Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] [conj] [verb] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was doing interviews with any newspaper or magazine that approached me and some had printed contact numbers for the Friends . |
| 2 | or intent that makes me pause , turn back ; |
| 3 | My heart tells me of a perfect flower in the centre of the garden and I move along the pathways , stopping to drink in some new and dazzling sight or scent that arrests me . |
| 4 | No you keep all that paraphernalia but give me that . |
| 5 | It denies the intervention of my inner teacher on my behalf , because I close the door within and block the light that would dissipate the darkness that angers and frightens me . |
| 6 | But it was the glory of Sgurr an Lochain , faceted and sculpted in ice and snow and with golden light gleaming from its snowfields and cornices that entranced me . |
| 7 | It screeches to a halt beside me , three guys get out , blindfold me , tie me hand and foot and bundle me into the van . |
| 8 | The next day , before a meeting with the United Nations electoral observer team , Ortega parted the sea of cameramen and journalists and approached me . |
| 9 | He bustled about with champagne flutes and ice and showed me how to fold a napkin round the neck of a bottle and how to pour without drips . |
| 10 | This monolith sat atop an escarpment which accommodated the raking of the auditorium and the levelled hardcore of a car park , and cast its long shadow over an adjacent bit of parkland , a cosy corner of scrub , stream and wood that drew me and my friends to it like a magnet . |
| 11 | For my good lady loved singing and dancing and made me learn both . |
| 12 | You are the only woman I know — apart from Lucy — who wears skirts and dresses and make-up and turns me on more powerful than a monsoon with all the steam and heat … |
| 13 | When Polybius and Scipio found themselves alone in the neighbourhood of the Forum ( Polybius goes on to tell us ) Scipio , " blushing slightly , addressed him in a quiet and gentle way : " Why , Polybius , since there are two of us , do you constantly converse with my brother and address to him all the questions and explanations but ignore me ? " " ( 31.23.8–9 ) . |
| 14 | Can you advise me about the pros and cons and tell me the best way to retain their copper finish ? |
| 15 | The thing here was that all the flowers were blue — delphiniums and cornflowers and forget me nots round a sundial in the middle of a smooth green velvet lawn . |
| 16 | For winter barbelling potential then it 's the deep slacks and eddies that interest me . |
| 17 | One day I was in the wheelchair and people were talking to John and Jo but ignoring me . |
| 18 | Were I to tell that story to my own son and tell him too of the subsequent shame and guilt that haunted me for months and is still so deeply etched in my memory , he would laugh and wonder what it was all about . |
| 19 | He thought it was great fun to throw me about and wrestle with me and punch and kick me . |
| 20 | ‘ He got a pen and paper and told me : ‘ I have to reply immediately to the Queen thanking her ’ . |
| 21 | ‘ A few minutes later two guys came running in with masks on they were both shouting and swearing and told me to lie on the ground . |
| 22 | But the cornice offers no aid and he tumbles and slithers down once more , cursing and swearing and showering me in snow . |
| 23 | They 'd be sorry for me , they 'd give me whisky and aspirins and send me to a psychiatrist . |
| 24 | ‘ When my grandparents came on holiday with us , he was the one who took us round castles and museums and told me stories about being in the Scots Guards , ’ said Marjory , who inherited most of his books when he died two years ago . |
| 25 | You women are all the same — a man just has to turn the corner of the street and the next thing , they 're all eyes and lips and tongue and sucking me ’ — he tripped , changed ‘ sucking him towards them . |
| 26 | ‘ They acted as judge and jury and suspended me for ten weeks without a trial . |
| 27 | She reached between her and Aline and handed me a half-finished bottle of Irn-Bru . |
| 28 | He has already stopped me from saving up for a large format SLR camera ; my trusty 35-mm model will do well enough for the closeups of butterflies and flowers that interest me . |
| 29 | I should be grateful if you would investigate this as a matter of importance and urgency and let me know your findings . |
| 30 | I sat at the kitchen table , staring at the blind white blankness in front of me , and slowly , like a clear spring welling up from the common earth , the poem rose and spread and filled me , unstoppable as flood water , technique unknotting even as it ran , like snags rolled away on the flood . |