Example sentences of "[vb base] me [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was so rattled I glanced round to make sure this was n't a signal for an army of bunnies like this Dobermann of a beast to come up from behind and tear me to shreds . |
| 2 | waves push me to the side |
| 3 | What do you want now , ah , that 's it push me over you are n't half cheeky , no wonder Mary tells me off the way I treat ya , ah ? |
| 4 | Thou twittest me with being a knave and a traitor , but then thou hast a lying tongue … |
| 5 | I take it you book me into that hotel . |
| 6 | Please favour me with an answer . ’ |
| 7 | And wrapt me in a gown . |
| 8 | ‘ He would not , ’ he added , ‘ trust me with the money , you understand . ’ |
| 9 | They trust me with bunches of keys and let me phone my sister . |
| 10 | They trust me for my word and my attitude . ’ |
| 11 | She opened it , and found a very small cake with the words EAT ME on it . |
| 12 | ‘ When I said I was working with Michael Crawford , they said he would be a monster , eat me for breakfast , have me on toast and upstage me totally . |
| 13 | ‘ Do please change me into a wolf , Mr Bilsiter , ’ said Mrs Hampton during lunch on the day of his arrival . |
| 14 | Evict me from my mother 's house ? |
| 15 | I see , you criticize my appearance , and then you stab me in the back ! |
| 16 | I wrote : ‘ These are the questions that really bug me about you . |
| 17 | If so , you all reproach me with your cheerful resilience . ’ |
| 18 | You reproach me for being stupidly repelled by a taste of which I have never dared to become fully aware . |
| 19 | They all hate me of course . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ And you hate me for all that , of course , ’ Luke accepted neutrally . |
| 21 | You probably hate me for saying that . ’ |
| 22 | Erm you you bring me onto the second dimension of Leeds ' objection which is to do with the distribution of those jobs . |
| 23 | You bring me into the office to shout at me and I ca n't say anything . |
| 24 | The hasty note , the spluttering pen , the exasperated correction , the careful clerkly hand , the grandiloquent flourish , the obsequious subscription , the torn seal , the glint of sand still held in the writing from the hand that strewed it centuries ago — all these and much else bring me into close company with the past , more than the rooms in which men sat , the streets they walked , the clothes they wore or the trinkets that adorned them . |
| 25 | Look , ’ he added , taking hold of Robyn 's arm , ‘ if ever she starts on you like that again , just bring me into it — I 'll sort her out . ’ |
| 26 | Er and she said I 'll ring you ag I said oh dear someone now coming to the door , she said , never mind I 'll ring you on Saturday , so I said alright and er and she lives at Wyndham , Norfolk , my husband 's niece and erm , you see , and then there 's the other one and she said , auntie you 're always so cheerful , I said , well I try to be cheerful because like everybody else I get a little depressed sometimes because , you see , I have no sisters and brothers , I have three elderly cousins who live away and who I , who I see , one was here a fortnight ago er er er my cousin and his wife er , you see , it will be on a Wednesday , a fortnight today , no Thursday , yes , you see , a fortnight ago and they said , we 'll come again an we 've always bought you a bunch of daffodils so we shall come again when the daffodils are and er and they bring me over bits and pieces because er she was a cook and they bring me something nice to eat |
| 27 | And these estimates you bring me of his numbers since they can but be estimates — have you shot low or high ? |
| 28 | Pain , boredom and badgering of some very kind nurses bring me to a steam-age typewriter in the hospital 's occupational therapy department . |
| 29 | Bring me to him . |
| 30 | ‘ Bring me in a cuppa , Debbie , will you ? ’ |