Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | So lavish there , she 'd none to spare for me ? |
| 2 | Since the thrice-weekly visit of the ferry brought all the island 's mail and supplies , and the post office was very small , the place was crowded , and the postmistress , busily sorting through a pile of mail and newspapers , while exchanging two days ' news in Gaelic with the ferry 's master , had no glance to spare for me . |
| 3 | He declines and asks whether I want him to wait for me . |
| 4 | I was passing over a hill when Idris drove past me , hooting , and pointing to the valley where he was obviously going to wait for me . |
| 5 | ‘ Are n't you going to wait for me to give you a lift ? ’ |
| 6 | As she turned to wait for me at the end of the path , I felt I was looking at her for the first time : her face paler than her arms , a blonde shadow on her upper lip , no lipstick . |
| 7 | She appeared to wait for me to go on . |
| 8 | Our return DMU entering the station as we disembarked with the comfortable words from our guard — ‘ No hurry , now — it has to wait for me ! ’ |
| 9 | I said I would be delighted to join them if I could wake up in time ( which I doubted ) , I said not to wait for me , and they promised they would n't . |
| 10 | I grinned wickedly back and told Benjamin to wait for me in the street outside . |
| 11 | It will have to wait for me , like a newly opened birthday present while you go off to school . |
| 12 | You 've had to wait for me I 'm afraid . |
| 13 | Are you going to go for me ? |
| 14 | ‘ He 'll come out to search for me , ’ thought Giles , ‘ and bring the neighbours too . |
| 15 | I could only speculate whether the industrial activity required to produce the clock radio and the telephone they wanted to give me , and all the ongoing activity to service those industries and their customers , would not cause more pollution , lead to more acid rain , and so destroy more trees than the one they planned to plant for me . |
| 16 | Leavis 's Great Tradition is headed by a motto from a letter of D. H. Lawrence declaring that writing makes him feel as if he ‘ stood naked for the fire of Almighty God to go through me . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ You 'll have to go through me first , ’ warned fitzAlan , his voice low with menace . |
| 18 | too idle , too stupid , too drunk or too arrogant to see through me and |
| 19 | ‘ I told you in my letter last week that I wanted you to arrange for me to meet him . |
| 20 | I lie and ask him to comfort M and D and Minny , and Caroline who must feel so guilty and everyone else , even the ones it would do good to suffer for me ( or for anyone else ) . |
| 21 | ‘ I did n't want him to come for me . |
| 22 | ‘ I went home and got on with my work expecting them to come for me any day or night . ’ |
| 23 | First she was on her own with Rose and some of the women , then they sent for the midwife , who did n't turn up , and only after that did they think to come for me . |
| 24 | Well if you were going to come for me you 've got to drive and that and he 's still not up yet today , so I , I have to get Arthur to draw some money |
| 25 | I do n't think they knew how to write for me as they did for Jackie and Russ [ William Russell ] . |
| 26 | I do not know who I can get to write for me . |
| 27 | But a strong feeling persisted , when I swung my feet off the ground and lay back , that something was trying to slip between me and reality . |
| 28 | What will they want to know about me ? |
| 29 | But I still needed to know about me . |
| 30 | Of course I got nowhere and she found out all she cared to know about me ( though not about my friends ) . |