Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their father who had started the business , although retired , was still usually to be found there , hovering in the background , his full white beard reminding me of Father Christmas . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've had businesses and lots of youth groups contacting me extremely interested in going out in the boat . |
| 3 | Eventually I left them to it and went off into the night , the bells keeping me company through the streets . |
| 4 | ‘ There was this wave knocking me over . |
| 5 | There was this big , tall building protecting me . |
| 6 | I love Marie touching me like she 's doing now . |
| 7 | It 's just great to have Marie touching me like this . |
| 8 | There was one big mango tree , a couple of coconut palms , their tufted branches reminding me of Mother 's feather duster . |
| 9 | One particular Easter , a beautiful day , I remember an overwhelming fear filling me with absolute terror as we stood outside the ticket office after returning from a journey . |
| 10 | I have an enormous prick filling me . |
| 11 | ‘ A week later I received a frantic letter from Valerie imploring me not to go through with it . |
| 12 | I received a letter from one of the repetiteurs informing me emphatically that the chorus thought the music was very bad for their voices . |
| 13 | ‘ And are my eyes deceiving me or are you not the girl who ruined the broomstick display last year ? |
| 14 | D'yer mind tellin' me where yer come from ? ’ |
| 15 | The next day I received a telegram informing me that my request to be transferred to clerical duties at the Ministry of the Interior had been granted . |
| 16 | My reflex actions had never failed me , as if these were computerised signals informing me that immediate action was vital . |
| 17 | She thought : If only there was a Jonah calling me M'Lady and running frightful risks chasing after spies all across Europe in a great Bentley . |
| 18 | I remember this time after school there was a fight between blacks and whites ; I went and stayed in the toilets for a half-hour thinking what I should do and that 's when I really took a look at myself and thought about the white kids calling me names and the black kids saying ‘ come on ’ so I said ‘ all right ’ . |
| 19 | I had no way to deal with thirst , heat , dist and all the other miseries afflicting me . |
| 20 | I , er are you both in effect asking me to adjourn to a date which in a moment will agree on |
| 21 | I turned back to my business , but Miss Kenton remained in the doorway observing me . |
| 22 | And now here I was , faced with a total stranger asking me whether I was Harry or Ray . |
| 23 | Whereupon I fell about in my chair at this with an effective simulacrum of sycophancy , then matadored the old charm around in front of him for a few minutes , and before you could say fundador Walt was on his knees begging me for the coup de grâce . |
| 24 | But one day in 1977 a rather special envelope arrived , bearing an engraved card inviting me to be a guest of honour at the Women of the Year lunch at the Savoy Hotel in London . |
| 25 | In the carriage taking me into town , I cried a little . |
| 26 | I cried out and then more waves came up over my face and … well , just coughing and Bert carrying me up the cliff . ’ |
| 27 | Agrippa 's black cat sat beneath one of the heavy , gold-encrusted arrasses , crouched like a panther , his amber eyes studying me as if I was a mouse . |
| 28 | This time I 've got no crazy , pointless altruism restraining me , and you must long since have discarded whatever distorted idealism made you believe you had to be faithful to Jones in fact and thought , since you claim to have had at least one other relationship between your spells with him . |
| 29 | Although Jeff making me laugh at myself was the beginning of the end of my depression , it was n't enough to persuade me to stay . |
| 30 | ‘ It must be my sins making me restless , unless it 's something I ate . ’ |