Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] me " in BNC.
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1 | She can see right through me , he thought . |
2 | He glanced up once but looked right through me , and there was panic and disaster in his eyes . |
3 | And as Lucy walked into the house , Paula looked right through me . |
4 | ‘ What are you staring at ? ’ she said She had a pathetic , ruined , smoky kind of voice that used to go right through me . |
5 | She stared right through me . |
6 | Here was I absolutely totally visible to the naked eye , and your friend looked right through me . |
7 | I give you my word … right through me as if I were a bloody ghost . |
8 | I kept seeing her slamming into the car , and lying in the road , and then I saw all those black nuns floating round her and lifting her up so that her head lolled back , and I was there , wanting to say I was sorry , and her eyes were open and blank and staring right through me . |
9 | The release of flame had swirled right through me . |
10 | Oh my god it sounds weird , oh it goes right through me . |
11 | " I bought Grace myself while he was away , with just about all the money we 'd got left , to have somewhere for me and the girls . " |
12 | Can you just put that orangejuice somewhere for me please . |
13 | Gleam-surges to and fro through me |
14 | ‘ Last season finished badly for me , now I 've got the chance to put it right , ’ he says . |
15 | I mean if eggs are n't cooked properly for me |
16 | He tells me that the National Front 's ‘ a load of rubbish ’ , that politicians are ‘ a waste of time ’ and that when he sees his nan , … ‘ she 's always on about me getting a job . |
17 | Besides , ’ she added craftily , ‘ if you go back and prattle on about me , you 'll certainly be … what did you call it ? |
18 | ‘ I 'm being unfair , gabbling on about me and Maria Luisa when things did n't go right for you and Fernando . |
19 | We are Muslims and my husband is my cousin , so from the point of view of tradition it is all right for me to marry him . |
20 | Miss said it was all right for me to say my own prayer . |
21 | I was playing well , but nothing would go right for me . |
22 | ‘ No member of the staff was permitted to leave the building unless he had telephoned Chapman 's office at six o'clock and enquired : ‘ Is it all right for me to go now , Mr Chapman ? ’ |
23 | That happens to be all right for me because I do not have to commute regularly but it could be a consideration . |
24 | Niki 's statement is cut-throat in its clarity : ‘ If he [ Daniele ] is to give the orders , he must make the right decisions : right for me , for the team , for success . ’ |
25 | I put it back in the trunk , disappointed that there was nothing right for me to wear and wondering what I was going to do , for I wanted to go out with Sally . |
26 | ‘ It just seems not a lot has been going right for me this season . |
27 | Nothing much has gone right for me since January when I was injured in a car crash . |
28 | It still left me feeling sickened by the whole human race , until some devoted parent , husband , wife , or adult child of an elderly parent put things right for me by spending days and nights at a bedside . |
29 | ‘ You 're the only one who can put things right for me . ’ |
30 | It 's all right for me , I like tinkering with things , I can be useful , but the rest of them , well … all they 've really got to occupy themselves is grumbling , and they 've become really good at that . |