Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] and [verb] me [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we were in port he let me off work and allowed me to go ashore for as long as I wanted : " After all , you 're here to see these places . |
| 2 | For [ fa ] some of them felt a strong shock just at my thinking of tackling the subject of the sense of humour of the Prophet Muhammad and the holy imams of Islam and advised me to confine my research to modern times . |
| 3 | They trust me with bunches of keys and let me phone my sister . |
| 4 | On the first day Odd-Knut gave me a tobacco tin of worms and told me to keep them warm , and they have travelled the Arctic inside my second layer of clothing ever since , even sharing my sleeping bag at night-time . |
| 5 | He was always a lot of fun and made me laugh . ’ |
| 6 | And on this morning , of all mornings , James phoned at the crack of dawn and asked me to preside over a ridiculous Press party . |
| 7 | After about half an hour 's unsteady plodding along the sand , leaving dinosaur hoofprints and a small steaming roundabout in the middle of the beach , my buffalo turned back for home , slotted a few heads of corn into his cheeks by the way of reward and let me dismount . |
| 8 | Buchan was living at Elsfield Manor near Oxford and invited me to come and see him : no one could have been more helpful and encouraging . |
| 9 | It was Francis with his head back laughing , inhaling all the joy of the world ; Francis delighting in the flowers he threw together with branches and invited me to enjoy . |
| 10 | It was later that evening that he took a white muslin dress out of the bag with which he had returned from Paris and asked me to wear it as a nightdress . |
| 11 | Take two or three of these before meals and let me know if the symptoms do n't clear up . ’ |
| 12 | The tree was 360mm in diameter and to enable me to get the correct clearance around the tree and the seat width I drew a rough development on the patio with chalk . |
| 13 | She was driving from Frankfurt and phoned me to say she was leaving late . |
| 14 | ‘ You 'll doubtless go to ground and leave me to cope with everything . ’ |
| 15 | With that , they walked off together to class and left me standing alone by the gates . |
| 16 | They are like nowhere else on earth and inspire me to try new things . |
| 17 | All eight doctors signed a letter on 13 December to the Secretary of State for Health and asked me to pass it on . |
| 18 | Even for two days I would n't be able to bear the sight of Auntie Jean first thing in the morning , without her make-up on , her face blank as an egg , as she had prunes , kippers and cigarettes for breakfast and made me drink Typhoo tea . |
| 19 | But sometimes the Earl would ring me at home at night and ask me to drive back to Althorp because the Countess was in floods of tears . |