Example sentences of "[prep] [conj] [verb] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless a sheriff officer has the right to come to our home , take possession of items which I have paid for and take me to court . |
| 2 | Mostly my father just gives me the money that I ask for and lets me get what I want for myself . |
| 3 | Conservative in , three times that for which we put on for and let me remind you again that out of that seventeen pounds , you put eleven on , not us , you put it on . |
| 4 | But then he stood , although his hand rested momentarily on my shoulder , as if to reassure me ; to say it did not matter . |
| 5 | His face goes white , then red , and he raises his fist to me as if to hit me , thinks better of it , pushes his nose in the air and his voice down to his boots . |
| 6 | There is a mystic , psychic quality about them that is pleasantly disturbing , and often one of them will gently take my hand and gaze steadily into my eyes as if willing me better and I feel sort of honoured to be welcomed into their society . |
| 7 | ‘ Have a cigarette , ’ he says , and as if to persuade me he lights one himself in the corridor . |
| 8 | Two doors shut the glass away when it was not in use , as if to remind me that too much self-admiration was unacceptable . |
| 9 | I know something about you that you do not know yourself ’ He paused , again as if to let me prepare myself . |
| 10 | She put the receiver down quickly as if to stop me from asking anything else about her illness , and it reminded me sharply of my Aunt Viv , bright , spirited and horse mad to the end . |
| 11 | A girl in an apple-green school tunic advanced on me , her hand raised as if to give me a slap . |
| 12 | Without warning she reached her hand sideways and took mine and pressed it , as if to give me courage ; and perhaps to make me identify her with the original , gentle Lily . |
| 13 | She drained her glass and swept her arm upwards , palm extended as if giving me a gift . |
| 14 | She had caressed the name , purred over it , spoken it as if showing me a great treasure . |
| 15 | Coombes leaned out of the window and shouted ‘ Come on then , this time ’ as if to pull me off the road . |
| 16 | He looked up , studying my face , ‘ All black , ’ he said , as if to comfort me . |
| 17 | Whether he guessed what I was likely to say I do n't know , but he spoke with a sudden rush as if to prevent me from saying something that we would both have to accept and talk about . |
| 18 | The doctors laugh and the surgeon says : ‘ Yes we do know how to examine our patients , even without proper equipment , ’ as if to convince me of their capabilities . |
| 19 | But they do n't speak any English , I do n't speak any Arabic , so I 'm gesturing away about the bar-tailed lark and not being able to go into the forbidden zone , and somehow or other the leader understands what I 'm going on about and makes me understand that because they 're nomads they do n't have to follow international boundaries . |
| 20 | I know inside Mr Crangle is curious only as to what I 'm like and wishes me no real harm , but there are others who do . ’ |
| 21 | Terry left the group he was sitting with and joined me . |
| 22 | Tim Pollard , the Marketing Director , even extended the courtesy of collecting me from and returning me to Birmingham Airport . |
| 23 | Come along in and let me introduce you . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Come on in and help me make sense of this life I live . ’ |
| 25 | Out here is dark and lonely , and as convenient a place as they could wish for to stick a knife in and leave me cold . |
| 26 | Marie comes back in and gives me a smile . |
| 27 | If you can let me know who you want me to write to or give me a source book to start |
| 28 | And they used to and take me there . |
| 29 | ‘ I invited them to use anything they wanted to and to let me know if they could improve on it . |
| 30 | He 'd just about made it by the time Private Boyd had strapped my gun belt on and issued me with a plastic face visor which fitted with adjustable straps at the back . |