Example sentences of "and [pers pn] [verb] [prep] me [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dave and them to save for me again |
| 2 | I 'm Nick and I 'm the development director for Moat , responsible for all of our new development activities and I have with me tonight Sally our assistant development manager for Essex , who 'll be responsible for this project and also two of our consultants dealing with the scheme , Alan from Anglian Design who are acting as architects on the scheme and Howard from Space , who have been acting as our employer 's agent and consultant and will administer the building contract for , for all the phases of this , this project . |
| 3 | ‘ I can only do it when we 're in the middle of a conversation and you look at me speculatively and then say something anodyne in a voice that is so deliberately empty of judgment I can practically feel the strength of will you are exerting to keep it so , ’ said David with the hint of a laugh in his deep voice . |
| 4 | When she got up in the morning , always had amethyst earrings — and she left to me actually — and she always looked absolutely immaculate . |
| 5 | dear oh dear , and she said to me well they can get these crook locks , they 've only got to a , they 've only got to bend the steering wheel , I said will |
| 6 | " She was letting a visitor out of the front door and she waved at me gaily . |
| 7 | As I spoke , I looked at her , and she smiled at me prettily . |
| 8 | cos I thought what you talk about is such a load of bollocks and he looked at me madly , and I thought oh how funny , I thought . |
| 9 | So Wilson and I were quite chummy together , and he looked at me approvingly through his thick-lensed glasses as I sat talking with his wife about , for instance , winter tasks . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's just that he was passing the house as I came in and he looked at me really strangely . |
| 11 | ‘ I would write about forty , and he said to me once : ‘ I always skip the first twenty because they 're not very good ! ’ ’ |
| 12 | It was only when telling someone about the finale , weeks later , that I realized the unconscious pun of ‘ Sayer Little Prayer ’ and he washed over me all over again . |
| 13 | Erm , and he spoke to me later , a bit later , we had a row . |
| 14 | And he spoke to me so kindly , and with such innocent enthusiasm , that I felt like saying to Jamila , Hey , he 's not so bad ! |
| 15 | Inner and outer worlds coalesced , and he withdrew from me again . |
| 16 | Only wych elm grew in the wood and it burned for me quite well when dry . |
| 17 | Erm , although I think we will say that that would be dangerous thing to do and that we should continue to work upon the er the assumption that there erm er overall as a n , a nine percent increase , but , that seems highly unlikely that will succeed , erm What I 've then done is take account of the various staffing changes that there have been during the year , both short term and long term , erm , and you 'll see that produces a figure actually available to us this year of twenty seven thousand five hundred and eighty eight investigative hours , erm which is slightly less than we had last year , er but erm almost not significantly so , erm and it seemed to me therefore that if we were n't trying to reduce times , er , if we were saying that we would turn in times at the end of this year which were the same as the term times we turned in at the end of last year we could probably achieve that without any further recruitment . |
| 18 | I became at once possessive about it … there was already talk about the war ending and Sadler 's Wells reopening and it seemed to me entirely fitting for the Sadler 's Wells Company to reopen the theatre at Rosebery Avenue after the war with a new opera by a leading young English composer . |
| 19 | They would have to disclose all memoranda , manuscripts and correspondence relating to the transaction , and it seemed to me almost inconceivable that this disclosure could enable the culprit still to be concealed from exposure . |
| 20 | And it came to me later , as I began to love Stuart , this thought : please do n't let him be disappointed . |
| 21 | And then I began to become very worried about it and it just happened by chance that one Friday morning I heard a programme on Radio Brighton , and it was Doctor Wisbey speaking about dyslexia , and it dawned on me immediately that my son was dyslexia . |
| 22 | And it seems to me perfectly understandable that the local planning authorities in the county would like to take one hundred percent control of the unbuilt upon part of the county . |
| 23 | In this sense , therefore , every society has a political system — a body of rules and practices , however informal , rudimentary and unspecific , which constitutes the framework ( itself subject to change ) within which such struggles , involving confrontations between different possible courses of action , normally take place — and it seems to me entirely erroneous and misleading to speak , as some Marxists have done , about societies in which there is no ‘ political level ’ . |
| 24 | And it stayed with me right until I left school . |
| 25 | With a careless shrug , he says : ‘ My flat was burgled last year and it occurred to me then not much of it was important . ’ |
| 26 | And it applies to me equally with them . |