Example sentences of "[verb] me [prep] the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I hope you 're coming to see me on the first night , Georg . |
| 2 | He glared up at me as though seeing me for the first time . |
| 3 | Within a few days of seeing me for the first time , he summoned me once again to tell me that the Labour Party did not wish to continue with the action . |
| 4 | Erm you you bring me onto the second dimension of Leeds ' objection which is to do with the distribution of those jobs . |
| 5 | Once Crispin arrived , I would want to be out and about with him , so I worked till lunch-time , and was rewarded by reaching the half-way mark , and with a new idea to carry me through the next section of the story . |
| 6 | ‘ I rang the airport straight away — they 've booked me on the first flight out . |
| 7 | They helped me over the next road , me nearly tripping as I crossed the far kerb . |
| 8 | He could have dropped me off the first time ! |
| 9 | Just then he noticed me for the first time . |
| 10 | Susan uses me for the first person pronoun [ G2 ] , and unmarked past tense [ G4 ] in tell , see , pick and run , and she has initial /t/ in ting , " thing " [ P17 ] . |
| 11 | She was once a Tory activist , but told me in the first week of the campaign she had lost faith . |
| 12 | ‘ He 's so repressed , Eddie , ’ she told me after the first time . |
| 13 | He buggered me for the first time that night , reaching round and putting his hand over my mouth , tearing me in two . |
| 14 | ‘ Put me on the next train home ? ’ she suggested unsteadily , her pulses skittering recklessly . |
| 15 | I now see that Travis is so smitten that he would n't accept anything but that , meeting me for the first time when I called at your apartment , you at once became very much attracted to me . |
| 16 | You still owe me from the last time . |
| 17 | Well that 's what everybody sings to me when them and they meet me for the first time or get introduced to me . |
| 18 | ‘ I represent about 12 players at Tottenham Hotspur , and they 've all told me in the last couple of days that they certainly will put in for transfers and leave Tottenham Hotspur . ’ |
| 19 | What has frankly surprised me about the last decade is the way in which social scientists who make no claim to a Christian profession have been talking openly about the relevance of religious values to our current economic problems in the Western world . |
| 20 | If a Region would like a special overseas visitor not catered for in the Grid system , they can contact me in the first place . |
| 21 | That leads me to the last question , ground ( 7 ) . |
| 22 | This leads me to the last determinant of transmission teaching I want to explore here : that of teacher isolation . |
| 23 | The second point is on correspondence , I 'm absolutely certain that when a member of public writes in to any department , not necessarily highway , he expects and needs an immediate response , now I know you have , you have started the acknowledgement of our system , but I think it 's , it does n't go far enough , an acknowledgement card that simply says the thing is received and is receiving attention , needs to then indicate the individual to whom that matter has been passed for attention and that leads me to the third point and I think the general complaint on the public is that local government is seen as faceless people and I think we have to get in our mind to name people within our department , there 's not one mention about it in our promise , I think we need , unless I 've not read it , but I think , I think we , yes , but I think we need to mention people by name , senior people within the department who will respond to particular things and certainly where public comes into contact within the offices we must get around to wearing a name badge who says who that person is , people want to relate to a person and I think we can do that if we try . |
| 24 | ‘ Tell me about the next morning . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ It was quite usual for me to take on this sort of job but it was n't usual for him to make an appointment for me and only tell me at the last minute , especially when it meant working after hours . |
| 26 | He would meet me off the last train … . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | She left us there a few minutes , then , coming to the door , beckoned me to the next room . |
| 29 | Bessie kissed me for the last time as I held tightly to her . |
| 30 | It hit me for the first time that the bands and comedians were going to be performing here for free , for John , for us . |