Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [verb] me [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My friend is not simply explaining why , for good or bad reasons , he did decide to go to the Park ( as he might after the event , in which case it would be no objection to his explanation that when he got there the zoo turned out to be closed ) ; he is defending his decision to go to the Park rather than meet me at his house , and I can still try to change his mind . |
| 2 | Why do n't you go away and leave me to it ? ’ |
| 3 | Good , he thought , if I really work on her she 'll go away and leave me to it . |
| 4 | Ma nods , looks pleadingly and tells me in her love-voice : ‘ She 's only a tiny baby , Jimbo . |
| 5 | ‘ Call in on your way home and tell me about it . ’ |
| 6 | Toby picked me up bodily and carried me to his bed . |
| 7 | ‘ And you 'll write often and tell me about him ? ’ |
| 8 | Crilly grabs my waist roughly and pulls me towards him . |
| 9 | ‘ Come and sit here and tell me about yourself . |
| 10 | We will leave it to Goldberg to disengage the tone from the shit , he wrote , we will leave it to Honeyman and McGough , much good may it do them , though I will no doubt come back to the question before my project is completed , the big glass and the notes to the big glass , these two to be worked on at night , and this freewheeling commentary on both to be written by day , putting down whatever comes into my head after a night 's work , no correction , no revision , whatever comes into my head , the first two to be worked on by artificial light , the strategy clear , this by natural light wherever possible , no strategy at all , the first to be exhibited , the second to be published in the form of sheets in a box , a blue box or a red box , I have not yet made up my mind , in a limited edition , not a luxury edition but a restricted edition , five hundred boxes perhaps or even two hundred and fifty , all that will become clearer in the course of my work on the big glass , of my work on the notes to the big glass , now I have finally embarked on the major project of my life , the climactic project of my life , leading to the end of my life , all will grow clearer , wrote Harsnet , whether to try and call back and destroy all I have done till now or let it be , whether to burn this commentary or let it be , or perhaps leave it to Goldberg to do whatever he wants with , all these things will no doubt be resolved before the work is completed , that is the beauty of being in the middle of a project , that time itself , which had seemed such an enemy before I started , rushing forward and dragging me with it , impervious to my pleas , has suddenly turned friendly , flops down at my feet , licks my ankles , lets me know it is on my side . |
| 11 | ‘ I mean , that old duvet 's bound to cover most of the important parts of my body , and the chances of the pilot on the fire blowing out again and gassing me in my sleep ca n't really be that high , ’ I said . |