Example sentences of "[pron] [v-ing] me [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not surprising , therefore , that hardly a day goes by without someone asking me to recommend ‘ a single volume with good colour photos of insignia and uniforms , that I can use as a standard reference on Special Forces ’ . |
| 2 | Had she been Matron , her telling me to sit down would have told me immediately that whatever her reason for wanting to see me it was not to sack me . |
| 3 | me , me , me going me going to the moon |
| 4 | What are you wanting me to do about it ? ’ |
| 5 | ‘ And I still find the idea of you wanting me to do it … unsettling . ’ |
| 6 | Are you wanting me to warm you up ? |
| 7 | ‘ What exactly were you expecting me to do ? ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Are you expecting me to offer you a permanent commitment when we do n't even know each other properly ? ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Were you expecting me to fail ? ’ |
| 10 | I think it should only take a few minutes to have you begging me to make love to you … ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I can hear you letting me know . |
| 12 | ‘ Are you asking me to collect the grouse for you ? ’ |
| 13 | But , said Mr Mulrine : ‘ We have already had one fatality because of parked cars on Hollyhurst Road are you asking me to say that one death is acceptable ? ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Are you asking me to forget this — this hour in the bush ? ’ |
| 15 | Are you asking me to believe that he deliberately set out to sabotage your work ? ’ |
| 16 | Her breath caught , and she sent him a startled look and , as her heart gave a merry flutter to see that his dark-eyed glance , dark and good-humoured if she was not mistaken , was on her again , ‘ Are you inviting me to call you — Vendelin ? ’ she dared , and hardly believed that it could be so . |
| 17 | Why are you making me wait like this ? |
| 18 | I 'll pay my respects to him without you telling me to take a quick look . |
| 19 | She told me once to do some lines and I goes , ‘ It 's not worth you telling me to do them , because I wo n't do them ’ , and she goes , ‘ Well , I think you should do them ’ , and I goes , ‘ Well , I 'm not going to , so I do n't know what you 'll have to do with me ’ . |
| 20 | you telling me to stop smoking for |
| 21 | I mean , of course it 's always done that , but now , with you telling me to look at it , this seems the most noteworthy feature , this clench . ’ |
| 22 | And it 's putting me off , having you watching me like a hawk all the time . |
| 23 | I 'm getting paranoid about that , determined not to sign anything , worried that maybe I already have when they first brought me here and said it was just a receipt for personal effects or a legal-aid application or whatever , and I worry about them getting me to sign something when I 'm tired and they 've been interviewing me in shifts and all I want to do is go to bed and sleep and they say oh do us all a favour and sign this and you can sleep , come on now ; it 's just a formality you can always deny it later , change your mind , but you ca n't you ca n't of course , they 're lying and you ca n't ; I even worry about signing something in my sleep , or them hypnotising me and getting me to do it that way ; hell , I do n't know what they get up to . |
| 24 | ‘ Well , listen to that , and after she near 'ad me cryin' me eyes out for 'er . |
| 25 | ‘ Oh , yer cheeky cuss , Sergeant Joe , it would be you to catch me fixin' me stocking garter . ’ |
| 26 | He wrote to me begging me to send him some cuttings of my pubic hairs , and I did ! |
| 27 | There 's a gap in the wall , and it goes right onto the platform — there ai n't no fence or nothing stopping me getting out . |
| 28 | All these days when I have been silent you have stared at me willing me to speak . |
| 29 | If that 's what they want for me , Benny asked herself , why on God 's earth are they allowing me to go to university ? |
| 30 | I ca n't see him allowing me take the children so far away from London . ’ |