Example sentences of "[verb] me [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What irritates me about Vienna is a certain not-quite-definable smugness , a feeling that somehow this place feels itself to be the centre . |
| 2 | I was so rattled I glanced round to make sure this was n't a signal for an army of bunnies like this Dobermann of a beast to come up from behind and tear me to shreds . |
| 3 | ‘ I would dearly love to know why you keep sticking me with motives that I just do n't have ! |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm sure I would if he 's a friend of yours , Harry , but I think it 's not such a good idea for you to include me with Aubrey and Madeleine . |
| 5 | He may throw me among strangers . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've enough pocket-money left to see me through Christmas , and the silver money will do for clothes and so on . |
| 7 | I had just received a telephone call from the barracks which informed me that officials from Horseferry Road magistrates court had phoned demanding to see me about nonpayment of fines . |
| 8 | For a moment I thought he was going to get back to the DIY metaphor and start to try to get them to see me as undercoat or Jesus Christ as primer , but , instead , he recovered himself enough to say , ‘ Great News ! ’ |
| 9 | A twenty four year old woman came to see me for treatment on the ward , a smoker . |
| 10 | Ronnie Ross : ‘ At the time he came to see me for lessons , groups like The Rolling Stones were just beginning to come into vogue although he was more interested in jazz , and we 'd sit and talk about jazz and jazz musicians quite often . |
| 11 | I 'd been hoping my daughter would be brought to see me at Holloway and was frightened of her turning up and finding me not there . |
| 12 | He came to see me with Sir Patrick Nairne . |
| 13 | I mean , she 'll go on a bus but no further , and we tried everything to get her to come to America — she would have loved to see me on Broadway , and she wanted to get there . |
| 14 | If you would like to see me on top of Michael 's bonfire ring in and the er th th the more amount of votes we get in for that |
| 15 | You came to see me on Sunday , ’ she added , in case Loretta had forgotten . |
| 16 | But more particularly to see me on stage — tonight . |
| 17 | Mr Jaggers told me Miss Havisham wished to see me on business , so I said I would go the next day . |
| 18 | ‘ I still do n't see why she should be pleased to see me on Saturday evening , ’ said Henry Tyler mildly . |
| 19 | when I was sixteen because it 's then I started to get these free passes and I had a sister then who lived at Rye and I had never been across London so the next door neighbour came with me to see me across London er because I was so young you see and I said right as long as you show me across London I can come back alone , you see , and so I came back alone and I , that 's when I started , so from sixteen and er and as I say I went to Cambridge in the nineteen thirty one , it was the last day of well say nineteen thirty two , you see , and , and also in the twenties I was going on holiday alone and I went to once er to the Isle of Man and when I was er I , I sat next , well being by myself , you see , they put me in , to a little table near the wall . |
| 20 | ‘ Because you ai n't going to see me till lunch-time . |
| 21 | So funnily enough , the girl that I made friends with when I was a tracer , Penny , erm she came to see me in land army uniform you see , and I said , ’ Right , if I ca n't go in the forces , I 'll join the land army ’ , so I said ’ alright ’ . |
| 22 | The social worker I had at the time kept coming to see me in Low Newton and saying , ‘ Do you not think it 's best if you get him adopted ? ’ |
| 23 | Mr. Docherty came to see me in April , desperately concerned because he was homeless and had insufficient money with which to feed himself . |
| 24 | Mind you , he 'd come home from university one time to see me in bed with flu , glasses and no front teeth , so I guess he was pretty immune to my charmlessness — or was too shortsighted himself to notice . |
| 25 | Mind you , he 'd come home from university one time to see me in bed with ‘ flu , glasses and no front teeth , so I guess he was pretty immune to my charmlessness — or was too shortsighted himself to notice . |
| 26 | You want to see me in gaol . |
| 27 | I can not want a man who wants to see me in gaol . |
| 28 | ‘ Father Laverty came to see me in hospital two days after the birth and had the nerve to look at my beautiful baby and ask me to put her up for adoption . ’ |
| 29 | Now she is absolutely delighted to see me in Formula One . ’ |
| 30 | D' you want to see me in prison ? ’ |