Example sentences of "me [prep] do " in BNC.
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| 1 | People are always niggling me and teasing me for doing too much work , going into too many details for even the smallest conference . |
| 2 | I was 45 before I spoke with Toscanini and then he attacked me for doing Debussy 's Pelléas et Mélisande at La Scala in French . |
| 3 | I 'll get you so you wo n't even recognise your own body but after we 've done it you 'll be grateful to me that I made you do it and you 'll enjoy it and you 'll get better at it and one day you 'll thank me for doing this to you . |
| 4 | ‘ It seems somewhat harsh to criminalise me for doing my best in what were quite exceptional circumstances . ’ |
| 5 | The hon. Gentleman accuses me of doing that , but it is his mechanism . |
| 6 | Vivienne — with Bernie backing her up as Malcolm was in the States , having extended his visit after striking up a rapport with The New York Dolls at the time — talked me into doing it . |
| 7 | But she had insisted , and although the room was warm , and the kitchen stove had already been made up for the night , I had gone — yet it was a strange experience to me , and rather a frightening one , to have been persuaded by someone near to me into doing even so small a thing I felt to be hazardous . ) |
| 8 | At the time I just wanted to be left alone , but now I 'm glad he pressured me into doing more talks . |
| 9 | I felt helpless in the face of my own infantile bad temper and sulkiness ; I could remember exactly how I 'd felt when I was six , and somebody was trying to cajole me into doing something I did n't want to do … in a minute , I thought in some recess of my mind , I 'll be stamping and shouting , " Wo n't ! " |
| 10 | ‘ Although why I let her talk to me into doing such a foolish thing is beyond my comprehension . ’ |
| 11 | Being able to see both points of view has helped me in doing what we are trying to do , namely having things made specially for us and creating our own brands . |
| 12 | But it 's the story of how I did them , of what happened to me in doing them . |
| 13 | When I 'm happy I 'm a wonderful person to be with , but if anyone tries to keep me from doing what I want to do then I 'm … ’ |
| 14 | It may be that you think my association with a certain person will prevent me from doing anything about Geoffrey . |
| 15 | I try to lead as normal a life as possible and not think about my condition or regret the things it prevents me from doing , which are not that many . |
| 16 | ‘ Izz , by your honesty you have saved me from doing something wicked . |
| 17 | As I believe that you both did , when you were my age — if you can remember so far back — but I knew you would prevent me from doing so if I told you the truth . ’ |
| 18 | Other and if it was n't for for me doing a course next year which would probably preclude me from doing that , I 'd be quite interested . |
| 19 | Things which , to my mind have been totally illogical — and yet nothing on this earth would have stopped me from doing them . ’ |
| 20 | Do you want me to done to you ? |
| 21 | The sergeant came in beaming and congratulated me on doing a fine job . |
| 22 | And then she quite confounded me by doing exactly what I advised , and I always thought she took me for a crank whose horse sense , if any , was a forced calm not to be heeded . |
| 23 | I do n't know why women like to taunt me , but they seem to grow fonder of me by doing so . |