Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [v-ing] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then he turned to me , apologising for keeping me waiting , and showed me in to his office . |
| 2 | She sighed , wondering why the mere thought of it made her feel depressed , then she turned to Silas and said hastily , ‘ So there 's no need for you to worry about taking me to see a kiwi . |
| 3 | The medieval element was a strong influence too : as a result , my mother was cajoled into making me a suede money bag with a draw-string and five polished threepenny bits for sovereigns . |
| 4 | It is dangerous ( and forbidden to employees ) , but is you observe common-sense , stand firmly and hold the wood in same way each time , with all soft pink bits well away from the blade , you will not end up like the man in the story that the same Health and Safety Officer delighted in telling me . |
| 5 | But they will object to seeing me . ’ |
| 6 | Ockleton paused to consider a point that had apparently baffled him , then said : ‘ If Miss Mallender never referred to visiting me , Mr |
| 7 | He concentrated on training me to become an Olympic athlete . |
| 8 | By now dear old Monty , resigned to losing me as I got more ambitious , had pushed my salary up to nearly £10 a week . |
| 9 | Very great odium T. Poole incurred by bringing me here … when Wordsworth came & he likewise by T. Poole 's agency settled here — You can not conceive the tumult , calumnies , & apparatus of threatened persecutions which this event has occasioned round about us . |
| 10 | Later , from South Africa , he wrote to thank me for this advice , but now he reciprocated by telling me , with great gentleness , that I should not go on hoping , as he himself had searched the P.O.W. lists , and Leslie 's name was not on any of them . |
| 11 | ‘ Do n't even think of asking me about female membership , ’ barked the old Sgt-Major . |
| 12 | Do n't think of marrying me ! ’ |
| 13 | But then there is always the danger that these crazy policemen and judges might succeed in hanging me or my nearest and dearest . |
| 14 | Similarly , an imaginary case in which I would claim to know that p , but where p is false , will succeed in preventing me from claiming to know that p in a new case which is not relevantly ( i.e. , discernibly to me ) different . |
| 15 | They did n't succeed in oppressing me when I was in prison for 16 years and I ask you now , do n't stand alone when you can be together ’ . |
| 16 | Of course he opposed the Reform Bill itself , yet said in a letter to Crabb Robinson ( 5 February 1833 ) : ‘ You mistake in supposing me an Anti-Reformer — that I never was , but an Anti-Bill man , heart and soul . ’ |
| 17 | How did the company benefit from having me on the staff ? |
| 18 | I took the lift up to Reception and Purvis delighted in telling me that Patterson was still at lunch . |
| 19 | It is probably too delicate to ask the principal the final question : How much of your time will you give to instructing me ? — but you may be able to find out the probabilities from any other articled clerks in the firm . |
| 20 | ‘ There you are , Mrs Sutherland , ’ he 'd say , as if the sun had risen on seeing me , or indeed , I was the sun . |
| 21 | Reinforcement occurs when I help you in some way and you reciprocate by helping me . |
| 22 | It is because you do not lose touch with your present identity that I hesitate to ask the question ‘ What is your name ? ’ too early in the session ; the patient 's instinct would be to answer by giving me today 's name . |
| 23 | Did not get the job — dear , former [ xx ] Manager , drove me up there ( 6 miles north of Perth ) and then on to Dunkeld where he insisted on giving me lunch — he had originally thought of taking me to Gleneagles , but I had to get back to the outplacement people — and did so , only to find ‘ my ’ counsellor had , for the third time , failed to keep an appointment with me . |
| 24 | They would never have dreamed of telling me to take a certain attitude towards white people . |
| 25 | ‘ At no stage , though , did he look like knocking me out , like most of his opponents , ’ said Jacobs . |
| 26 | Begin with thanking me for him ; look at him as a person as important to me as you are . ’ |
| 27 | I thought that his appearance meant he had really been suffering very much , longing for me to give up my work , and had only refrained from asking me to do so out of respect for my ‘ rights ’ . |
| 28 | He did not hesitate in offering me his reserve goalie , the Ukrainian , Igor Pushov . |
| 29 | ‘ I think that certainly helped in preparing me for the jump — after all I had three years to think about it , ’ said Nigel . |
| 30 | ‘ Why do you insist on seeing me in this horrible way ? ’ she finished up . |