish between those complaints that flow , as they sometimes do , from a different subjective interpretation of a given body of facts and those that arise from a straightforward error on our part . |
| 15 | If you have any suspicions , any doubts , you have to let me know about them ; you have to name names . ’ |
| 16 | In connection with the role you have asked me to undertake in the dispute between Mr D Smith and the other directors of and shareholders in Smith & Co Limited , I am writing to set out the nature of the responsibilities which you wish me to perform . |
| 17 | The Wingfields are returning to England and have asked me to go with them . |
| 18 | Recent pictures on television showing young Kiwi enthusiasts pestering Test cricketers for their autographs as they left the field of play — and this actually during a Test match ! — have led me to ruminate on the lasting attraction of the pursuit of cricketers ' signatures . |
| 19 | You do n't know how many girls have begged me to come to the Casablanca Club , and you are the only one I have asked . ’ |