Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] me [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Bless you for helping me out with the Watsons . |
| 2 | I just want to say a big THANK YOU to the organisers and correspondents for keeping me up to date with the progress of THE WHITES this season . |
| 3 | I thought this was very unfair and erm , but then luckily really because erm I do n't think I would have let the job would have been difficult even if er I 'd had my wife as , for transporting me around to these various people . |
| 4 | You can keep your reason for hunting me down to yourself . ’ |
| 5 | Mr Broadhurst was by now in the habit of picking me up from Varndean Grammar on Wednesday afternoons , accompanying me to Pool Valley , and then on home by bus . |
| 6 | If there is trouble for them they will find a way of paying me back for revealing their names . |
| 7 | He made the mistake of letting me in on the ground floor when he was offering a Pissarro . |
| 8 | ‘ I was phoning to thank you for getting me out of police headquarters . ’ |
| 9 | Mr Gresty , whose business has been broken into several times , said : ‘ I am extremely grateful to the Army for getting me out of a very sticky situation . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ And you did very successfully , until your mother saddled you with taking me back to my hotel . ’ |
| 11 | I 'm going to be floating down river on this thing later this afternoon , so you do n't need to have any worries about letting me up on deck . ’ |
| 12 | Pink and blue drifted away , leaving green to chat for a few minutes — ‘ I jest lerved those cute red heels and hose you 'rived in ’ — before escorting me back to the changing room on the floor above . |
| 13 | ‘ They wasted no time in getting me up to the theatre , and after making the General promise not to take my arm off I gave a running commentary as the ether took effect . |
| 14 | A miserably dull , windy and cold Saturday morning beckoned for the last of my Island days and Ewen very kindly had given up his spare time to run me around the Stornoway locality before dropping me off at the airport . |
| 15 | By the third morning , however , I was so weak and the pain so unbearable that they had little difficulty in taking me up to the theatre and performing the necessary operation . |
| 16 | ‘ In very strong winds I ca n't prevent the sail from lifting me out of the water . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ How about taking me on as a lift attendant ? ’ |
| 18 | How about taking me out for a drink then ? |
| 19 | He 'd only met Bogie and I — over in the pub , the Dirty Duck , for about half an hour when he insisted on taking me round to Shakespeare 's birthplace . |
| 20 | He 'd better have a good reason for ringing me up on Christmas Day ! |
| 21 | Mind you , the accountant , C.J. Broderick , soon saw what was happening , but it took the best part of a year to re-arrange matters so that the newspaper could save money by hiring me back at $28 per week . |
| 22 | my dad this morning he woke me up by pulling me up by the hair , bashing my face into the pillow a couple of times , I just looked at , then go , and I looked at him |
| 23 | Bolinger ( 1974 : 75 ) presents the difference between ( 15a ) and ( 15b ) below as one of " immediate " vs " mediate " assistance : ( 15a ) He helped me climb the stairs by propping me up with his shoulder ( He climbed with me ) . |
| 24 | My brother could make me cry just by lifting me on to a five-foot-high garden trellis and leaving me there , so I was hardly a miniature Chris Bonnington . |