Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] me [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any excuse got me out of the office . |
| 2 | Phil , his ever-cheerful self , telling me he has stood up his girlfriend to see me through till the end . |
| 3 | ‘ We had breakfast and Mummy dropped me off at the playground , ’ Verena told police . |
| 4 | When it was time to leave and I was waiting for the car to take me back to the station for the journey back , I have to confess that I shed a tear or two . |
| 5 | The first yard took all the effort I could manage , creeping a toe 's length at a time , my rubber soles slipping on the loose stones , as the wheelbarrow pushed me back to where I had been and we fell over . |
| 6 | We got a same day driver picking me up at five fo , five thirty outside the hotel . |
| 7 | The concussion of the exploding wave drove me down like a steam hammer . |
| 8 | I span my Phazer round , the wave lifted me up towards God , and I rose to my feet . |
| 9 | Oh , when she came with the baby and the young girl to see me off at the station , I was unable to speak . |
| 10 | Eventually The Fat Controller pulled me up in front of a viciously scalped hedge of box . |
| 11 | And Merson revealed : ‘ The boss called me in on Monday and told me that it would be best if I played in the reserves on Tuesday rather than travel with the squad to Blackburn . |
| 12 | The District Military Council sent me over to the Area Military Commissariat as an adviser , but these young men do n't want an old man 's advice . |
| 13 | Barry might well be back any second to get me out of this . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I do n't want the feckin' Gardai pullin' me up for drunken drivin' . ’ |
| 15 | The sound of a running stream invited me over to a bridge . |
| 16 | At school , I 'd write rude poems for my mates so , when a teacher turned me on to Linton Kwesi Johnson , it was like ‘ Yes ! ’ ’ |
| 17 | And skipping the Weight Watchers classes the missus put me in for . |
| 18 | A post in Italy , the nature of which I never fully learnt , save that it would be of sufficient importance to take me out of uniform if I were in it , fell through with Italy 's declaration of war . |
| 19 | Eruptions of demand for really cheap transport take me back to student days , when a lack of wheels was a disaster . |
| 20 | I have to go to bed early and then Mum gets me up in the morning she 's going get up ! |
| 21 | My route takes me up into the Chiltern foothills , and a labyrinth of green lanes . |
| 22 | I lit a cigarette , whose first jab doubled me up with an unmufflable bark of outrage from my lungs . |
| 23 | I was sure that his status as head of the herd helped me out in an unpleasant encounter . |
| 24 | They vied with each other to fill me in on the gruesome details . |
| 25 | ‘ Then I asked a girl friend to fix me up with someone . |
| 26 | A few weeks ago a friend took me back to Dieniolen , near Bangor . |
| 27 | When , in 1974 an American friend brought me over from the States a copy of Elizabeth Gould-Davis 's The First Sex , I had a scholar 's confirmation of my conclusions . |
| 28 | I shall not , however , let my hon. Friend hold me back during the few minutes that I shall use to unbridle myself . |
| 29 | ‘ My parents might have spent every penny they earned on helping their out-of-work friends , but Gran brought me up to be thrifty and never to get into debt . ’ |
| 30 | My priestly friend set me down outside the two cathedrals and I bade him a fond farewell . |