Example sentences of "me [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm sorry , you have been subsidizing me rather a lot lately . ’ |
| 2 | Recently I have noticed my fiancé 's brother is showing me rather a lot of attention . |
| 3 | I often notice him looking at me and paying me rather a lot of compliments . |
| 4 | On a lighter note a fellow worker approached me only a couple of months ago er , the new European directive almost ruined his holiday he then explained he booked up to take his family to EuroDisney . |
| 5 | One room he showed me only a glimpse of , a lumber-room . |
| 6 | Suggesting that Murrin should be ‘ wired up ’ when he meets me , Hounam says anything which earns me only a slap on the wrist would n't be enough . |
| 7 | If he did n't hear me go outside , he wo n't hear me open a can or two , will he ? |
| 8 | In previous years I have n't had a class on the and I thought I had one this year as an experiment and er , pardon me just a second hello yes , that was a little annoying to say the least , cos those students have come in specially for that , yeah , yeah yeah yeah yeah right Oh dear right certainly not well , would it be easier to show them in my office , that 's seven , seven , seven ? |
| 9 | If you give me just a second … a second or two … just … ’ |
| 10 | I only live a few doors down the road from Derek and normally it would have taken me just a minute or two , but on this occasion it seemed to take ages . |
| 11 | Olga took a room for me just a mile north of Park Terrace — but in another world , the world of rooming houses . |
| 12 | ‘ Well , you can pay me just a bit ’ . |
| 13 | ‘ Please indulge me just a moment , ’ he said . |
| 14 | He glanced at his watch , became distracted : ‘ Forgive me just a moment — kitchen duties . |
| 15 | Member will give me just a moment to finish the point that I am making I shall come to that . |
| 16 | a week and he has n't phoned me once a year |
| 17 | I do not recollect that we ever tried it , although my father did bring me home a bottle containing two or three sticks of white phosphorus , at the same time showing me the mark on his thigh where , so he said , a piece of phosphorus has fallen while he was attempting to write on a wall with it . |
| 18 | So Adam and Eve they go and hide , but it 's not just Adam and Eve , but it 's every one of us , they 're just pictures , they 're representatives of you and of me , they are the federal head of the human race , and Paul with his writing in Romans three , and verse twenty three reminds us , and J B Phillips in his translation , he puts it like this he says every one has sinned , every one falls short of the beauty of God 's plan , that plan , that purpose that God had , not just for creation , not just for humanity in general , but for you as an individual , that purpose that God had , that beautiful plan , far better than you can could work out , out for yourself falling short of it , we 've marred it , we have n't come up to it , if that circle represented just as a diagram as a picture , God 's plan God 's beautiful plan for you and for me still a circle , but dented here , bashed in there |
| 19 | of all , preserv 'd me still A Poet , made me seek |
| 20 | He takes me aside a couple of times and begins in a soft Welsh lilt : ‘ I was thinking , now this might not be a good idea and tell me straight away if you do n't like it … ’ |
| 21 | ‘ And thus he continued ’ , writes Baxter , ‘ raging against me about a year , and then died of a fever in horror of conscience . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ What happened was Chester Thompson brought them all down , because he had met me about a year prior to that and we just corresponded . |
| 23 | Take it away and bring me about a quarter of it . ’ |
| 24 | It takes me about a quarter of an hour to walk briskly to work — the maddening thing is that I do not bring so that walking is reduced rather as my feet get tired in the heat , and we have had some really hot and humid days . |
| 25 | I understand that you will be faxing to me today a request for banker 's details and credit references . |
| 26 | Or , imagine that the lights go out as Harry has just begun saying : ( 2 ) Listen , I 'm not disagreeing with you but with you , and not about this but about this Or , Suppose we find a bottle in the sea , and inside it a message which reads : ( 3 ) Meet me here a week from now with a stick about this big We do not know who to meet , where or when to meet him or her , or how big a stick to bring . |
| 27 | For example , in Levinson 's ( 1983 ) well-known deictic utterance , Meet me here a week from now with a stick about this big , there are certain words , such as me , here , now and this , which have part of their meaning which is context-sensitive . |
| 28 | ‘ Even though John has a busy and demanding job as planning manager at Broadgreen Hospital , he would be up with me twice a night to feed the babies , Andrew and Daniel . |
| 29 | ‘ Even though John has a busy and demanding job as planning manager at Broadgreen Hospital , he would be up with me twice a night to feed the babies , Andrew and Daniel . |
| 30 | Perkin 's absence was to me almost a shock , so accustomed had I become to his being there . |