Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] 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 | This partially revived me after the £1,314 price tag made me feel faint . |
| 3 | Whether he wanted to be hurt and suffer , or an excuse to hit me back , I do n't know , but I 'm sure he wanted me to hit him . |
| 4 | Halliwell drives me almost daily , and occasionally my daughter-in-law . |
| 5 | I was glad of Ika 's presence to support me and supplement my responses : |
| 6 | Until I can persuade her to unbind me — or make contact with Mephistco and convince someone back at base to forgive me my trespasses just long enough to do an override — I am confined inside the plane of reflected light . |
| 7 | I did n't see the new dog till it was nearly six months old and its mistress asked me to call to treat it for a slight attack of eczema . |
| 8 | Albert as chairman asked me a number of questions to which he already knew the answers for the good reason that we had already gone over them in Fulham . |
| 9 | The Tourist Board asked me , ‘ Could you not write about real places so we can send people there ? ’ |
| 10 | You know me , Danny , I do n't go roun' askin' fer trouble but this geezer got me goin' . |
| 11 | The fact that my innocent inquiry had provoked such a defensive , almost hostile response got me thinking about what has been happening to the labour force since the mid-1970s . |
| 12 | The Government insisted its policy was a straightforward ‘ no deals with terrorists ’ , but the idea that ‘ no deals ’ could be accepted as a comprehensive response appalled me . |
| 13 | I would have liked to take the Crusades as my special subject , but my inadequacy in Latin deterred me . |
| 14 | What strange quirk of the heart made me feel so much a part of the life of this place ? |
| 15 | I said , I 'll tell you what , I said er cos my mum lent me seven hundred |
| 16 | He was going to let you come to the sanatorium to see me . |
| 17 | I 'll never get the part trust me . |
| 18 | ‘ My parents ' break-up made me grow up very quickly which really helps quite a lot in my profession , ’ he says . |
| 19 | an hour to see me . |
| 20 | Mum encourages me to like my face without make-up . |
| 21 | My parents are very accepting ; my mum encourages me to dress for comfort rather than fashion . |
| 22 | ‘ Yer Mum asked me to call in and clear away the crocks and tek the chairs outside ready ter goo back ter the mission 'all . ’ |
| 23 | Mum asked me to ice his birthday cake while they were out and decorate it with chocolate leaves which I had to make first . |
| 24 | Well I said to her er your mum asked me last night . |
| 25 | True love you 're the one I 'm , dreaming of you 're heart fits me , like a glove , and I 'm gon na be true blue , baby I love you ! |
| 26 | Your heart fits me , like a glove so we 're gon na true blue baby I love you ! |
| 27 | Your heart fits me like a glove . |
| 28 | YOU recently mentioned con tricks well , I was waiting at Lime Street Station for my mother when a well-dressed man with a briefcase asked me for £1 . |
| 29 | Griffin , to exemplify this , reports a signing sequence by Patterson 's Koko : ‘ Please milk please me like drink apple bottle ’ , and one from Nim , ‘ Give orange me eat orange give me eat orange give me you ’ ( 1984 : 200 ) . |
| 30 | I had another coffee ; I was confused , irritable and dizzy as I stood by the buffet and watched the station cleaners , suddenly desperate to be on my way before tiredness made me change my mind . |