Example sentences of "[verb] [v-ing] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 're enjoying seeing me laid low , are n't you ? ’ she snapped testily . |
| 2 | I hung up the plastic sheet I had left soaking , rolled away those that had dried , scrubbed dried plaster from the table with the special remover , and wondered wearily how much longer it would be before the scent of wet plaster stopped reminding me of Marcus . |
| 3 | Samantha starts necking Bob , and then starts necking me . |
| 4 | So , she starts quizzing me and I start nattering on about the bloody Brontes — I think Mrs Fleming must 've been really intelligent when she was young , honest-to-god she was firing them at me faster than Bamber Gascoigne , she says to me : ‘ And tell me , Karen , how are you going to deal with the themes of Repressed Sexuality in the Brontes ' work ? ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Also , after this injury , I doubt very much whether Wigan will even consider releasing me to come down here again . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Also , after this injury , I doubt very much whether Wigan will even consider releasing me to come here again . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Did you enjoy trapping me in the library ? ’ asked Mr Fractor . |
| 8 | and so he frequently tried conducting me that way . |
| 9 | The number of sleepless nights I 've had over that smooth bastard moving in and Jozef kicking me out of bed . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Do n't you think you ought to wait until you 're well to try seducing me ? ’ |
| 11 | When my elder son was born and I was having difficulty in breast-feeding him , my mother sympathised with me and told me that , just after I was born , she had had an abscess on one of her breasts and found feeding me something of an ordeal . |
| 12 | ‘ I should think Dane will enjoy embracing me in this outfit , do n't you ? ’ |
| 13 | The R.S. he had had so proudly stamped on the front was fading now , and the leather strap had almost worn through , so lately I had been carrying the satchel under my arm : Tata would never have considered buying me a new one while the . |
| 14 | ‘ She tried kicking me out of the classroom . |
| 15 | And how would he be able to bear having me around , working for him ? |
| 16 | Suddenly , the other evening , he starts asking me about all the new sorts of mobile phone on the market — how they work , what their range is , how much they cost . |
| 17 | Would you consider letting me do my dad 's job for you ? ’ |
| 18 | ‘ For your information , I 've still got most of my own teeth and only have to use a walking frame when it 's damp and my arthritis starts giving me gyp . |
| 19 | ‘ If , at any time , sir — you would consider giving me — us — access to the correspondence — we could tell you what was there — what its significance to scholarship was — whether an edition might be possible . |
| 20 | ‘ You would n't consider giving me a clue as to what this is all about ? ’ |
| 21 | ‘ My suspicions were confirmed when Dr Kingdom stopped giving me material for Heather 's file . |
| 22 | I was tired of people I did n't know knowing me . |
| 23 | She tried undressing me again and I said no , she 'd better go , that I 'd changed my mind . |
| 24 | My father tried making me a wooden train , but that did n't satisfy me , as I wanted something that worked . |
| 25 | He 's making it sound as if I was stretched on a couch , locked in a room with a ‘ Do not disturb ’ sign on the door while Sir Matt , the doc and a priest I have certainly never met , got to work straightening me out , socially , medically and religiously . |
| 26 | Even if he had wanted to try unmasking me , he would n't have dared . |
| 27 | ‘ Once I 'd learned to fight , it stopped bothering me . |
| 28 | He stopped bothering me , I 'd given him something more important to worry about . |
| 29 | She loves telling me " Prevention is better than cure " , but she wo n't tell the rest . |
| 30 | I mean , I 've been living this guy for three weeks now and Vic starts telling me how to speak ? |