Example sentences of "[noun sg] [modal v] [verb] me [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Except if your coming may release me from the necessity ever to speak to that old hag again ! |
| 2 | Gyggle would store me in a spare room of the hospital and keep me under twenty-four-hour observation while I was unconscious . |
| 3 | No expert could tell me of a product to cure the problem . |
| 4 | When Kirk Douglas became a target for a drunkard in a bar who 'd seen Douglas as the boxer in Champion , Kirk merely slammed his hand on the bar and shouted , ‘ Anyone in this bar can lick me in a fight , ’ and the drunkard backed off . |
| 5 | Your article should reach me by the first Friday of the month . |
| 6 | After a while , though , I started receiving letters from her , and on Sunday evenings my Pop would take me to the phone booth , where at a prearranged time I would ring a phone booth in Scotland and talk to her for 3 minutes . |
| 7 | My husband would take me to a cinema . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I 'm sure all of those who attended this year 's rally will join me in a sincere vote of thanks to Mick and Julie Turrell . |
| 10 | My old mum used to take me to the fair there . |
| 11 | Even before I had learned to walk my eldest sister used to dump me in an orange box on the pavement next to Granpa 's pitch just to be sure I could start my apprenticeship early . |
| 12 | What I saw that morning could spoil me for a sexual relationship forever . |
| 13 | ‘ My father would lift me over the turnstile at the Brandywell , with me decked out in a red and white scarf and hat . ’ |
| 14 | Even if I DID turn both taps fully on and DID leave the plug out I would not allow the bath to get anywhere near overflowing because my Mum would beat me around the head with the back-scrubber . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I 'd found some bunches of violets that were n't much good , but I thought I might sell them in the pub , or that some kind gent might treat me to a sandwich . |
| 17 | The best I could do would be to say ‘ I like peaches better ’ , but quite apart from the logical objection to deriving ‘ Choose the peach ’ from this psychological statement , reliance on a generalization about my preference could get me into a habit which would dim my awareness of the tastes , until I fail to notice that I no longer like peaches as much as I did , or that at this moment I hanker after a pear , so that the abortive try at rationalization would make my choice less intelligent . |
| 18 | Uncle used to tell me about the time when the primitive Methodists and the Wesley Methodists were joining up . |
| 19 | One mistake would spill me into the maelstrom on my right . |
| 20 | On Tuesdays , Dad took me to the children 's cinema , on Wednesdays , Pop took me to Sally Carmichael 's dancing class , and on Saturdays my Nan would take me to the variety show at the Sheffield Empire . |
| 21 | Nothing in sex will concern me except the pure physical pleasure ; I shall be incapable of love , of Don Juan 's pride of conquest , even of caring whether the woman is pleased or bored with my company . |
| 22 | I WRITE to ask if any readers of this letter will join me in the campaign to see justice done for the men accused of the crime of killing Carl Bridgewater in 1978 . |
| 23 | ‘ Yes , if Dad 'll meet me at the station — ’ |
| 24 | I knew her as a girl because my own parents being much occupied , my nurse used to take me to the north to her brother 's farm for holidays . |
| 25 | My dad used to take me to the baths every Tuesday night . |
| 26 | Early on Saturday morning Dad would take me in a tram down to Granton Square , and there Uncle Bill would be waiting . |
| 27 | In retirement I hope my company will provide me with an office and a secretary , so that I can go on contributing to society from my experience . |
| 28 | Mother used to take me to the lawyers in in Newarks . |
| 29 | So it was just My mother used to see me across the road with my shilling to pay for my pinny . |
| 30 | ‘ My mother used to treat me like a stranger , ’ he reflected . |