Example sentences of "and [pron] [verb] me [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Two recent examples from my own constituency — and which prompted me to think of this idea — illustrate the advantage of giving people this freedom . |
2 | Nobody told me to become a stand-up comedian and nobody told me to go on the fucking telly . ’ |
3 | ‘ And you expect me to agree to all that ? |
4 | ‘ And you expect me to work for you , knowing you have not one ounce of faith in my abilities as a landscape designer ? ’ |
5 | ‘ And you want me to go with you ? |
6 | They 'd put her into a side ward and removed the mirrors and she asked me to peek under the cloth and tell her what she looked like . |
7 | After tea we would sometimes walk round their garden , and she gave me tips on gardening which have since stood me in good stead ; and cuttings , which still bring her to my mind . |
8 | I 've seen the Fire guys and they told me to ask for an Inspector Ball . |
9 | Well , I phoned them up , and I 'd been badgering them , and they told me to wait for a further communication . |
10 | Because they believed and they got me to believe at the time , that nationalization would be the cure for all our ills . |
11 | ‘ I was at Queen Eleanor 's and they urged me to go to university , but I wanted to be independent , so I came into the Met . ’ |
12 | they offered me two for a boat , right and they offered me one while I was there , then I got home and they offered me one that late that evening , job , erm working like that was a Thursday and they wanted me to start on the week Monday , I could n't do it as it happens I had to give my weeks notice here get out there that quick , so I fucking said , I said to myself well they 've first day , they 're gon na offer me a few more , so yeah they offered me a couple more but way from so , a bit unlucky I , I wished I 'd fucking taken it |
13 | But they put their foot down when it came to maths and they caught me grappling with the colour scheme of a kestrel . |
14 | And he taught me to fly like a bird , wo oh oh ! |
15 | Er and then he got me he er he got me interested in politics and he got me going to this N C L C evening evening classes . |
16 | The theatre director Schuh was there and he saw me sitting by myself during the interval . |
17 | I wanted to go out last week , but he said , ‘ No way , you 're not going out there ’ , and he made me stay in the whole week . |
18 | on an underground train which could n't decide if it 's going to move or not , it did eventually move I got a taxi at one point and I was so sick and tired and they put me outside Liberties , I gave the man a twenty pound note and he gave me change for a ten yes , coming back from Oxford Circus from Liberty 's , I thought I 'd better economise , I 've been done out of ten pounds , I do n't think it was dishonesty I think it was just sheer muddle , I , I 'm ten pounds down , I 'm must cut down a bit , so I will come back underground from Oxford Circus to Waterloo to get down to and you 've guessed it , I got into an , an underground train which would not move , it simply stuck , and it would go chugga , chugga , chugga , chugga , chugga , then it would stop in the tunnel for a while , while its . |
19 | " And he wants me to go with him this time — as his driver . " |
20 | He wants ideas , new possibilities , experiments , and he wants me to talk to the actors . |
21 | He 's now 80 and he wants me to live with him — he says he wants to take care of me . |
22 | I know that giving a man on a ventilator morphine in high doses , enough to cause general anaesthesia , is risking his life , and it distracts me to think about whether or not it 's ethical . |
23 | And it hurts me to think of her , helpless in that woman 's power . ’ |
24 | It would attack me suddenly , quite unpredictably — and it left me fighting for breath . |
25 | If I 'm down or arguing with one of the family , because I 've been ratty through not being well , then Pat the physiotherapist , I have a talk with her and she talks to me and it helps me to talk to somebody else . |
26 | Erm , I wear make up as a mask basically gives me confidence and it stops me having to be myself which I feel is n't good enough for the public |
27 | The Working Party helped me to express my lesbianism in a positive way in that I could come out , and it helped me to deal with the suspicion and fears of colleagues Black and white , gay or straight , male or female . |