Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] me [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two days sitting in the plane and fifty bourbons later I had this young born-again advocate holding my hand and praying for me at the top of his voice . |
| 2 | When I close my eyes and imagine fatherhood , I see all the standard clichés : John Jr walking with me in the park , a football dribbling at his chubby little feet ; John Jr passing me a spanner as I lie underneath the motorbike ; John Jr asking me to read him that story one more time because I read it so well . |
| 3 | Diamond Head was leaping at me from the right . |
| 4 | There were too many strange things happening around me at the time . ’ |
| 5 | It means I must leave the doors unlocked , but that 's less risk than having him come looking for me within the quarter-hour , as he surely would . ’ |
| 6 | And while I 'm doing that , the two bucks are pushing past me into the room and they 've got his shirt open and they 're really doing a number on him . |
| 7 | Kids were pushing past me down the corridor , all shouting and yelling to each other , and Kevin was carried along with them . |
| 8 | Even that I believed , but the lipstick on his underpants ‘ administered by a gay dwarf in drag , brushing past me in the men 's showers ’ was a bit much . |
| 9 | She stood looking at me from the end of the bed . |
| 10 | The ticket 's waiting for me at the desk . |
| 11 | When I went into town to order my new clothes , Mr Pumblechook was waiting for me at the door of his shop . |
| 12 | ‘ They 're waiting for me at the station . ’ |
| 13 | When I got back to the attic , Jean-Claude was waiting for me at the top of the stairs . |
| 14 | This time he was waiting for me at the table . |
| 15 | In one week I listened to the English boy singing the praises of my dark colouring and frizzy hair , felt him kiss me on the cheek with obvious pleasure whenever I cooked a meal and when I came in from work , or when we sat watching television together , and found him waiting for me at the end of the road when I was late back for some reason . |
| 16 | I think about Mr Jackson and I get a sort of uncomfortable feeling when I remember he was waiting for me at the house and I did n't come back . |
| 17 | ‘ It did n't really sink in what I had done until I returned to school on the Monday morning and saw all the television cameras waiting for me at the gates , ’ says Dozzell . |
| 18 | Jekyll 's servant had received by the same post a letter similar to mine , and he was waiting for me with the locksmith . |
| 19 | I 'd get a phone call from his secretary and then a limousine would be waiting for me down the lane . |
| 20 | The Management was waiting for me in the lounge of his magnificent suite . |
| 21 | Will Mum and Dad be waiting for me in the hall ? |
| 22 | The wench was waiting for me in the street . |
| 23 | Miss Kenton was still waiting for me in the hallway and we ascended through the house in silence . |
| 24 | There were a couple of men waiting for me in the car park tonight , said they had a message for me from a ‘ friend ’ that ran along the lines of warning me to keep my nose out of things that did n't concern me . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ No doubt the news will be waiting for me around the garrison by now , ’ he said . |
| 26 | Waiting for me behind the counter was Katrina . |
| 27 | ‘ Is Mrs Vulcan in ? ’ they chorused , peering past me into the room . |
| 28 | Looming before me in the darkness is my brother Ludo , a baseball bat dangling from his hand . |
| 29 | I had four cameras lying around me on the seabed , all set at different distances . ’ |
| 30 | It was a meadow ready for cutting and suddenly I realized that it was high summer , the sun was hot and that every step brought the fragrance of clover and warm grass rising about me into the crystal freshness of the air . |