Example sentences of "[prep] me [conj] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Almost as many people turned up for me as had for Youngman . |
| 2 | Dear Boy , It must be very difficult for you sometimes I expect not having anyone and having to do all the shopping and cooking for yourself I know that when I was working I certainly could not have managed on my own , coming home tired and then making dinner your own dinner and then going upstairs to do some more work , what sort of life is that , though I know all about that because of course I did do that for three years almost , and I know how much happier I was when I knew there was someone waiting for me and having the dinner ready and keeping the house clean and all those things , or perhaps you people do n't think those things are important . |
| 3 | I am often asked to lead seminars on a topic which has been chosen for me and has a ti tie like ‘ coming to terms with our own mortality ’ . |
| 4 | I remember dad running after me and having a long conversation trying to make me understand . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ At the moment she enjoys flying around the world after me and having a child would make that more difficult . |
| 6 | I consider joining the retreating pair below me but have no harness for the abseil , so I settle down to wait while the climber above seconds the pitch . |
| 7 | As though intense emotions — jealousy , rage , unreasoning desire — are all the parts of me that have always been missing . ’ |
| 8 | Er but I used to tell people and they you know people near me that had a lot of children and er they 'd moan and groan about it , I heard one woman say erm , she 'd had quite a few children and I I 'd been in hospital and I said er , er a certain person that 'd had a baby had lost it . |
| 9 | In a few hours I felt reborn and replete with new powers , washed clean and cured of a long sickness , finally ready to enter life with joy and vigour ; equally cured was suddenly the world around me , and exorcised the name and face of the woman who had gone down into the lower depths with me and had not returned . |
| 10 | The flight engineer , who had been at Halton as all apprentice with me and had left and later returned to the Air Force , complained bitterly as I was making all the preparations for take-off , but I ignored him . |
| 11 | I took your violets home with me and have them in a vase in my room , and Mrs Gracie the housekeeper ( who owns the pug ) takes them out at night as she says they poison the air when one is asleep . |
| 12 | So stay with me and have a go . |
| 13 | There 's a young woman of 17 who lives just down the road from me and has taken to calling on me of late . |
| 14 | You need n't worry any more , because you arouse nothing in me and have n't done for many a year . |
| 15 | But to me that has got to be the same thing . |
| 16 | When I started in the Preliminary Training School two and a half years ago my aunt had passed Little Ben on to me and had my name engraved beneath hers and grandfather 's on the back . |
| 17 | The Daily Telegraph carried a long story without mentioning my name , since Michael Berry was well disposed to me and had no wish to cause me embarrassment . |
| 18 | A whole new world of animal study lay open to me and has continued to excite me ever since . |
| 19 | He would not state his business , but he had come here to find you , and came to me as having been advertised as executor of Lady Merchiston 's will . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ After I went to immigration ’ , recalls Rita , ‘ and I told them I was separated because my husband abused me , I thought they would look down on me and have more sympathy , and see what they can do . |
| 21 | Zak was nodding his mop of curls beside me and had begun snapping his fingers rather fast . |
| 22 | My right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary is sitting beside me and has heard my hon. Friend 's question . |
| 23 | Also there 's been friends and people around me that have helped make things easier . |