Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] me [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | joined PTGI from Guinness Brewing Great Britain in July last year and , as he says , ‘ things have n't stopped for me since . |
| 2 | Er says he 's gon na knock for me about five yeah and we 're gon na be there at five yeah . |
| 3 | Similarly a Yorkshire millworker describes himself as brought up by a grandfather ‘ who cared for me as perhaps few grandchildren are cared for ; ’ when the old man died during his teens , ‘ by this death I lost a friend . ’ |
| 4 | If the European sales companies get their fingers out and get the languages checked for me then yes . |
| 5 | And , gulping the sweet air , I gazed about me gratefully at the clean green land where I worked and made my living . |
| 6 | They called the film they made about me Too Long a Winter , and I have to declare immediately that I do not care for winter at all , for neither mind nor body agrees with it . |
| 7 | ‘ That goes for me too , ’ Ace said . |
| 8 | Does he think about me sometimes ? |
| 9 | But erm I think I had lots of people praying for me back here because I did n't have any problem with them and I was the only one who did n't . |
| 10 | King demonstrated for me how easy it was to knock up a backing track in his home studio and then erase it again at the touch of a button . |
| 11 | Short hair is strictly forbidden for me not only because of my culture , but because of my lesbianism . |
| 12 | His pride of heart and condition may again take place and a man who could in so little a space first love me , then hate , then banish me his house and now send for me again in such affectionate terms may still waver , may still deceive thee . |
| 13 | And she come knocking for me about two month 's later . |
| 14 | I do n't mind what people say about me any more . |
| 15 | This garden ( protected from the road on one side by huge , untidy gum trees , in a permanent state of reptilian slough , leaving the discarded bark hanging from the newly emerged , silvery trunks ) has for me so powerful a charm because it returns me to my childhood , with a complete collection of odours , insects , fragrances , ponds and over-vigorous plants . |
| 16 | ‘ Now will you wait for me here in the dark till I take back the keys , and not imagine I 've locked you in to starve ? |
| 17 | She says she understands and will wait for me inside . |
| 18 | Do n't expect they 'd give a thank you to work for me neither . ’ |
| 19 | My niece used to work for me too . |
| 20 | I do n't want you to worry about me out here — you know you can trust me . |
| 21 | Agnes turned away from her sister and there was a sad note in her voice as she said , ‘ He cares for me merely because I 'm useful to him , that 's all . |
| 22 | He looks after me right well , but Paddy 's son is just too much for 'im . ’ |
| 23 | Detchard moved towards me again , stepped in the doctor 's blood on the floor — and fell to the ground himself . |
| 24 | Why could he not be walking with me here ? |
| 25 | I have still got the thoughts and prayers for others who are left in Iraq , who are very ill and very , very old , and er I hope they will be with their family like my husband is going to come with me today , and I think it 's a very very happy news . |
| 26 | ‘ I want you to dine with me tomorrow night , ’ Damian said as they left Cartier 's and strolled along the marble corridors . |
| 27 | I said , I phoned up me too . |
| 28 | On the drive back to camp we were all rather happy , Jimmy in the front driving with me half asleep in the passenger seat , and Henry and Rosemary behind . |
| 29 | He replied that he recognized that ‘ there are those who agree with me politically but who disagree with me religiously ’ and said he wanted their political support . |
| 30 | Behold how I lay down the great weight of sorrow I have carried with me so long . |