Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] me [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think you 'd better work with me for the next few days , or if I 'm not here , then with one of my staff nurses . |
| 2 | Frigidity has only been better exemplified to me by the first psychotic woman I ever saw , who complained that her vagina contained a block of ice . |
| 3 | Where he found the energy — Anyway , this poor child , only nineteen she was ( he should 've been ashamed of himself and him a man of forty ) — if she 'd only come to me at the start ! |
| 4 | They were soon strolling with me round the house as if they 'd been expecting me for weeks . |
| 5 | There 's one other area that 's just sprung to me about the trainee and their actual ability . |
| 6 | ‘ Just think of me as the Ghost of Cameron Yet to Come … ’ |
| 7 | And if I speak a bit plain … just think of me as the woman who gave up everything to save you girls from their worst dangers Dear sisters there is not one of us ladies … who wo n't tell you that we have learnt our most precious lessons of faith … and patience , and self-sacrifice and contentedness under trials from you . |
| 8 | I thought she would grow really angry but instead she just pushed past me at the door . |
| 9 | At the exalted level of Olympic competition that might be true , although I find it hard to attribute the concept of ‘ needing ’ to Carl Lewis , who , and no doubt I am being unfair , always looks to me like the lead actor in a Disney film entitled The Fastest Kid on Earth . |
| 10 | In my experience the smart rejoinder to a put down usually occurs to me on the bus on the way home , but at least some of my guests were quick thinking enough to exact their revenge … |
| 11 | The thought had hardly occurred to me before the diver , with a weird-sounding cry , left the water in a noisy take-off , and flew seawards in alarm . |
| 12 | The violence of this transition became more cushioned for me in the mid-seventies , when we built our bamboo and coconut-wood home in the highlands of Bali , which for seven years now has served us as a sort of decompression chamber between the two worlds . |
| 13 | Miss Kenton was still waiting for me in the hallway and we ascended through the house in silence . |
| 14 | ‘ She 's hardly speaking to me at the moment — except to accuse me of stealing her golf-clubs . ’ |
| 15 | I suspect that Mum is angry about this , as she usually relies on me in the summer to look after my younger sister while she is at work . |
| 16 | I remember an English don once coming to me at the end of a meeting , and saying that she had suddenly seen that evening in Jesus Christ the answer to the rather negative existentialist framework into which her life had been cast . |
| 17 | Keld , like Thwaite , is a sleepy little place and will be forever remembered by me as the milkless village . |
| 18 | I was quite interested in flashers and their psychology , and often wished they would ‘ flash ’ me ; but they always looked at me with the utmost contempt as I stood waiting hopefully for a revelation . |
| 19 | Everything of importance has always happened to me in the autumn , every new departure has always presented itself within a dying context . |
| 20 | Le Maître always behaves towards me with the utmost propriety , whatever people may be saying to the contrary . ’ |
| 21 | As slim as a reed and as shy as a bird with the eyes of a gazelle , were all the aspects of beauty once described to me by the Youngest Son as most desirable in a woman . |
| 22 | But I flatter myself that I can meet this danger more calmly and securely than most philologists ; my philosophical seriousness is already too deeply rooted , the true and essential problems of life and thought have been too clearly shown to me by the great mystagogue Schopenhauer … " ( 1869 ) ; " I love the Greeks more and more … [ but ] … the philologist 's existence … seems to me more and more anomalous " ( 1870 ) ; " For me , everything that is best and most beautiful is associated with the names Schopenhauer and Wagner , and I am proud and happy to share this feeling with my closest friends " ( 1870 again ) ; and from the close of the same year , " Let us drag on in this university existence for a few more years ; let us take it as a sorrowful lesson … I realize what Schopenhauer 's doctrine of university wisdom is all about … |
| 23 | The Youngs were with the Unwins from Australia and Filmer and Daffodil shared a table with a pair Nell later identified to me as the American owners of the horse called Flokati . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'm insulted that he 's even talking about me on the tape — and I 'm sure the other players he 's mentioned feel the same . |
| 25 | Take Nosey and the spare horse , then wait for me at the crossroads . |
| 26 | Margaret stared at me , then shot by me into the hall . |
| 27 | When he initially came to me with the novel , I thought , ‘ Victor 's a Rasta , it 's going to be something about Haile Selassie . ’ |
| 28 | The earth never quite moved for me in the Dante Sonata as I thought at one stage it might . |
| 29 | ‘ Men sometimes whistle at me in the street and it does n't bother me a bit . |
| 30 | Douglas was glad to acknowledge Miller 's help and told the Royal Society that he had received some coconuts ‘ germinated in this country by the industrious Mr. Miller , by whose care and skill they were brought to this perfection ; and besides he very freely communicated to me for the good of the publick his own methods in management in raising them which I here desire may be read in his words . ’ |