Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] me [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As she turned to wait for me at the end of the path , I felt I was looking at her for the first time : her face paler than her arms , a blonde shadow on her upper lip , no lipstick . |
| 2 | I grinned wickedly back and told Benjamin to wait for me in the street outside . |
| 3 | He replied on August 15 , suggesting that the SMG 's Balwinder Gill telephone the community liaison officer , adding ‘ should you wish to meet with me in the meantime , again this can be arranged . ’ |
| 4 | Well they could address their letters to myself Councillor David Poole or Councillor Stuart Argyle to the Council House erm the suggestion you know er their the thoughts the thoughts on this what er they could er erm help us in our campaign and also about the leaf stem as well if they want to write to me at the Council House suggesting and I mean proper places to where it should go because that 's really up to County Council but er at least if I had some suggestions we can pass them over to the County Council where where it could go . |
| 5 | Yeah , so she 's going to come to me on the bus on the twenty third . |
| 6 | With a Raleigh-esque flourish he threw a hanky over the unexploded missile and scraped it up , apologising profusely , before pocketing the prize and slinking off , red-faced and too embarrassed to talk to me for the rest of the evening . |
| 7 | Which is why I should have welcomed the students who wanted to talk to me about the poetry of George Darley , which a misguided colleague of mine had included in a series of lectures on the early nineteenth century , and in so doing had worried the more discerning of my students , who were failing to see any merit there . |
| 8 | I 've just asked him about the collaborative review the focus is apparently on national curriculum so that means maths , English and , but they want to look ge more general issues and because they 're in on a Wens Tuesday and a Wednesday he said that they would go in a look at , three of them would go in a look at taught tutorial lessons they will want to talk to me about the tutorial programme I would hope that that would involve somebody else cos I 've got the bit of the fence that I sit on and ask one or two of you to give your opinion if , if you 're available . |
| 9 | I just could n't get the Queen to talk to me about the situation . |
| 10 | Since he refuses to talk to me over the phone , he 'll have the pleasure of talking to me in person instead ! |
| 11 | But I stay out there singing some made-up song that goes with the waves crunching on the shingle , so she tosses stones in the water to plop near me in the darkness and I shout like an idiot and run back to the shore . |
| 12 | Then I wished I had asked him to walk with me to the coach , and I could not stop crying . |
| 13 | I looked back at the figure , which had not moved , which continued to stare at me from the shade through the sunlight over the gulley . |
| 14 | He turned to look at me across the studio . |
| 15 | I understand all right , and if you think you 're going to live off me for the rest of your life you 're mistaken . |
| 16 | I need you to love me and make me whole , to live with me for the rest of our lives and be the pride of my heart and the mother of my children … ’ |
| 17 | I kicked myself all the way back to the hotel for being an arrant coward , and next day persuaded my companion to return with me to the scene of our defeat and try again . |
| 18 | Ellen said in a tone which implied that I had entirely misunderstood the senator 's motives , which she would now have to explain to me by the application of sound feminist arguments . |
| 19 | The fact that I had people to speak for me at the trial and that I was doing community work did n't appear to mean much to them . |
| 20 | I do not know why but that did not seem to register with me at the time , and it did not until there was a third assault on the door . |
| 21 | He was actually expressly forbidden to speak to me about the matter . |
| 22 | Once or twice , at mealtimes , I thought Quigley was going to speak to me about the matter . |