Example sentences of "[vb past] me [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was , after all , living with a man who was stealing from me , keeping part of his life secret from me , who expected me to adapt myself to his obsessive timekeeping . |
| 2 | ‘ I think Stan expected me to grab it with both hands and when I declined , he just sat there and could n't believe it . |
| 3 | I think Stan expected me to grab it with both hands . |
| 4 | ‘ She asked me to give it to the lady who had been in court with her child , and to ask if you would take care of her till she could come for her . ’ |
| 5 | They gave me a line of coke , and asked me to do it for them . |
| 6 | Smith was a slow reader and took about an hour to read and ponder the document , after which he approved it and asked me to take it to Harold Wilson . |
| 7 | I had only been at home for about ten days when a friend of mine asked me to join him on a journey to the East Indies . |
| 8 | For example , if the soft sell chap fails to wheedle his client into buying , his partner can ring him up and say : " My colleague 's at an important meeting , but he asked me to call you about this stock . |
| 9 | ‘ Forgive me , Chieh Hsia , but you asked me to remind you of your audience with Minister Chao . ’ |
| 10 | Paul Reichmann asked me to delay everything for two months and I agreed . |
| 11 | It was later that evening that he took a white muslin dress out of the bag with which he had returned from Paris and asked me to wear it as a nightdress . |
| 12 | ‘ Doctor Volkov asked me to collect something from her office . |
| 13 | He gave me this and asked me to deliver it to Dick Tavett . |
| 14 | They asked me to follow them without any explanation and blindfolded me . |
| 15 | And er you know she asked me to cut it for her so I cut it for her . |
| 16 | He , they left the er they 'd gone said leave it in the conservatory , then he went out and and and and er shut his conservatory so they could n't leave it so they asked me to keep it for him . |
| 17 | Mr Hellyer asked me to hide it for him . |
| 18 | A New Zealander , Wilkins , who had joined the section halfway through basic training from Castelnaudary , asked me to write one for him . |
| 19 | As one who was so instrumental in mapping out the future promise of early Smiths , his quote ‘ If you asked me to write something about The Smiths now it would probably be critical ’ , remained interesting . |
| 20 | Furthermore , he never asked me to write it in his place . |
| 21 | Then he asked me to kiss him on the lips and we kissed . |
| 22 | As some of the other legionnaires could n't write very well , they asked me to help them with their letters . |
| 23 | My guilty passion made me admire her in everything she said or did . |
| 24 | Two explosions in quick succession made me throw myself to the ground . |
| 25 | Oh Shrimpy made me laugh me about it cracks me up like ! |
| 26 | This posture always made me suspect him of having a horizontal cleft slicing through his buttocks , betokening a random — but adaptive — mutation , taking humans closer to being office furniture . |
| 27 | The fellow 's smugness and unnecessary familiarity with Mala made me dislike him at once . |
| 28 | ‘ What made me develop her along masochistic lines ? |
| 29 | After a short chat he invited me to join him at a ‘ small Chinese gathering ’ in the hall usually used for Tong meetings on River Street West . |
| 30 | Deborah invited me to meet her at home in North London , and mentioned on the phone that her mum , Elaine , would like to meet me too . |