Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] me on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Objectives should not be too general , indeed they should be as specific as possible , e.g. not ‘ Everybody should like me ’ , but that ‘ John should greet me on arrival at work ’ . |
| 2 | Now Welsh M P , this is quite funny , has moved the motion if you 'll excuse me on the subject of public loos . |
| 3 | And he 'd bounce me on my bed and make a ‘ little nest ’ by tucking the ends of the eiderdown under my pillow until all but my face was cocooned . |
| 4 | Also , I was interested in any information you could give me on working in advertising or public relations on a music journal . |
| 5 | All the same I do n't suppose you 'd keep me on my salary unless I was working most of the time , would you ? |
| 6 | My legs are wobbling , they could dump me on the lino . |
| 7 | ‘ You could put me on probation , I suppose . ’ |
| 8 | If the authorities read that they 'd put me on the next bus to [ name of border area ] and keep me there . |
| 9 | ‘ You must think I was taking a lot for granted , sorting all this out before — well , before I even knew you 'd let me on the island , let alone still want me . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ It seems that I still have some friends in Swansea , ’ Edward said softly , ‘ no-one could convict me on such trumped-up evidence . |
| 11 | I have been given a beautiful abutilon plant , and I wonder if you could advise me on how to look after it . |
| 12 | I would be pleased if you could advise me on my plants , especially the Amazon swords . |
| 13 | When I asked Wemmick if he could advise me on how to help a friend start up in business , his post-box mouth opened wide . |
| 14 | When we were naughty he 'd give Fred the strap but he 'd sit me on the mantelpiece to make me mind my manners . |
| 15 | And if the gathered criminals could find me on Uulaa at its most chaotic , they were sharper than I imagined . |
| 16 | ‘ I was told , ’ Rab said , Winnie 's stinging remark , and it had stung him , ‘ that ye could fly me on a kite . ’ |
| 17 | Her head was bobbing up and down now , and Peggy , smiling wanly , nodded in return , saying , ‘ Well , I ca n't remember what you did in those early years , Gran , but I remember how you used to bounce me on your knees in time with ‘ To ride a cock horse to Banbury Cross ’ . ’ |
| 18 | One used to slap me on the back and say ‘ Get out there , son , and do it ’ , another would pluck at my sleeve and murmur , ‘ Do n't forget the one-liners … . ’ |
| 19 | Tommy Roberts used to phone me on a Saturday when I first started working there . |
| 20 | If you would pardon me on the sheet , it 's a shame Mr 's not here , because that was his decision , because of the imposed cut in stationery from last year , we ran out of it |
| 21 | I was sixteen , the year of ‘ O ’ levels , and ii was beginning to look as though I would gain a respectable number of passes which would send me on my way to art school and my chosen career as a painter . |
| 22 | When I left school at 14 , I was beginning to feel strange urges within me — an awakening of manhood , a desire to assert myself as an adult , a different feeling towards girls , especially when they would touch me on the body . |
| 23 | He said he would leave me on the wing as long as me and my girlfriend did n't twos-up with each other [ visit one another 's cells during the association period ] . |
| 24 | I am happy to give an undertaking to my hon. Friend that I would be only too delighted to visit his constituency , but I should be grateful if he would release me on Christmas day . |
| 25 | Let's face it , possum , there are some who would put me on a pedestal . |
| 26 | We 'd go to tea with him and Auntie Lucy , and Uncle Joe would sit me on his lap and stroke my hair . |
| 27 | Each week he would sit me on his knee and , under the pretence of asking me about the things I 'd been doing at school , he would squeeze my thighs and waist . |
| 28 | Uncle Bill would perch me on the handlebars of his bicycle and we 'd spin along Lower Granton Road beside the railway lines , with engines and strings of wagons shunting dose to us and the engine-drivers shouting hello to Uncle Bill , and beyond them were the masts and funnels of ships in the harbour . |
| 29 | He will photograph me on the horse and I will have it to keep . |
| 30 | To hell with it , I 'll go down fighting , it will break me on my terms if it breaks me at all . |