Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] me [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean you asked me about formal education , and immediately we 're talking about nursery education . |
| 2 | I mean you asked me about formal education and immediately we 're talking about nursery education . |
| 3 | Her hands rested on it as she surveyed me with calm enquiry . |
| 4 | ‘ You recall me to common sense and my duties , McAllister . |
| 5 | By your expression , I judge that you suspect me of pseudo-intellectual flim-flam and it is undeniable that our deliberations tended more towards the sybaritic than the Socratic . |
| 6 | I 've been wanting you to kiss me for absolute ages . ’ |
| 7 | You knew she 'd be there tonight , which is why you needed me as protective cover . |
| 8 | You keep me in hot water all the time … |
| 9 | She is in the early stages of pregnancy , her belly gently swelling inside her pink dress , and she tells me with obvious delight that she is expecting a summer bambino . |
| 10 | That frigid little scene you treated me to over breakfast ? ’ |
| 11 | Generally and for the most part they 'll come up with the same sum at the end of the day and if I go to two different philosophers and say , erm can you tell me about free will ? |
| 12 | ‘ You accuse me of underhand dealing , of using dubious methods to get what I want ? |
| 13 | ‘ So , you call me at regular intervals . |
| 14 | The last time I did you put me on blind bends . |
| 15 | " You pictured me in gaudy skirts , dangling earrings and necklace , dancing round a camp fire ? |
| 16 | ‘ I thought you left me for other women . ’ |
| 17 | Do you remind me of other people I like or dislike ? ( i.e. do you look like a schoolteacher I disliked ? ) |
| 18 | In their wisdom ( or because of the lack of it ) they appointed me as working group chairman . |
| 19 | Oh well they treated me alright afterwards because Mr er said , well you see they put me on big presses during the last war and er I 've always loved machinery , always loved machinery and then the foreman said er before the foreman came to him Mr said er , you 've got to learn to set your own tools , he said , I ca n't keep coming out of the tool room and er to change your tools , so of course erm I began setting my own tools , but when I got them in they would come around and check because otherwise hundreds of pounds have gone , could have gone if I had n't just got the top to go in right in the base you know , and er they were great big presses very big . |
| 20 | They took me to Lochleven Castle , and put me in a room like a prison . |
| 21 | ‘ And they reccommend me to other people . |
| 22 | And last night it got me into hot water . |
| 23 | It soileth my soul , It leadeth me into deep waters , |
| 24 | And he irritates me by repeating things over and over again . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ He beat me at New Marske and he was a target for me in this one . ’ |
| 26 | He received me with grave courtesy and enquired after my family . |
| 27 | He told me with simple gravity , as a matter decided and not to be discussed , that he had decided to resign his office . |
| 28 | ‘ To see the trash ! ’ he told me with childlike frankness . |
| 29 | He acknowledged this when he told me in fluent English that he wanted to do a post-graduate degree in biology in the States . |
| 30 | But we forgot to dispose of the discarded furnishings , and six months later when I went to spend a few days with a senior Burmese colleague , he showed me with great satisfaction his small-town church , furnished with the discarded pews , pulpit , litany desks , with the collection bags being changed according to the ecclesiastical season ! |