Example sentences of "me [adv] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The nineteen twenty six strike , the o the thing that struck me most of all was , they were going to out the railway men . |
| 2 | A Minister of the Crown told me once of being present at a Cabinet committee meeting when she disagreed with her then chancellor , Nigel Lawson , and sensed that the rest of those present were also against her . |
| 3 | And he put me off of that the other ones you gave me with the , what was it ? |
| 4 | ‘ For some reason I hate to lose , ’ said Chang , ‘ and that makes me more of a fighter . |
| 5 | Tell me more of it … |
| 6 | P.S. Tell me more of the brother and sister of sweet Shelley . |
| 7 | ‘ Now please show me more of marvellous Florence . ’ |
| 8 | I thought the dead whiteness of the dress made me more of a corpse than a bride but had n't enough energy to infuriate my mother by telling her so . |
| 9 | She reminds me more of All Souls ’ Eve than Christmas . |
| 10 | No , never tell me more of your goings and comings than is my due , I need only to know , as nearly as you may judge , how long I must bide here to wait for the answer . ’ |
| 11 | With his tousled hair and humorous expression , he reminded me slightly of Michael Heseltine , the English politician . |
| 12 | Nigel invited them all in for food and drink and listened spellbound to feats of derring-do , asking endless questions and reminding me slightly of the painting The Boyhood of Raleigh . |
| 13 | Sharon 's father talked to me both of the building and the killing of a community . |
| 14 | I know that we 're all in a state of shock and wondering where to place ourselves on the spectrum between quietism at one end and terrorism on the other , but , as a response to an altered environment , this reminded me appallingly of the turtles who , so the legend goes , were hatched on a Pacific atoll where a nuclear blast had been carried out . |
| 15 | Frank had accused me before of ‘ messing up ’ the relay , and had told me that the rest of the team were of the same opinion . |
| 16 | But these fine ladies and their tea-drinkings , husband-huntings , etc. , etc. , etc. , will job me out of the last ten years , and I fear miss getting husbands too . |
| 17 | — Now you shall see , but take this by the way — He came home this Morning at his usual Hour of Four , waken 'd me out of a sweet Dream of something else , by tumbling over the Tea-table , which he broke all to pieces , after his Man and he had rowl 'd about the Room like sick Passengers in a Storm , he comes flounce into Bed , dead as a Salmon into a Fishmonger 's Basket ; his Feet cold as Ice , his Breath hot as a Furnace , and his hands and Face as greasy as his Flanel Night-cap. — O Matrimony ! |
| 18 | I was always terribly shy and I was sent to what were known as elocution lessons — to get me out of myself . |
| 19 | Wo n't let me out of his sight for a minute , he said . |
| 20 | He hurriedly ushered me out of the room . |
| 21 | My illness kept me out of action for a fortnight so it was fully three weeks after the demise of my job before I finally went down to my local Department of Employment offices and ‘ signed on ’ . |
| 22 | ‘ Well , it gets me out of the house . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ It 'll keep me out of the pub , dear , ’ said Jay . |
| 24 | ‘ Are you getting me out of bed at this hour to talk to me about my brother ? ’ she demanded . |
| 25 | It was Reg Hollinshead and Steve Norton who snapped me out of it . |
| 26 | It was the Officer who had turfed me out of the church yesterday when I was playing the bagpipes . |
| 27 | He must have sensed that I was looking at him , he suddenly glanced at me out of the corner of his eyes and , still cleaning the mess tin with his finger , he said quietly , ‘ Why are you staring at me like that , Piper ? |
| 28 | It just takes me out of the house for an hour or two . ’ |
| 29 | He got me out of the stream and a bit further back from the drop to our right . |
| 30 | The attendances of these three parties , leaving me out of the reckoning altogether , summed to 49 . |