Example sentences of "[vb infin] [prep] me [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We were looking forward to going seven points clear for Christmas but four will do for me at this stage . ’ |
| 2 | Jane did n't speak to me for two years , even if we bumped in a passageway . |
| 3 | Would n't speak to me for six months , but then his natural goodness of heart , as well perhaps as his gradual realization that I might have been right , that perhaps I had saved him from a fate worse than death , made it impossible for him to keep it up . |
| 4 | if I , if I sleep some one else 's house she flips and do n't speak to me for three days , but she goes off you know , I do n't mind that at all , but its just the fact that she 's so hypercritical |
| 5 | Cilla Black wo n't speak to me to this day because when I was a critic , I wrote a very warm piece about her , but during the course of it , I said , ‘ She 's quite good-looking , but she does have the nose of a rather careful boxer . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Do n't speak to me in that tone ! ’ protested his wife , but nevertheless responding to the pressure of his hand in her back . |
| 7 | ‘ Do n't you speak to me in that way , ’ Nora retorted , ‘ or I 'll box your ears , you ungrateful girl ! ’ and they were into yet another quarrel . |
| 8 | And I 'm telling you , do n't speak to me in that fashion or I 'll have to have a word with your father . ’ |
| 9 | Hopefully , ‘ You … you could look on me as another sister . ’ |
| 10 | She kept her eyes lowered to make sure that she did not look at me at this moment , at my own quite irrelevant scars . |
| 11 | Do n't look at me like that wait wait . |
| 12 | Will you really stay with me for all time , be my wife ? ’ |
| 13 | I tell you one thing I 'm slightly starting to regret inviting my girlfriend to come and stay with me for three weeks in France . |
| 14 | He said his thug would stay with me during that time . ’ |
| 15 | Well he said , Alright , he said , I 've made arrangements for your baggage to be picked up and you 'll stay with me in New Rochelle , and he was going away and he slipped me ten bucks cos I only had ten pounds money . |
| 16 | ‘ I do not see why you should apologise to me in any way , it is I who behaved like a little monster . |
| 17 | Those are just some of the memories I will take with me from this year 's Ryder Cup to join those I have of my previous three captaincies and I wish the next Ryder Cup Captain as much joy and success as I 've been lucky enough to experience . |
| 18 | The family could quite well manage without me for two days . |
| 19 | ‘ Do n't come near me with those hands . ’ |
| 20 | Thank you for coming to talk to me , and why do n't you come with me to this thing this evening ? |
| 21 | Madame does not confide in me to that extent . ’ |
| 22 | They can come to me at any time . |
| 23 | If anyone has any experience of this , perhaps they could write to me with fullest details ( breed or type , number of dogs in household , when the guarding started etc ) . |
| 24 | Fourthly , the appellants were never auditors of B. & C. That does not seem to me in any sense to be conclusive since the inquiry is into the affairs of Atlantic of which the appellants were auditors and as to representations made about it before acquisition . |
| 25 | Fine , can you bear with me for five seconds while I 'll just make a phone call ? |
| 26 | If they mentioned him , she would mutter , ‘ Do n't talk to me about that rat . ’ |
| 27 | As one contracts manager put it , ‘ Do n't talk to me about that health needs nonsense , we 're just trying to keep the lid on . ’ |
| 28 | Do n't talk to me about any band but the Heartbreakers because I just wo n't listen — these boys are newer than the New Wave and ( surprise ! ) they can play ! ! |
| 29 | ‘ Do n't talk to me about those creeps , they 'll have me in their clutches soon enough . |
| 30 | Meanwhile , if you can sit and talk to me of other things , please stay . |