Example sentences of "[modal v] [vb infin] me [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My dear officers , ’ said a rather breathless but still well modulated voice , ‘ of what am I accused that you should treat me like the nucleus of a civil rights demonstration ? |
| 2 | I think I should regard me with the contempt with which I myself regard the more vulgar visitors . ’ |
| 3 | You 're my family , and you must meet me at the bridge . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | You 'll send me to the churchyard one day ! |
| 6 | He 'll see me by the fire , leaning against the mantelpiece , and know how things really are ; how they ought to be . |
| 7 | ‘ Yes , if Dad 'll meet me at the station — ’ |
| 8 | Now Welsh M P , this is quite funny , has moved the motion if you 'll excuse me on the subject of public loos . |
| 9 | " Then you 'll take me into the organization ? " |
| 10 | ‘ If you 'll take me to the concert in the cloisters at Pollensa this weekend . ’ |
| 11 | One of these days you 'll lead me across the road . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'll trade you your ‘ binos ’ for information that might lead me to the whereabouts of Dr Charity Marlowe . ’ |
| 13 | I had the somewhat faint hope that he might lead me to the place and permit me to stand where Balboa had stood — on the very peak which John Keats , with the kind of monumental mistakenness permitted under the principle of poetic licence — declared was occupied by : |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Now , she thought dully , he 'll tell me about the woman he 's crazy for . |
| 16 | I thought you might drive me to the station . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ You 'll push me in the canal ! ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Ca n't stay there , see , he 'll kill me in the end . ’ |
| 19 | Perhaps she could smell me through the door . |
| 20 | ‘ He 'd send me to the dispensary at the workhouse . ’ |
| 21 | I do n't think anybody could see me behind the bouquet and I had trouble finding the keyhole . |
| 22 | Second point : although you obviously have such a low opinion of me that it does n't strain your credulity to believe that I was making love to two women at once , one of them married , I ca n't believe that even you could see me in the role of toy-boy . |
| 23 | If only they could see me in the office now I 'd turn more than a few heads . |
| 24 | In theory , you could see me in the Sunshine Home for Impoverished Journalists in 40 years ' time , tripping the nurses over with my Zimmer frame in the hope that they 'll let me father their child . |
| 25 | ‘ I wonder if he 'd run me to the shop , ’ said Betty . |
| 26 | She uttered something loud and incomprehensible in Dutch and told me she 'd meet me at the coffee shop later . |
| 27 | My legs are wobbling , they could dump me on the lino . |
| 28 | I called my mum and dad and asked if they could take me to the hospital . |
| 29 | I would be grateful if you could inform me of the person in your department who would be dealing with the register of Wildlife Sites . |
| 30 | My lecture had to be cut short , so that could drive me to the airport to catch the evening flight to Delhi . |