Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [to-vb] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | Selina donned an apron and put her hair up under a baseball cap and prickled with female make-do and knowhow , while Mandy and Debby took it in turns to amuse me downstairs . |
| 2 | I shall never forget the kindness of the many people who took it in turns to give me a lift , so that I did n't have to drive there and back . |
| 3 | As for you , you 'd better come to see me this afternoon . |
| 4 | ‘ You only pretended to believe me ! ’ she accused him furiously . |
| 5 | He began to stammer something about a mistake being made … that he had merely come to ask me to leave his boy alone … leave his boy alone … what a bloody liar . |
| 6 | Lord Byron so loves to hear me play ! ’ |
| 7 | He wants to give me two years , but the board only want to give me one . |
| 8 | ‘ I only want to sell me flowers wherever I find meself a customer . ’ |
| 9 | I have been encouraged to find that the young are not so predisposed to put me aside at the age of seventy and that a new generation of students and artists regard me as something of a cult figure . |
| 10 | They are interrupting my fixed gaze into the third ring of the electric fire , or my autistic pacing around the living room , as I try to determine whether the print that I thought was beautiful is in fact so vulgar that it is lying in wait to expose me to ridicule . |
| 11 | I was surprised that he so eagerly sought to confront me . |
| 12 | Dear Rothenstein , Now that the Mexican president has provided you with the beak and talons of an Aztec eagle you may perhaps feel better equipped to face me in open contest . |
| 13 | You 're still sort of saying I get a discount really , you 're still saying it 's only going to cost me two hundred a year . |
| 14 | Always before he had only had to touch me for me to be ready for the final act which we 'd always denied ourselves ; there was no reason to suppose that would n't happen again . |
| 15 | At the end of the day , they 're all going to attack me , ’ Stone sighs . |
| 16 | and has only offered to buy me one beer so far . |
| 17 | Dennis thoughtfully offered to drop me off in town . |
| 18 | My father had gone off up to bed and she suddenly began to tell me what her life with him had been , the bribery and the humiliation and so on . |
| 19 | Dear Comrade Surkov , You are warmly invited to do me the honour of attending my forthcoming Inauguration in Washington DC , on 20 January 1989 , as 41st President of the United States , and to read your famous poem of international accord , ‘ Friendship ’ . |
| 20 | He swung the gun upwards on his mount and was obviously set to cut me in half with his next pass when the knifehilt appeared in his chest , lodged deep between two bandoliers . |
| 21 | All letters would be greatly appreciated to assist me with my dissertation . |
| 22 | I ca n't harm them — the way you once harmed my family when you only meant to harm me ! |
| 23 | that 's what I said to mum , you know , that 's why I so wanted to pass me , me test , cos I said to mum erm , see I kept it , I only had six hundred quid redundancy , six hundred and twenty eight pounds , that 's all I had , apart , I had me wages what was owed and me holiday pay , but my , me actual redundancy cheque was only six hundred and twenty eight quid |
| 24 | My parents could only afford to give me some small change on Sundays , but it was enough for a cinema ticket and an ice cream . |
| 25 | This only serves to alert me of course , though my brain has already caught on . |
| 26 | ‘ There is n't much point ; you 're not going to live long enough to have to introduce me at parties . ’ |
| 27 | She entirely neglected to inform me that Robbie was a girl — just as she evidently neglected to tell you who I was . ’ |
| 28 | It fulfilled none of my expectations and seemed to be merely trying to make me laugh at the fact that it had left me standing there grasping at nothing . |
| 29 | You 'd entirely fail to charm me , in fact I 'd detest it |
| 30 | While I knew he was only trying to give me a kick up the backside for my own good , I felt really , really low . |