Example sentences of "[verb] me on [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thinking of Bonanza got me on trying to figure his reaction if Vecchi got hooked for the Mahoney killing . |
| 2 | Also , I was interested in any information you could give me on working in advertising or public relations on a music journal . |
| 3 | She congratulated me on eschewing the filth and violence that at that time were almost necessary to sell a book ( as my publisher told me ) , and said that she almost felt that she might have written it herself . |
| 4 | The great man congratulated me on knowing where they were . |
| 5 | The sergeant came in beaming and congratulated me on doing a fine job . |
| 6 | Richard Baxter summed up his life in these words , ‘ Weakness and pain helped me to study how to die ; that set me on studying how to live ; beginning with necessities , I proceeded by degrees , and now I am going to see that for which I have lived and studied . ’ |
| 7 | I also thank the hunting fraternity for their documentary they sent me on hunting the facts . |
| 8 | Remember I asked you this morning to just just after lunch to jot down what it was that you need to improve on just as you 're setting the clock just say something like by the end of this talk I 'd like you to congratulate me on having moved around a bit more having not put me hands in me pockets , whatever it might be . |
| 9 | I was still a little niggled at his not congratulating me on beating his British record . |
| 10 | The first thing that struck me on listening to the new debut album by Sam Brown was her voice ; no syrupy coyness here , just a warm direct immediacy which is absolutely winning . |
| 11 | The blast from a phalanx of heaters struck me on opening the door . |
| 12 | Q Please could you advise me on keeping and breeding Cherry Barbs ? |