Example sentences of "[vb base] me [conj] i [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He showed ‘ excessive ’ courtesy to the House of the Senate , saying once ‘ You will , I hope , forgive me if I trespass on my rights as a senator by speaking rather more plainly than I should . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Forgive me if I seem to be playing the amateur sleuth once again , but something else occurred to me the other day , which might or might not be of interest to you . ’ |
| 3 | After you calmly tell me that I walked through a fucking wall ! ’ |
| 4 | They tell me if I walk in a certain direction for an hour I 'll come across a road and by the time I set my watch and compass they 've vanished over the dunes . |
| 5 | just tw okay now , just keep , stand here and tell me when I come to the good bit . |
| 6 | three million books on the shelve , and we do n't have time going properly at the price so we go anything you want , bung it on the trolley and soon as the trolleys full it 's taken away and another one given , and you poke around and then in the evening , you stay in a hotel overnight , and then the following morning , they get and you just sort of send up the money and they just shout up the money as we go , then , every time I get to a thousand they say one , two , and you say right , tell me when I get near three , and I 've got this erm , I 'm dreadful at maths , I failed maths O Level three times and I do n't think about prices , I 've never been more than fifteen pounds out . |
| 7 | I remember once when he was talking about acting on the continent , he said , ‘ They like me because I act like a German . ’ |
| 8 | Just as unc so a step " up " and a step " down " added together leave me where I started with zero displacement ) . |
| 9 | Now correct me if I 'm wrong , I 'll look in the other r Excuse me while I look in the other room . |