Example sentences of "[prep] me [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I understand all right , and if you think you 're going to live off me for the rest of your life you 're mistaken . |
| 2 | Two you had off me for the fete . |
| 3 | It was very tiring and actually the perspiration just used to be dropping off me by the time I got into the flat . |
| 4 | It was a meadow ready for cutting and suddenly I realized that it was high summer , the sun was hot and that every step brought the fragrance of clover and warm grass rising about me into the crystal freshness of the air . |
| 5 | ‘ Since this campaign began , not a day has passed without them trying to spin some story or other about me to the local paper . |
| 6 | When I get out of my train at Victoria and look about me at the other two hundred — mostly strangers , not least so those whose names as early schoolfellows dawn on me when they disappeared , — I sometimes think that one or two of us ought to speak out instead of just voting and making a remark in the complaint book once or twice a year and writing to a newspaper less often . |
| 7 | And I was married to a soldier so I did n't have any family round about me at the time so it was it was pretty hard . |
| 8 | Form 1A were assigned to Mr R. J. ‘ Bunny ’ Warren for Mathematics and I still have the reports he wrote about me at the time . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm insulted that he 's even talking about me on the tape — and I 'm sure the other players he 's mentioned feel the same . |
| 10 | Fortunately I do n't have to do the really dangerous stuff , buteven backstage in the wings I did have a few things falling about me on the last day in Manchester . |
| 11 | He seemed to have forgotten about me in the middle of his sentence . |
| 12 | He and I had had a heart to heart in the hotel following some comments supposedly made by him about me in the press , more particularly in the Sun . |
| 13 | " Everything written about me in the law of Moses and the prophets and the psalms must be fulfilled . " |
| 14 | Is everyone talking about me in the shack ? |
| 15 | I feel their flames go through me to the tower . |
| 16 | He was good enough to organize a complimentary flight for me on the Imperial Airways ' flying boat which plied the sea and air routes between Long Island Sound and Bermuda several times each week . |
| 17 | ‘ I think I will ride pillion on the way out , but I reckon it 'll be the sidecar for me on the way back . ’ |
| 18 | Nine till one for me on the late show Adrian . |
| 19 | Is not it true that some documents that the Public Accounts Committee receives are not published , such as the memorandum that the National Audit Office drew up for me on the accountability of United Nations agencies ? |
| 20 | Please reserve a place for me on the POTENTIAL TEACHERS DAY on Saturday 8th March , for which I enclose the fee of £5.00 . |
| 21 | She recently changed erm , to come and work for me on the Warwickshire area about four weeks ago . |
| 22 | And er then Mr said it was safe for his wife to return and children , that they , trouble was they could n't get a seat for me on the plane . |
| 23 | Ann , would you be able to have Sally for me on the first of May ? |
| 24 | driver for me on the phone , so he calls me up , oh we 've got load of them he said |
| 25 | Should you wish advice from the world 's greatest detective you may enquire for me at the Rose and Crown . |
| 26 | In one week I listened to the English boy singing the praises of my dark colouring and frizzy hair , felt him kiss me on the cheek with obvious pleasure whenever I cooked a meal and when I came in from work , or when we sat watching television together , and found him waiting for me at the end of the road when I was late back for some reason . |
| 27 | I think about Mr Jackson and I get a sort of uncomfortable feeling when I remember he was waiting for me at the house and I did n't come back . |
| 28 | Two days sitting in the plane and fifty bourbons later I had this young born-again advocate holding my hand and praying for me at the top of his voice . |
| 29 | The bigger problem for me at the time was the way the orchestra was playing . |
| 30 | ‘ The important thing for me at the moment is to stay in control . |