Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [vb mod] [verb] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hoped she would n't make a big production out of the delivery upstairs , but just in case she did I thought I would n't go anywhere where she could see me and point me out to any of the owners , so I left through the front exit gates and found the actors ' bus with its Mystery Race Train banner and faded inside into the reassembling troupe . |
| 2 | ‘ Is that where you would like me to be , Shiona ? ’ |
| 3 | I could meet you somewhere where you could show me . |
| 4 | Erm what , what I said to you earlier was that er at the very beginning where you could help me was if , if you found this of value to you , this service that I 've just provided , erm perhaps you could erm th there might be er some friends of yours that er you might find that this might be of beneficial to . |
| 5 | You bought it as somewhere where you could keep me , and that 's something quite different . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm going to catch a boat back to the mainland and I 'll be in my hotel where you can call me when you 've got a clean shirt for me . ’ |
| 7 | In fact , I hate playing in Britain because I 've always wanted to play in Spain or Belgium where they 'd understand me . |
| 8 | ‘ If we get one , we 'll have two bedrooms , so I 'll have me own window to look out of . |
| 9 | When I went out robbing , it 'd be the early hours of the morning , one or two in the morning , so nobody 'd notice me missing here . |
| 10 | As in example , the Theban Crates flung all his possessions into the sea saying I had rather drown you than you should drown me . |
| 11 | ‘ Maria is the oldest , so she will help me . |
| 12 | She wants to prove him wrong so she can slap me down . |
| 13 | ‘ I only came in on the red , raw minute , ’ she said , ‘ so you 'll excuse me , madam . ’ |
| 14 | Another long pause and , ‘ So you 'll call me soon , will you ? |
| 15 | ‘ Ah , so you would give me a different opinion at Walworth ? ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Nothing with you is the way it looks — so you would have me believe , ’ observed Marc with a sardonic downward glance . |
| 17 | ‘ Neither have I any time to waste , so you must excuse me if I cut out the preliminaries . ’ |
| 18 | Other people may keep talking at you as a means of reinforcing their relationship to you : ‘ I matter to you , so you must give me plenty of airtime . ’ |
| 19 | And , if you have n't been in a car before the driver drives , so you can give me what you owe . |
| 20 | I 'm not staying around just so you can use me as your verbal punch-bag again . |
| 21 | You brought me here — wherever here is — so you can get me back . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Silas is still longing to go to bed with me , so you can wish me luck that I 'll get him there eventually — but in the right circumstances , of course . ’ |
| 23 | How did you manage to persuade British Rail to allow you on to the train so you could drag me off ? ’ |
| 24 | That was just an excuse to throw us together so you could seduce me ! |
| 25 | ‘ Is that why you spirited me off — so you could ask me personal questions ? ’ |
| 26 | My whole being snags and crackles with broken glass , but that 's all right , because although they may smell me , nobody sees me and nobody knows me . |
| 27 | I almost feel I 've been sent here so they can teach me a lesson about life . |
| 28 | They want to bend me to their will like a factory machine , so they can scrap me when I wear out . |
| 29 | I also took the opportunity of giving them Mr Connon 's phone number so they could contact me if they wished . |
| 30 | Then I think : he 'll have worked that out as well , so he 'll expect me to go to the car . |