Example sentences of "as [pron] [verb] me [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were faced , as you reminded me with a projected twenty-four million pound shortfall . |
| 2 | You can have been had by the whole of Fighter Command as far as I 'm concerned ; just as long as you add me to the list . ’ |
| 3 | So I better 'ave it out , Annie , that 's if I can pawn me lace tablecloth for one an' six , same as you gave me on the watch . ’ |
| 4 | I remember once thinking my mother was stark raving bonkers as she regaled me with a tale of the time she scrimped for six months to buy a pair of elbow length , white kid evening gloves , which set her back the equivalent of two weeks ' wages . |
| 5 | ‘ As soon as she saw me on the doorstep I felt she knew something . |
| 6 | I kept seeing Sergia 's face as she held me in the air looked me over . |
| 7 | As she hauled me up the stairs I braced myself for ‘ What the blazes , Bina ? |
| 8 | I lay very still , the hair rising on the back of my neck as something nudged me through the canvas . |
| 9 | ‘ As long as they get me past the post . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ People were hugging and kissing each other as my car powered its way to the finish as they joined me in an early celebration . |
| 11 | I asked , as they marched me towards the car . |
| 12 | For myself , I wish to say to men that as long as they associate me with an idea of ‘ woman ’ drawn from the past , or suppose that a model for gender relations is to be found in that past , they have failed to see me for the person who I am , or to envisage what equality might mean . |
| 13 | Even more so as it caught me with a mouthful of pancake and hot sauced prawns . |
| 14 | You like yams ? ’ he asks as he hurries me through the West Indian greengrocer 's and out the back . |
| 15 | They made respectful way for him as he led me through the village to a longhouse standing apart from the others . |
| 16 | As he led me through the back door and on to the waste ground he used as an unofficial parking lot , he said : ‘ Good runner , only thirty thousand on the clock . ’ |
| 17 | Keith Lascelles took my hand , squeezing it reassuringly as he led me across the stage , up the wide stairway dividing the orchestra , and left me to arrange myself on the rostrum . |
| 18 | Seeing my stricken face the producer tried to offer some comfort and advice as he propelled me through the studio door . |
| 19 | ‘ I could tell he 'd been drinking as soon as he joined me on the jig . |
| 20 | I climbed into my paper nightie and was helped on to a narrow trolley by a second Farrah Fawcett blow-up doll ( but punctured ) , then gazed adoringly up the nose of a Greek god as he wheeled me into an open lift and down to the basement operating theatre to a waiting : ‘ Hi , I 'm Andy , your anaesthesiologist . ’ |
| 21 | He was laughing and wincing even as he threw me across the room into his drum-kit . |
| 22 | ‘ Very well , thank you , ’ I answered shyly as he patted me on the head . |
| 23 | " No , John , they 'll come up through the front , " said Fielding , his arm on my shoulder now as he steered me across the floor . |