Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] [vb mod] [verb] me [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Calm down or you 'll drive me insane . |
| 2 | I 'd better let her take you home or she 'll eat me alive and spit out the bones . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Fetch me my long bow , ’ jeered the Lord Llewellyn , ‘ and I 'll shoot me that winter goose up there . ’ |
| 4 | I can remember , we used to have like mints in a bowl , lovely mints did n't we and erm potat , and we used to have the mints just in the bowl and I remember boiled potatoes , you remember erm , you know like , when we , when we were coming like and I can see everything now and I can see me little bowl and everything |
| 5 | ‘ And you 'll send me hundreds of postcards from Italy ? ’ |
| 6 | Do let's chat again some time and you can tell me all the gossip about Buck 's new tenants . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Let's get as drunk as you think we have to , and you can tell me all the reasons I 'm so childish . ’ |
| 8 | Now , ’ he added , rising to his feet and taking the plate from her hand , ‘ it 's a beautiful moonlit night — so why do n't we take a walk in the garden , and you can tell me all about the history of your old family home ? ’ |
| 9 | Get into bed , I 'll bring you some water , and you can tell me all about it . ’ |
| 10 | And you can give me those cornflakes . |
| 11 | The day he left , Kathy said to Clare , ‘ I 'll come round every evening and you can phone me any time — I 've asked my boss . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ And you can surprise me any old time , ’ the dog offered . |
| 13 | Sometimes after school we would visit their house and she would show me all her nice clothes . |
| 14 | And she 'd give me that look , like at first , half wary , half defiant , as if she had a secret to defend from me . |
| 15 | I though we 'd sit on her step , like we always did , and share out the Cadbury 's , and I 'd tell her about our school and she 'd tell me all about the nuns and everything , but when she opened the door she just stood there , all clean and different in her stiff long uniform still , and said , " I ca n't possibly play out tonight . |
| 16 | And they used to buy me new material to encourage me and I learnt how to sew from that . |
| 17 | Weeks would go by and he would leave me alone and then it would happen a lot . |
| 18 | Last night I was in a furious rage because Edward asked me to go to his home this afternoon , and he would show me some flowers and nests he thought I would like to see . |
| 19 | ‘ He was beastly to me on Saturday night , and it would give me great pleasure to tell him I was right all along . |
| 20 | Item five erm I 'm also pleased to say that er Chris was the only person nominated to be Honorary Treasurer and it would give me great pleasure er to propose that he be elected Honorary Treasurer and may I have a seconder for that proposal please . |
| 21 | This will give people the opportunity to see the same actors play three different parts , and it will give me that essential ingredient of a good farce : strong ensemble acting . ’ |
| 22 | But you must tell me all about it , I ca n't wait to hear . |
| 23 | ‘ But you will make me happy ! ’ |
| 24 | But you could give me some It 's so difficult . |
| 25 | But you could give me this project , put me in charge of the entire operation — and let me see it through . |
| 26 | But she 'll need me some day . |
| 27 | She 's an ancient lass , I call her Nellie , but she can take me all the way to Sanderstown if I want a night out with bright lights . |
| 28 | But she will give me this . |
| 29 | I know girls who say , ‘ Oh , I 've never done it for money , but he 'll give me this and that ’ . |