Example sentences of "me in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wilde 's transgressive aesthetic simultaneously confirmed and exploited this inextricable connection between the sexual and the ( apparently ) non-sexual , between sexual perversion and social subversion , and does so through Wilde 's own version of that connection : ‘ what paradox was to me in the sphere of thought , perversity became to me in the sphere of passion ’ ( Wilde , De Profundis , 466 ) . |
| 2 | Wilde 's transgressive aesthetic simultaneously confirmed and exploited this inextricable connection between the sexual and the ( apparently ) non-sexual , between sexual perversion and social subversion , and does so through Wilde 's own version of that connection : ‘ what paradox was to me in the sphere of thought , perversity became to me in the sphere of passion ’ ( Wilde , De Profundis , 466 ) . |
| 3 | He put his arms around me in the bear-hug of a joyous boy who had suddenly become a man . |
| 4 | Started at that 's right , yes and er I did and er they put me in the machine shop filing keyhole and Those times they had to be all cast over the rim locks and all that , now they 've made for us and all that . |
| 5 | I felt myself falling and begged them , ‘ Please , do n't put me in the truck . ’ |
| 6 | You do n't want me in the harness room , do you . |
| 7 | Gaitskell never adopted me in the sense that Harold Wilson did later , but I became quite close to him and he employed me in quasi-political matters . |
| 8 | I mean I 've filled in a few forms for them but I mean probably you 're a passive owner like me in the sense that I do n't go and actively trade them , er I keep them in a long term investment , and that 's it . |
| 9 | Somehow he managed to make it fun , the way he made so many things fun , and , now he was either dead or else taken over by some force I could not even begin to understand , there was nothing whatsoever to keep me in the Church . |
| 10 | It 's only one o nine , I 'm gon na get some out for me in the church , next week . |
| 11 | Mum and Dad were all tight and not saying much and Annie just chatted away to me in the back and Simon kept licking at the suitcase like it was a bone or summat . |
| 12 | There were no brakes , and if I had stumbled , then the bar that ran between the shafts behind me would have caught me in the back and either dragged me along or knocked me to the ground . |
| 13 | He kissed me in the back of the car while we waited for the others , but nothing moved in me . |
| 14 | I see , you criticize my appearance , and then you stab me in the back ! |
| 15 | Reg Pybus , with his gun at my head , is always ready to stab me in the back though , and eighteen unlucky defeats has given him plenty of ammunition . |
| 16 | ‘ You wander into my life with your lies and arrogance , tell me to pull myself together , and then proceed to stab me in the back ! ’ |
| 17 | He puts me in the back seat with my coat over my knees . |
| 18 | If only I were capable of taking over Swift myself , but I 'm not , I never was , I never will be — I just could n't face it , all the pressure , the ruthless cut-throat ambition of everyone trying to stab me in the back and take my place … |
| 19 | They pulled me up off the floor with my hands up behind my back and they were walking me out of the chemist with my arms up and my head pushed down and one of them was kicking me in the back of my legs to get me over to the car . |
| 20 | Is there enough room for me in the back , and Neil ? |
| 21 | He was only about two meters away from me and he was like shooting me in the back . |
| 22 | He would instruct me in the history of the world while the people of the world walked by , ignoring the salvation we offered them , and the icy wind blew around our ankles . |
| 23 | The Management was waiting for me in the lounge of his magnificent suite . |
| 24 | He was sitting beside me in the jump seat or that generally occupied by a second pilot because in those days there were no flight engineers on twin-engined aircraft . |
| 25 | ‘ Only one thing of importance happened to me in the Argentine . |
| 26 | The policeman who had kicked me in the groin began to slap Russell around the head . |
| 27 | ‘ Oh , it 's you , ’ she said , and kneed me in the groin . |
| 28 | On the climb-out at 100 ft there was a loud explosion and a lump of metal attached to a control wire whipped round and caught me in the groin . |
| 29 | Well he was poking me in the groin . |
| 30 | Poverty also brought up romantic visions of the struggling artist , fewer demands and expectations , and the kind of hard-headed practicality that was bred into me in the North of England . |