Example sentences of "me on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dragging the pad towards him he found a clean page and wrote : Dear Harsnet , I know you never answer my letters or return my calls , and I know that you handed over your notes to me on the understanding that I could do what I liked with them and not bother you , but I have to say that while there is much in them that I admire , as I will always admire much in you , no matter what , there is also much in them that seems to me to be puerile and , to put it mildly , bigoted . |
| 2 | Father spun round , took three steps towards me and smacked me on the ear . |
| 3 | Father appeared above me on the top step and I wrenched myself out of the man 's nasty fingers . |
| 4 | ‘ They let me on the train . ’ |
| 5 | She patted me on the shoulder . |
| 6 | She patted me on the back . |
| 7 | Pike shook my hand ; Forbes slapped me on the back . |
| 8 | In one week I listened to the English boy singing the praises of my dark colouring and frizzy hair , felt him kiss me on the cheek with obvious pleasure whenever I cooked a meal and when I came in from work , or when we sat watching television together , and found him waiting for me at the end of the road when I was late back for some reason . |
| 9 | Then she walked with me to a bus stop — I had to take one step every two minutes , and that in slow motion — waited with me , put me on the right bus and reminded the conductor where to let me out . |
| 10 | An elderly English lady , with a tendency to pre-war propriety , who told me on the Friday that she was afraid it would all be ‘ another load of pretentious American rubbish ’ , said on Sunday that she had learned to open up for the first time in her life . |
| 11 | If the authorities read that they 'd put me on the next bus to [ name of border area ] and keep me there . |
| 12 | As I looked at him sitting opposite me on the floor of the trench , I was fascinated by his resemblance to the other Commandos I had met over the past five days . |
| 13 | Between mouthfuls of food I enquire from the Commando sitting beside me on the grass ‘ What is he up to with that pig ? ’ |
| 14 | Discretion would appear to be ‘ the better part ’ ; about fifty to sixty metres down from me on the right are some very steep — probably vertical — cliffs falling the last thirteen to seventeen metres into the sea and I have no desire to ride an avalanche down . |
| 15 | I was brought rudely back to the real world by Tony 's tripod coming off the top of the pile of clatch ( odds and ends ) piled up above the seat and hitting me on the head as the truck lurched to a halt , diving itself into a drift of deep snow . |
| 16 | ‘ Oh , in cash , he paid me on the same day , insisted on doing so . |
| 17 | I wish she was here , sitting next to me on the bench , holding my hand like she used to . |
| 18 | Dad patted me on the head and Mum gives me this little kiss on the cheek and then they went off and left me with this old woman . |
| 19 | ‘ Brief me on the latest situation , please , ‘ Q ’ . ’ |
| 20 | After that dogs bit me on the feet . |
| 21 | I was in a shop once , buying scented candles , and on the radio came Steve Wright with a collage of Smiths ’ songs , and I got a distinct chill , almost as though the hand of death was tapping me on the shoulder , saying : ‘ put yer candles down , it 's time to go ! ’ ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I work two , maybe three , nights a week , ’ she tells me on the way to the flat she shares professionally with Barbara . |
| 23 | We talked a lot during those months on the same bench together , and it was his influence which set me on the trade union path . |
| 24 | Sometimes Dana would come and sit with me on the hard little chairs . |
| 25 | See , she came to see me on the bridge . ’ |
| 26 | They were very pleased when I told them the outcome of my night on the tiles and Otley sat next to me on the sofa with his arm round my shoulders . |
| 27 | You can appreciate by the remarks my agent made to me on the telephone ( words which I swear I have not amended or distorted in any way at all ) just how big and unpleasant a problem I have sitting like a gibbering troll on my innocent shoulders . |
| 28 | That is why the couple whisper and point to me on the bridge . |
| 29 | But you touched me on the cheek . |
| 30 | One day my mum sat me on the bed and started talking to me . |