Example sentences of "me [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 She looked at me crossly over the breakfast table .
2 I think what attracted me most about the country round was its Englishness , meadows deep in grass and wild flowers , and willows wherever there was water .
3 ‘ How about taking me on as a lift attendant ? ’
4 ‘ Anyway , we remained friends , and when he decided to come down here and start his practice I asked if he would take me on as a pupil veterinary nurse .
5 ‘ He shoved me on to a toilet seat and punched me , ’ Claire said .
6 Before waiting for an answer she takes me by the hand and leads me on to the dance floor .
7 ‘ I could n't see too well with my contact lens cataracts , and the crew would walk me over to the wheelchair where they had to wheel me on to the sound stage .
8 A great mammoth of an American truck went thundering past , forcing me on to the dirt shoulder .
9 Peter first came to see me halfway through the golfing season .
10 But facing me in the nets for two winters , he got to know my bowling inside out and by the end of our stay in Cape Town he was hammering me all around the practice area .
11 ‘ He wheeled me in as the star turn , ’ said Lydia indignantly when she got back .
12 ‘ The water 's risen two floors from where Bryce pulled me in off the telegraph pole , ’ Maggie reported .
13 He made the mistake of letting me in on the ground floor when he was offering a Pissarro .
14 At Cambridge , NUPE put a picket around the Union building where I was taking part in a debate and the police wanted to take me in by a side entrance .
15 The mountains of my youth were able to influence me only through the back window of a Ford Anglia , as we drove north for camping holidays in the rain .
16 It steals between us in such a way that whether or not he sees me only as the outline Woman , I see him through it only as the crude outline Man .
17 On Monday , the first day of the fair , Mum took me down to The Market Place after school and , armed with my fare , I got on to the children 's roundabout .
18 I want you to drive me down to the railway station in about half an hour . ’
19 " Mum used to send me down to the job centre for jobs .
20 They took me down to the labour ward and offered me a sedative to help me sleep .
21 They took me down to the labour room .
22 Azar called me over and with a flourish sat me down on a plastic deckchair at the front of the ring of spectators .
23 The concussion of the exploding wave drove me down like a steam hammer .
24 With the playback that in fact erm as has said it showed me what in fact I was doing right and wrong , erm I 've been on television before once when I was running the London marathon but this time it was actually me and me alone in a work element and I could in fact see what I was doing and why I was doing it and understand in fact the corrections from the morning to in fact the afternoon presentation when I came back for the second one .
25 He was looking at me as if he really hated me ; he seized me by the shoulders and pushed me over to the bathroom mirror .
26 Quigley beat me through into the back kitchen .
27 ‘ Put me through to the police office , please , ’ he said to someone in the outer office .
28 There are one or two old professors here left over from before the liberation ( apparently no profs have been appointed since ) and the professor of English , Prof. Chen Jia , is a charming though deaf old fellow who studied in the U.S.A. , and who used to write books on English literature before the Cultural Revolution put a stop to all that sort of thing — but even so he quoted a bit of Chaucer to me surreptitiously at the dinner table .
29 Evening : invited me home to a buffet meal with a group of friends and colleagues , including , ( Linguistics CIEFL ) , ( Linguistics CIEFL ) , ( Correspondence Course , CIEFL ) , ( Materials Production , CIEFL ) .
30 Then someone tipped me off about a US material used for bow and kite strings . ’
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