Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | He went on gazing at me for a moment , then asked : ‘ Everything in hand downstairs ? ’ |
| 2 | I mean I … you know I do talk quite openly to my pupils which is a little daring of me because the situation in Cyprus is a little different from here … |
| 3 | I have had one or two in recent years , mostly given to me by kind people , but things did n't work out with them . |
| 4 | He 's an actor of sorts , mostly resting like me . |
| 5 | Keeps on laughing at me and running away ! |
| 6 | As one student patiently explained to me when I asked him how he knew what results he was looking for : |
| 7 | ‘ You 'd better explain to me what it is she does as a job . |
| 8 | This time Alison refused the bait , merely gazing at me with her large bovine eyes . |
| 9 | ‘ Why are you being so mean to me ? ’ he demanded , sprawling full-length across the bed , despite his promise to sleep on the couch , and unloosening his tie . |
| 10 | Fortunately Roy was only toying with me , eventually agreeing to participate in good spirit . |
| 11 | ‘ I think you 'd better come with me too . |
| 12 | ‘ You 'd better come with me , Angela , ’ said Farmer Yatton . |
| 13 | My line was : ‘ You better come with me . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ You 'd better come with me , ’ Josie said then , with resignation . |
| 15 | ‘ You 'd better come with me . ’ |
| 16 | She took hers ‘ on the rocks ’ as I believe they say in America and then filled up with water and I realized it was only broached for me . |
| 17 | And it merely occurred to me , actually I was sitting in the unemployment benefit office and I said to them er er at one of my interviews , |
| 18 | I was therefore delighted when one day in May they suddenly reported to me at Luqa . |
| 19 | I waved at the receptionist , who had obviously forgotten about me , as I left , saying : ‘ Sorry , the despatcher 's given me the wrong street . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Then you should be good enough to work with me . |
| 21 | Or — and this thought only occurred to me when I was out on the street and running for the hill as fast as I could — as if there was something else behind his eyes , looking out at the world , waiting for the awful moment when it would start to take apart our little corner of the planet , piece by shabby piece . |
| 22 | The second one — well , I almost hoped it would be a little shocked , as they often are , because of the idea that had suddenly come to me . ’ |
| 23 | I need more certain light in which to catch and express the sense of exultation which has suddenly come upon me . |
| 24 | ‘ It suddenly occurred to me , ’ he says looking back , ‘ what if something serious happens there , or even a hint of something . |
| 25 | Then something suddenly occurred to me and I nearly cried with relief . |
| 26 | It suddenly occurred to me that just as I wanted the boys to dress according to Western ideas when they were in London , so the Sheikha and Sheikha Grandmother would like me to dress according to their ideas of fashion when I was with them . |
| 27 | It suddenly occurred to me that I had been so busy enjoying myself on the Mantela that I had never even opened either of them . |
| 28 | I was driving on my way through beautiful scenery in Wales where I live and it suddenly occurred to me how this would all be altered in a nuclear war . |
| 29 | And when I left home for the first time , it suddenly occurred to me that there was no reason why I should n't change it . |
| 30 | One of the kids asked about the foal and it suddenly occurred to me they 'd like to see all the mares , so I had them brought inside specially for visitors ' day . " |