Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] me [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Years ago I used to think this was a fun sport but the reason for thinking this has escaped me for the last 2 weeks . |
| 2 | The tigress was undoubtedly familiar with every foot of the ground , and not having had an opportunity of killing me at the rocks — and her chance of bagging me at the first hairpin bend having been spoilt by the kakar — she was probably now making her way through the dense undergrowth to try to intercept me at the second bend . |
| 3 | As she did so she seemed to notice me for the first time . |
| 4 | As he 's said of his ill-fated time at Virgin Records , ‘ I had to keep telling people they 're not going to make me into the next Sting . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I hope you 're coming to see me on the first night , Georg . |
| 6 | Jim is coming to see me on the fourth of May . |
| 7 | He could have dropped me off the first time ! |
| 8 | I do not know what purpose the meeting served in persuading Wapping of the merits of our plan , but it did enable me for the first and only time to see the terrain on which we were working and reinforced my enthusiasm to kill the committee at the earliest possible moment . |
| 9 | My wife , Daphne , volunteered to stay and man — sorry , woman — the ramparts at home ; thus proving , not for the first time , she was far too bright to have married me in the first place . |
| 10 | ‘ I rang the airport straight away — they 've booked me on the first flight out . |
| 11 | He had had no private income , pension , or — which had surprised me in the last few years — life insurance . |
| 12 | He continued to astound me for the next four years . |
| 13 | It might have been my colleague Ann — who knew my whereabouts — or even my editor , come to congratulate me on the first pages of Lover at the Gate which I had faxed through from the hotel 's secretariat — or even Sophie , come to apologize , though I hardly imagined she had been promoted from child to lady in the few weeks of my absence . |
| 14 | Said she 's guaranteed to phone me before the next council meeting , so that we know what we 're doing , so I 'll keep at her . |