Example sentences of "and [v-ing] me [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was supposed to shoot back up again , hitting my jutting backside en route and pitching me across the stage , but it did n't . |
| 2 | I had not before realised that my canoe had been following me but I soon felt it as the point hit my back and then went down underneath me , dragging me down and sandwiching me between the canoe and the tree . |
| 3 | I thought he would , he deserves it and suddenly the semi-circle is clapping and looking at me : ‘ She 's won , she 's a-a-a won , ’ I hear John shout from half-way up the stalls , and my fellow contestants are slapping me on the back and pushing me to the front of the stage , |
| 4 | I nodded and he turned back to mutter something into his talkback before handing me the mike , taking my hand and leading me to the stage . |
| 5 | And joining me on the journey was a never-ending line of lumbering construction plant , Brobdingnagian concrete-mixers , and juggernauts laden with rocks and sand . |
| 6 | I fell asleep and remember him lifting me off and putting me on the settee cushion but I 'd had a tiring evening and hardly stirred . |
| 7 | Of course , for serious devilry the War Bag has to go by itself , and a camera would just be a liability , but I have n't had a real threat for a couple of years , since the time some big boys in the town took to bullying me in Porteneil and ambushing me on the path . |
| 8 | He wrapped me in a warm coat and placing me in the car took me several miles over the moor . |
| 9 | We sat after lunch on Monday in his room ; or rather he sat chubbily at his desk , living up to his nickname , spooning Hymettus honey out of a jar and telling me of the flesh and fleshpots he had bought himself in Athens ; and I lay on his bed , only half listening . |
| 10 | ‘ When I suggested we just … just put it down to experience , I did n't expect you to start dissecting and analysing everything , and mocking me in the process … ’ |
| 11 | As 12-ounce cans of vegetables bounce off the side of my car , one of them smashing my rearview mirror and another sailing with surprising accuracy through my open car window and striking me on the shoulder , I decide to call it quits for the night and return in daylight . |
| 12 | Three of them I recognize , but the whole gang has been grinning at me and clapping me on the back like I was their kid brother pulled out of a scrape . |
| 13 | I was brought rudely back to the real world by Tony 's tripod coming off the top of the pile of clatch ( odds and ends ) piled up above the seat and hitting me on the head as the truck lurched to a halt , diving itself into a drift of deep snow . |
| 14 | Andy yelled , throwing the keys down and grabbing me by the collar and slamming me back against the side of the Landie . |