Example sentences of "[noun] me [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some time previously and after a wait of five years my name had been proposed and seconded for membership , but when my proposer heard that two members were of a mind to blackball me in the ballot , he ( without telling me ) withdrew my candidature . |
| 2 | Carrie me across the threshold , darling ! |
| 3 | Even so , I had been surprised when he agreed to back me on the amateur circuit for one year after I left the university . |
| 4 | Third , she claims to have authorisation from Mephistco to boot me off the assignment . |
| 5 | So dead bodies are hygienically whisked away by undertakers within a very short ti me of the person dying , funerals are conducted in twenty minutes at a busy crematorium with a bizarre queue of other funerals waiting in an approach way , and grieving people are expected to be back at their employment in as short a time as possible . |
| 6 | It would only be a matter of ti me before the pubs , the little grocer and the dry-cleaner 's were replaced by some establishment selling something on which an enormous mark-up could be obtained . |
| 7 | I phoned Shirley , a friend I 'd made who ran a travel agency , and asked her to book me on the mid-day Concorde . |
| 8 | He was reaching out from death to hurt me in the same old way , only this time I did n't have to know . |
| 9 | He grabbed my tie and I thought he was going to nut me in the face . |
| 10 | What does interest me about the leaf stem she suggested it should be put in the foyer of County Hall well when Nottingham becomes a unitary stat unitary authority and County Hall is made into an hotel perhaps it would be a bit unfortunate for the visitors to have the leaf stem er when they book in . |