Example sentences of "[noun] [modal v] [verb] me [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Except if your coming may release me from the necessity ever to speak to that old hag again ! |
| 2 | After reading an article in your recent issue regarding older knitting machines , I would be interested to know if any of your readers could supply me with the correct manual for the KH585 as there do seem to be some differences in the controls of the two models . |
| 3 | I always wanted to be an actor since I was about five and my parents would take me to the cinema and theatre . |
| 4 | ‘ And that actually created some problems for me , because guitarists would call me from the States or Britain and say , ‘ I want the sound that George Lynch gets on ‘ Lock And Key ’ . |
| 5 | ‘ Gabriel-Ernest will help me with the little ones , ’ she said happily . |
| 6 | Your article should reach me by the first Friday of the month . |
| 7 | After a while , though , I started receiving letters from her , and on Sunday evenings my Pop would take me to the phone booth , where at a prearranged time I would ring a phone booth in Scotland and talk to her for 3 minutes . |
| 8 | A glance at the route followed will prove that this is not a guide-book , and a glance at the contents will expose me to the scorn of local patriots who will see , with incredulous rage , that on many an occasion I passed silently through their favourite village . |
| 9 | So , whenever the weather is suitable during the critical period , a phone call from Martin will put me on the alert . |
| 10 | What cruel irony it will be if my own uncompromising and innovatory integrity should lead me into the mantraps set by the sort of people who scarcely know one end of a pen from another . |
| 11 | My old mum used to take me to the fair there . |
| 12 | ‘ Jack used to call me into the office , ask me to sign three letters and then order me back out onto the training pitch because he knew that was my second home . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ My father would lift me over the turnstile at the Brandywell , with me decked out in a red and white scarf and hat . ’ |
| 14 | When Inner City were taking off , people would phone me at the store and ask for Paris . |
| 15 | I know people get tired of appeals , but I urge them to organise fundraising for the echo-cardiograph equipment as undoubtedly a great number of people will follow me through the coronary unit and the machine will surely be of great help to them . |
| 16 | saying you know , we need a sum of money and Mary will help me with the marketing of that and hopefully after that we would , go on enough to keep us going , so hopefully by the time Christmas comes |
| 17 | I feel that the Angel Gabriel will ask me at the pearly gates : Ilsa , did you ever make a good Yorkshire pudding ? |
| 18 | Even if I DID turn both taps fully on and DID leave the plug out I would not allow the bath to get anywhere near overflowing because my Mum would beat me around the head with the back-scrubber . |
| 19 | Then Araminta may accompany me to the sands . ’ |
| 20 | But I loved the orchestra the moment I stood in front of it ; and I knew from that moment that wherever my musical life might lead me in the meantime , this was what I wanted . |
| 21 | Uncle used to tell me about the time when the primitive Methodists and the Wesley Methodists were joining up . |
| 22 | One mistake would spill me into the maelstrom on my right . |
| 23 | On Tuesdays , Dad took me to the children 's cinema , on Wednesdays , Pop took me to Sally Carmichael 's dancing class , and on Saturdays my Nan would take me to the variety show at the Sheffield Empire . |
| 24 | Uncle Bill would perch me on the handlebars of his bicycle and we 'd spin along Lower Granton Road beside the railway lines , with engines and strings of wagons shunting dose to us and the engine-drivers shouting hello to Uncle Bill , and beyond them were the masts and funnels of ships in the harbour . |
| 25 | Nothing in sex will concern me except the pure physical pleasure ; I shall be incapable of love , of Don Juan 's pride of conquest , even of caring whether the woman is pleased or bored with my company . |
| 26 | Because getting young Rossiter up to eleven lengths will see me to the grave . |
| 27 | Now , perhaps Bobbie can take me to the door ? ’ |
| 28 | I should have realized that Clive would dump me at the first opportunity , that he had in fact been looking for an excuse to do so . |
| 29 | I WRITE to ask if any readers of this letter will join me in the campaign to see justice done for the men accused of the crime of killing Carl Bridgewater in 1978 . |
| 30 | ‘ Yes , if Dad 'll meet me at the station — ’ |