Example sentences of "[vb base] me [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Pain , boredom and badgering of some very kind nurses bring me to a steam-age typewriter in the hospital 's occupational therapy department .
2 Lay me alongside the French admiral ! ’
3 If I betrayed the pact between myself and The Fat Controller he would undoubtedly destroy me , fillet me , excarnate me in the screaming void .
4 The Labour Party was not deterred from developing a domestic program me despite the growing concentration on foreign affairs .
5 Other 's forgive me for the wrong doing , and for the harm I do to them , but it 's only God who can forgive my sin .
6 Ho , master greybeard loon , ’ he was shouting to Kelly , ‘ come fill the cup , or stap me for a whey-faced knave . ’
7 Sometimes they confuse me with the hon. Member for Walthamstow ( Mr. Summerson ) — I am the hon. Member for Wanstead and Woodford , and unemployment in my constituency has not risen to quite the extent that he suggests .
8 He never put me on a heavy job until at such times he thinks I was fit .
9 It was the way they put me on the right track that made me wonder — guiding angels in the Bible have a habit of appearing as two young men .
10 Then she walked with me to a bus stop — I had to take one step every two minutes , and that in slow motion — waited with me , put me on the right bus and reminded the conductor where to let me out .
11 Ah well they put me on the top rate of pay , which was quite good , thirty five shilling a week .
12 My best friends , Ada , Nora and Nives , all had bicycles , which put me at a serious disadvantage .
13 ‘ You know you put me in a bad position going off like that .
14 While I ca n't say I actually enjoyed the experience — as usual , two shirts flaked me out and put me in a bad mood for the rest of the day — I did find the whole process a whole lot easier on the nerves than throwing a glass of water across a shirt in the hope that somehow the creases , along with the water , would eventually evaporate .
15 A tall and smartly dressed Englishwoman took my hand and put me in a chauffeur-driven car and , suddenly , after three months of confinement behind barbed-wire fences , we were driving away , through the barrier and down the lanes thick and bright with the leaves and flowers of spring .
16 ‘ The police took me to prison without a change of clothes , put me in an awful cell , I was amazed that I was accused . ’
17 You put me in an embarrassing position . ’
18 When I was running away they put me in an approved school for girls run by nuns .
19 They put me in an isolated pit for the first few weeks .
20 I won , which put me in the final contest between all the winners of the ‘ All Winners ’ contest which was to be televised , live , from the London Palladium in July .
21 On the day I drew peg 45 which put me in the private meadow below the Teme mouth .
22 I mean look at myself , my father was a doctor , his father was a schoolteacher , so the way one used to look at things , that immediately when I was born put me in the middle class erm bracket .
23 ‘ Oh , come on , Deveraugh , quit messing around and let me on the damn boat . ’
24 Get me to a fucking hospital , ’ he said , frantically shaking the arm of the man who sat next to him .
25 Erm so semiconductors Erm tell me about an electrical circuit , how it works .
26 Tell me about the white patient , ’ I asked him .
27 Can anyone one tell me about the solar system , or anything they know about it .
28 Tell me about the secret garden , ’ she said .
29 Right well t t tell me about the physical abuse , what sort of things were they doing to you Andrew .
30 ( ‘ Your good influence and help has sometimes draw me from the enwrapping pleasure of scenes which before held me alone with them . ' )
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