Example sentences of "me [verb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could not see my mother sine she had got herself well hidden behind my father so I rushed to the house , through the open french windows , saw my wife sideways on to me gazing at a blank wall and screamed , " See what 's happening — our baby to be plastered over half of some alien landscape ! |
| 2 | I told my Mum that I had a headache so she let me stay at home . |
| 3 | That first day at school depressed me , and during the next few days I begged my parents to let me stay at home , which of course was out of the question . |
| 4 | When at last he placed the phone down he turned and gazed at Joe , saying in a bewildered tone , ‘ It 's Harry ; they … they want me to go at once . ’ |
| 5 | " He has never asked me to go at this time of night before , " she whispered . |
| 6 | It fulfilled none of my expectations and seemed to be merely trying to make me laugh at the fact that it had left me standing there grasping at nothing . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Peter does n't make me laugh at all . |
| 9 | This line of thinking , however , seems to me to miss at least one major point . |
| 10 | At the time I was of the same colouring ( there 's a portrait of me hanging at Burpham ) . |
| 11 | The professor 's secretary , who is wearing fluffy aquamarine slippers , asks me to wait at the end of a blank corridor . |
| 12 | Much of the writing about television fiction seems to me to remain at the level of elementary genres , grounded in the dominance of the semantic aspect , with relatively little analytic or historical attention to the ‘ verbal ’ ( style , mise-en-scene ) or the ‘ syntactic ’ ( narrative structure ) : there is very little close textual analysis of television fiction , and there is no scholarly history of the development of television form to compare with the histories which have emerged of early cinema . |
| 13 | ’ , ‘ Comfortable woman needed , good with children … ’ , when the thought came to me that , with a roof over my head and just about enough money to live on , there was no real need for me to work at all . |
| 14 | I needed a job which would enable me to work at home , and be with my family every evening . |
| 15 | Anna had me educated at home as she herself had been and Constanza . |
| 16 | ‘ One of them was so desperate to stop me overtaking at the ford he lost his footing and fell backwards into the water . ’ |
| 17 | So I hope it is n't just sentimentality that makes me baulk at his drastic solution . |
| 18 | Yes there were criticism but it 's not appropriate for me to comment at the moment . |
| 19 | So was old Jacko , who 'd made me re-write at Thrills piece twice and still did n't run it . |
| 20 | ‘ He 's asked me to dine at the villa he 's looking after for a few months , just to oblige a couple of ex-pats . |
| 21 | Several times while I was at Magdalen he had me to dine at All Souls with its distinguished Fellows . |
| 22 | I have preferred Irish humour ever since I heard of the Dublin man visiting London who wrote to his wife … ‘ and if you do not receive this letter you are to let me know at once ! ’ |
| 23 | Please let me know at least two days in advance so that I can make other arrangements . ’ |
| 24 | Oh right , so let me know at the end of the week . |
| 25 | Perhaps you could let me know at the meeting next Wednesday . |
| 26 | Well if you let me know at the meeting then I 'll . . |
| 27 | If you let me know at the meeting and . |
| 28 | Well let me know at the meeting . |
| 29 | Something made me linger at the bottom of the grand staircase , near the bust of Unamuno , pretending to read some notices about student societies . |
| 30 | you with me ? , cos I 'm having him going over my words , but I felt really guilty about that , because I , the thought that he was frightened of me shouting at him and yet I think it 's to do with passing over of all authority , I 've been teaching him , I 'm the one that does the words , not her |