Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] me [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It means some bastard not only laid me out cold , and stuck me face-down in the Comer , but even rammed me well down into the mud with a foot in the small of my back to make dead sure of me , before he lit out and left me there to drown . ’ |
| 2 | There are no colours — it kinda bugs me out , I just feel so f—ing glad , so incredibly lucky , that I grew up in America . |
| 3 | ‘ At first he would get angry and only push me around . |
| 4 | Right , only got me down cos I was tired , I told you . |
| 5 | " Then had n't you better let me in ? " |
| 6 | Probably nothing , he was thinking , she 's only winding me up , and the thought that she was gave him a pleasurable kick . |
| 7 | For a few days I had even considered calling the shop Trumper and Salmon , but dropped that idea when I realised that would only tie me in with Charlie for life . |
| 8 | You 'd better count me out . |
| 9 | So let me in on the secret . |
| 10 | Ring them up and say ‘ I hope you do n't mind me messing you about like this but I 've been thinking over your kind offer , and I realize I could fit it in after all because of a sudden change of circumstances at home and my mother 's coming down to help me out — oh , and if there 's a spare ticket — ’ |
| 11 | But Lewis insisted : ‘ There is n't enough money in Britain or America put together to buy me off . |
| 12 | He was also possessive ; he only allowed me out twice a week — Wednesday 's Youth Club and Thursday 's Sally Carmichael 's dancing class — and accompanied me to both ( pity he did n't come to the Cricket Lover 's Ball ) . |
| 13 | The weekend before that they only allowed me out one day overnight |
| 14 | ‘ She was only paying me back for what I did for her , and she should have gone on paying me back . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Actually the Archdeacon was kind enough to fill me in on that aspect of things . |
| 16 | I AM indebted to John Moorey from Portsmouth who has been kind enough to fill me in with some of the details of the extraordinary golfing life of Mary Toogood , nee Johnson , who died earlier this year . |
| 17 | There 's a power cut ; the lights go out and we light candles and gas lamps and end up — a hard core of seven of us ; Andy , me , Howie , another two local lads and a couple of the traveller boys — down in the snooker room where there 's a beat-up looking table and a leak in the ceiling that turns the whole of the stained , green-baize surface into a millimetre-shallow marsh , water dripping from each pocket and dribbling down the bulky legs to the sopping carpet , and we play snooker by the light of the hissing gas lamps , having to hit the white ball really hard even for delicate shots because of the extra rolling resistance the water causes , and the balls make a zizzing , ripping noise as they race across the table and sometimes you can see spray curving up behind them and I 'm feeling really drunk and a bit stoned from a couple of strong Js smoked out in the garden earlier with the travellers but I think this dimly lit water-hazard snooker is just hilarious and I 'm laughing maniacally at it all and I put an arm round Andy 's neck at one point and say , You know I love you , old buddy , and is n't friendship and love what 's it 's really all about ? and why ca n't people just see that and just be nice to each other ? except there are just so many complete bastards in the world , but Andy just shakes his head and I try to kiss him and he gently fends me off and steadies me against one wall and props me up with a snooker cue against my chest and I think this is really funny for some reason and laugh so much I fall over and have distinct problems getting up again and get carried to my room by Andy and one of the travellers and dumped on the bed and fall instantly asleep . |
| 18 | Let's say then , I just , I used to have to work on eleven appointments a week because if I had eleven appointments a week , two people would perhaps blow me out , change their minds , two people would rearrange , two people would say no thank you , and another two would say , yes , but I need to do it next month , which might leave me with two sales . |
| 19 | I was hoping to get back to council work before Christmas , but I recognise that if I rush , it I will only set me back . |
| 20 | Again , due to limitations of time I am unable to attend many of the events which you are kind enough to notify me about in advance , so as part of your planning why not appoint someone to write an article and take a photograph for the Catholic Voice . |
| 21 | Someone else was going to do this one and then they suddenly switched me on to it . ’ |
| 22 | Laybacks and handjams have been especially efficient at suckering me into their grip only to spew me out into airborne humiliation . |
| 23 | Mrs Tiller suddenly pulled me out and made me stand at the side . |
| 24 | Well strange enough rang me up |
| 25 | So ring me back . |
| 26 | ‘ Better pass me up some white flares . ’ |
| 27 | These invitations made Henrietta feel that she would do anything , even return to the well , to avoid the company of the two youths one of whom bore across his chest the legend MY MOTHER WENT TO ISRAEL AND ONLY BROUGHT ME BACK THIS LOUSY T-SHIRT . |
| 28 | Well I got trapped under er under one of the er rocks that f fell down and then managed to get that off me leg and went to give assistance to er the machine-man , the man on the machine which er trapped as well and er realized then that me leg had me leg was broken so took me down the end of the road and managed to get the stone off the lad and the machine and you got carried in to hospital . |
| 29 | Another pull for ten minutes or so brought me up on to the summit , where I sat down to have my lunch . |
| 30 | Hellen was good enough to invite me along to some of them . |