Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] me [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But today he has looked at me two or three times in a certain way . " |
| 2 | ‘ It does n't matter to me one way or the other . |
| 3 | She came to me one day and asked me if I would stand for the council , which I did . |
| 4 | Well , there were n't so many old people then when we came here we were classed as one of the oldest people because er they were all very young people and you were talking about Dame Leah Manning and she came to me one day and she said we 're going to have a problem on the town because it 's a very young town . |
| 5 | Toomey also sees the decline in human terms : ‘ If you 'd have said to me 20 years ago that there would be no trading floor at the Stock Exchange , I would n't have believed it , ’ he says . |
| 6 | It all seemed to me one more way of getting people to stop thinking for themselves — a highly convenient and complacent way of life — for if you took the advice offered and made a mess of things , then it could always be someone else 's fault . |
| 7 | ‘ There 's not a man or woman here who does n't know what happened to me one night ten years ago ! |
| 8 | I 'll tell you what happened to me seven months ago . |
| 9 | What a pity you could n't have talked to me four years ago , instead of simply walking out . ’ |
| 10 | Professor Davie 's further remarks ( on pp. 164 and 165 of the same book ) must not be missed ; they seem to me one of the high points of modern appreciation of Wordsworth 's greatness . |
| 11 | Now I had to work even harder , as people came to look at me ten times a day . |
| 12 | It finished for me three years ago . |
| 13 | I love the Christmas services , but I did n't argue with him because I know he means to get rid of me one way or another . |
| 14 | I shall have with me two clerks , and , of course , yourself . |
| 15 | Oh yes , they 're very , very clever so Doug was saying to me one day in work , walking dogs together in Wellington , he said I had this fellow yesterday , he just convinced a board that he did n't need any more treatment , he was cured erm , he would n't do any more |
| 16 | I knew that some of his friends were into drugs , but I did n't know Ryan was until he collapsed on me one day . |
| 17 | The diabetes can sometimes disappear if you lose weight and maybe that will happen to me one of these days as I 've lost quite a lot recently . |
| 18 | It seems to me two of the elements are lend themselves to some sort of arithmetical assessment an and the County 's gone through at . |
| 19 | That seems to me one way of dealing with inquiries about telephone numbers . |
| 20 | What would happen if I loved him more than he loved me , and if he were to cheat on me one day ? |
| 21 | ‘ I remember when Jason first came and auditioned for me one day after school in his school uniform , very hot and perspiring , and a typical teenage schoolboy who had just run to the audition . |
| 22 | It is also a vindication of the lesson Weill , though one of Berlin 's most intellectual musicians , had taken from his mentor : ‘ My teacher Busoni , at the end of his life , hammered into me one basic truth which he had arrived at after 50 years pure aestheticism — the fear of triviality is the greatest handicap for the modern artist , it is the main reason why ‘ modern ’ music got more and more removed from reality . ’ |
| 23 | Well the the or residual element er if you take out the I have n't got this figure actually to in this little table I 've got here but if you bear with me one moment . |
| 24 | ‘ You do n't even know the full extent of what you did to me six years ago . |
| 25 | But I think conductors would not be the answer because what happens when the driver is smoking as has happened to me three times in three weeks . |
| 26 | and I worked for the council so he spoke to me one day and he said , Will you cut the roads with a tractor and a mower . |
| 27 | I 'll say this , if he 's done it , he 's done something more than you hulks 'ave ever done ; it 's been left to me two lasses to breed . |
| 28 | We have had our ups and downs , but I have a very great regard for the organization and great affection for the head of the Accident Investigation and prevention Section , Olof Fritsch , who , notwithstanding all the times I twisted his tail , remains for me one of the great professionals totally devoted to improving safety in the air , and a true friend . |
| 29 | Superintendent said to me one day , ‘ You do n't like this fellow very well . ’ |
| 30 | My long-suffering owl chauffeur said to me one day while he was yet again driving me to some venue I was going to give a talk at , ‘ You and that bird are costing me a bloody fortune ! ’ |