Example sentences of "[vb -s] me [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pa sits me on the wooden bench he has built facing the altar , and himself sits down next to me . |
| 2 | The central figure points me to a single chair , placed opposite . |
| 3 | Jesus wants me for a sunbeam , Uncle Philip wants me for a little flower . |
| 4 | He wants me in a purple gown to match the set and shows me drawings of the dancers ' outfits . |
| 5 | What interests me as a social anthropologist is not just that human beings behave in a lot of different unexpected ways but that the patterning of these differences of behaviour also varies ; and it is the continuities and the variations in these underlying patterns which are the real focus of my interest . |
| 6 | She smilingly explains that the scanner is a sort of lie-down X-ray and leads me to a narrow bed that slides inch by inch through what looks like a dry-cleaning machine . |
| 7 | And that , logically , leads me to the obvious conclusion — that I love you , and that we must be married as soon as possible . |
| 8 | Occasionally , there 's a happy accident that leads me in a nice direction . ’ |
| 9 | The world still sees me as a nasty kid |
| 10 | I 'd be a fool if I did n't realise that just being the boss invests me with a certain glamour , and it would be easy to let it slip out of control . |
| 11 | Even if I did n't have a job that keeps me at the other end of the country for most of the year , this sort of place could n't provide a living . |
| 12 | It also keeps me on the right track as well . |
| 13 | Then the reader 's fingernail will be able to produce the scent of clematis that wafts in through my window , the foie gras that awaits me at lunch , the liquid inspiration that gets me through the final paragraph . |
| 14 | The other side of the coin is that it is very satisfying and rewarding because it stretches me in every possible way . |
| 15 | ‘ What depresses me about the whole position is that skills are so important and the lack of them now is undermining our whole competitive position . |
| 16 | Another twenty minutes of this reduces me to a disorientated wreck , near to tears and vomiting . |
| 17 | And he takes me to an Italian restaurant in Mitcham . |
| 18 | Awaits me in the scented dark . |
| 19 | I can ask it to read one of these three files , and it presents me with a one-dimensional array of alphabetical characters , including the characters that you are now reading . |
| 20 | I have to dress in my sweaty , dirty clothes and go back down to the kitchen , grumbling while she makes me a coffee , and I complain about my wet boots and she gives me a fresh pair of William 's socks to wear and I put them on and drink my coffee and whine about never being allowed to spend the night and tell her how just once I 'd like to wake up here in the morning , and have a nice , civilised breakfast with her , sitting on the sunny balcony outside the bedroom windows , but she makes me sit down while she laces my boots up , then takes my coffee cup off me and sends me out the back door and says I 've got two minutes before she arms the alarm and puts the infrared lights on stand-by so I have to go back the way I came , over the estate wall and through the wood and down into the stream where I get both feet wet and cold and I fall going up the bank and get all muddy and eventually drag myself up and through the hedge , scratching my cheek and tearing my polo-neck and then trudging across the field through heavy rain and more mud and finally getting to the car and panicking when I ca n't find the car keys before remembering I put them in the button-down back pocket of the jeans for safety instead of the side pocket like I usually do , and then having to put some dead branches under the front wheels because the fucking car 's stuck and finally getting away and home and even in the street light I can see what a mess of the pale upholstery my muddy clothes have made . |
| 21 | I think the one thing , that that really annoys me about the royal family is the way they speak and the fact that the way that they speak is still re re regarded by certain sections of the , population , both in Scotland and in England , as being er , the correct way in which the English language should be pronounced , which is of course , arrant nonsense ! |
| 22 | He relaxes and tells me about a new band he is producing . |
| 23 | My heart tells me of a perfect flower in the centre of the garden and I move along the pathways , stopping to drink in some new and dazzling sight or scent that arrests me . |
| 24 | He tells me of a great battle his ancestors fought near Lake Victoria . |
| 25 | A FRIEND tells me of a post-electoral poster war which has broken out in his salubrious street in north Kensington , London , quite different in tone from the good-humoured gobbing on one another 's doorsteps which characterised neighbourly relations during the three weeks preceding the day that the revolution failed to dawn . |
| 26 | He tells me of the only time he has seen his mother drink ; her infant grandchild vomited on her coat , and she spouted a fine , volatile performance , screaming Christ Almighty the cross a woman has to bear , taking the Lord 's name in vain for the very first time . |
| 27 | She tells me with a peculiar girlie sham . |
| 28 | Sue now weighs 8st 3lbs ( 52 kg ) and tells me in an accompanying letter that her weight loss and subsequent new figure has completely changed her life in every respect . |
| 29 | If I rush it unsettles me for the whole session , and I invariably feel as though I have not done something right . |
| 30 | He welcomes me with a weak grin and a feeble cough . |