Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] me [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " My mother is threatening to dismiss all the staff unless I tell her which one of them admitted me back into the house last night . |
| 2 | Then someone tipped me off about a US material used for bow and kite strings . ’ |
| 3 | Someone rang me up on a phone-in programme , and he said ‘ I read your book , I think it 's absolutely disgusting . ’ |
| 4 | Finally , can someone fill me in on Carl Shutt . |
| 5 | If I was to give my life to this orchestra then I could not allow that someone throw me out at a moment 's notice . |
| 6 | er , when you know you go home and lying on the doormat on the Friday night is a great tome of paper that came second post which made me out to be the biggest idiot philanderer , thief , cheat and liar in the world |
| 7 | Mine varied from too large to too small but I was encouraged by the laughter of the women around me and their urging me on with ‘ good , good ’ or ‘ work , work ’ . |
| 8 | I had heard the bell toll … the wave of ecstasy which drove me on to this shore had pressed me into a dark , dull interior . |
| 9 | ‘ It was an old-fashioned impulse which drove me back to my own room before the house staff and my other guests awoke . |
| 10 | He admires in Horace ‘ the beauty , force and vehemence of Impression : which leads me on to a more rare and entertaining subject , not anywhere ( I think ) insisted on by others ’ . |
| 11 | Which takes me back to my opening images . |
| 12 | For one thing I learned to cope with it better and then , well , I started growing and nobody singled me out for ridicule any more . |
| 13 | In 1986 I cultivated new ambitions which took me out of the British orbit and on to a higher plane . |
| 14 | There was a split second of violent clattering as cannon shells hit the machine and then I was clear , and in a 270° turn which took me back across my flight path and into the safety of that wonderful cloud . |
| 15 | Why somebody lets me down like that . |
| 16 | And I 'll need somebody to wake me up for work tomorrow . ’ |
| 17 | But yet again instinct , or something even more mysterious , has sent up ( or down ) that warning pulse which jerks me back into wary consciousness . |
| 18 | Well I was just tidying myself up , och just a week lick of lipstick and a puffa blusher basically when I noticed that my mascara was on its last legs so I had to remind myself to stop by at Frazers Innoxa counter as any other tearproof bar theirs brings me out in lumps , so to cut a long story short I just nicked in the sidedoor — honest to god I was festooned with carriers laden down like a workhouse donkey — and I 'd to cut through the shoe department . |
| 19 | Which brings me on to the major bookshop sellers , led by two strong titles : |
| 20 | Which brings me back to Mr Kinnock . |
| 21 | Which brings me back to the sermon with which I started . |
| 22 | One can fly for less than that in the USA , which brings me back to that vexed question . |
| 23 | Which brings me back to that word — discretion . |
| 24 | ‘ It can be , ’ he agreed , ‘ which brings me back to your pictures . |
| 25 | I want you to drive me down to the railway station in about half an hour . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ You got me out of gaol . |
| 27 | ‘ When I thanked you just now , by the way , it was because you got me out of the boat before I hit the water this time . ’ |
| 28 | But her eyes were fail of pain as she led me through to the lounge . |
| 29 | But Susan hit back saying : ‘ She made me out to be some ditsy small-town mum who wanted to meet a star . |
| 30 | ‘ I suppose she made me out to be a right little idiot , ’ says Anya . |