Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] me [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I was gon na say you could 've dropped me off at grandma 's . |
| 2 | " You helped stop me getting the directorship , now you want to drive me out of the Lab . " |
| 3 | I went over to Sheridan to ask him to be quiet and he grabbed my wrist and tried to pull me on to his lap , and I overbalanced and fell and hit the table hard where he was sitting , and I caught the cloth somehow and pulled it with me and everything on it landed on the floor . |
| 4 | ‘ He has won me back to him . ’ |
| 5 | He promised to adopt the same approach to councillorship ‘ which has seen me through as a councillor for 20 years with 11 of these as county councillor . ’ |
| 6 | Then she tried to talk me out of leaving — laid on the flattery with a trowel . ’ |
| 7 | I had rehearsed all the routine for the South America job , then I just got a bit panicky ; the captain tried to talk me back into it . |
| 8 | She has opened me up to the world of tennis , although I do admit that I only take an interest because of her . |
| 9 | The number of sleepless nights I 've had over that smooth bastard moving in and Jozef kicking me out of bed . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Our physio Jim Walker was great for me , tried to cheer me up by explaining that Mark Hughes had the same problem when he returned to Manchester United from Barcelona . |
| 11 | ‘ Our physio Jim Walker was great for me , tried to cheer me up by explaining that Mark Hughes had the same problem when he returned to Manchester United from Barcelona . |
| 12 | ‘ She tried kicking me out of the classroom . |
| 13 | ‘ This has set me up for the rest of the season and now I can have a real crack at the England squad , ’ he said . |
| 14 | ‘ In the cruel manner in which she tried to prise me out of my home . ’ |
| 15 | They tried to lift me out of my depression . |
| 16 | Fincara has cast me out of Undersea for my treachery ; and now I am dying . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ She wants to marry me off to you , ’ he said , ‘ and she 's in love with me ? |
| 18 | Yeah , because you tried to beat me up behind Mrs ! |
| 19 | Exercises 1–3 were designed to get me out of a rut in my playing . |
| 20 | ‘ It has put me back on the golf course , ’ he said . |
| 21 | Ms Fiona Reynolds of the Council for National Parks has kept me up to date with the progress of the EEC 's Agricultural Structures Review . |
| 22 | ‘ He wants to take me out to dinner tonight , ’ Alexandra could not resist adding . |
| 23 | Other than a double-dealing traitor who has chiselled me out of my dues , while throwing out lures to throw dust in my eyes ! ’ |
| 24 | I 'd repeat my name — and as I got really far from shore I 'd say ‘ Ng ’ or ‘ Adolph ’ — to try to bring me back inside myself . |
| 25 | Once when I was leaving for Europe , he came to see me off at the airport , bringing a parting gift . |
| 26 | Oddly enough , one of Pierre Salinger 's researchers , Linda Mack , while trying to check me out , had talked to another of their staffers , David Mills — the former Newsweek photographer who 'd looked me up on Cyprus in 1987 and sold some pictures to Hurley . |
| 27 | And er I got involved on national registration and er , on one occasion , we were working , we 'd got a deadline and we were working through the weekend , and my wife came to pick me up at what she thought was a reasonable time , at one o'clock on Saturday , found she was given a cup of tea and set to work , and we finished , going home about midnight . . |
| 28 | I was looking for then features ed James Brown , who 'd phoned me up on the strength of Issue One of my fanzine This Is This ( which went on to sell in excess of 30 copies to my friends and family ) . |
| 29 | I thought they 'd hung me up by my arms , ’ he began , and then he stopped short , remembering that the Punishment Squad could not do that to a crippled man with one arm . |
| 30 | I just said ‘ Yes ? ’ and as I dropped the pen she 'd handed me back into her bag , I noticed that she carried at least two fat rolls of ten-pound notes secured with circular gold clips shaped like salamanders , or maybe alligators . |