Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did n't want them to see me crying . |
| 2 | If I 'm going anywhere where I want them to see me as a ‘ teacher ’ you know with all that that implies , then I 'll wear my wedding ring . |
| 3 | We do n't as yet have any friends in the street , but we 're on Hello terms with a few neighbours , and frankly I would n't want them to see me putting all these flowers on a skip . |
| 4 | For a moment I thought he was going to get back to the DIY metaphor and start to try to get them to see me as undercoat or Jesus Christ as primer , but , instead , he recovered himself enough to say , ‘ Great News ! ’ |
| 5 | I risked them seeing me so as to try to hear , but in fact by the time I could hear them they were shouting , which meant I could listen through the doorway without seeing them or being seen . |
| 6 | It took four of them to carry me . |
| 7 | The fact that Lili seemed to take an interest in me led me to think that she had never been very close to my mother . |
| 8 | I spent the rest of the evening pretending riveted attention on the discussion while all the time practising ways of looking at the two women without them catching me . |
| 9 | I ask them to forgive me for not taking interventions . |
| 10 | They seemed happy about my victory in Germany and most of them expected me to win more races last year . ’ |
| 11 | One day , one of them asked me , ‘ Have you ever seen any of our Struldbrugs ? ’ |
| 12 | " My mother is threatening to dismiss all the staff unless I tell her which one of them admitted me back into the house last night . |
| 13 | when I was sixteen because it 's then I started to get these free passes and I had a sister then who lived at Rye and I had never been across London so the next door neighbour came with me to see me across London er because I was so young you see and I said right as long as you show me across London I can come back alone , you see , and so I came back alone and I , that 's when I started , so from sixteen and er and as I say I went to Cambridge in the nineteen thirty one , it was the last day of well say nineteen thirty two , you see , and , and also in the twenties I was going on holiday alone and I went to once er to the Isle of Man and when I was er I , I sat next , well being by myself , you see , they put me in , to a little table near the wall . |
| 14 | B H did , she used to say school run Tuesday evening , do n't make any fun , she used to block it out , the time that she wanted me to see me . |
| 15 | His shaking hands with me made me feel half hero , half saint . |
| 16 | The silence that enclosed me made me feel the world had come to an end , that the trees had not yet been informed but soon would be , and would fall on to the stone and thorn , the heather and the fern , skeletons to be picked over , not by vultures but by time . |
| 17 | The calm , thoughtful way she acknowledged them and talked them through with me made me feel that we had taken the first step towards friendship . |
| 18 | Her grey eyes when she looked at me made me tremble . |
| 19 | Oh Shrimpy made me laugh me about it cracks me up like ! |
| 20 | He had quite rightly decided that he could do no good by playing with the Huns at 20,000 feet , so came down to see that none of them got me . ’ |
| 21 | It was a moody holiday and I followed the roads ; some of them led me aright and some astray . |
| 22 | ‘ I said I was subject to them , not that I let them rule me ! ’ |
| 23 | On the day Sir Hubert arrived in Rangoon he sent for me to thank me for the way in which this delicate matter had been handled . |
| 24 | Incidentally I was wearing my ‘ holy robes ’ at Alton Towers back in November , & some Blackburn fans came up to me to thank me for Batty ! |
| 25 | When I meet people I like , instead of saying more and showing I like them and asking questions , I sort of clam up , as if I do n't expect them to like me , or as if I 'm not interesting enough for them . |
| 26 | Some of them became my friends and have remained so until the present day , but the sheer earthy mass of them made me realize how my few months of married life had changed me . |
| 27 | Just watching them made me feel ill . |
| 28 | Ask them to write me a reference so I got form to fill in to send off for something but I 've got ta write something . |
| 29 | Erm , if erm , if one of them contradicted me in the class , I burst into tears , I think you 'd think something was seriously wrong with me , would n't you ? |
| 30 | I would n't let me buy me lunch , I said , and I meant it . |