Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] me [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the end , it worked out very much better than expected , essentially because the two companies had outstanding chief executives , both of whom eventually succeeded me as chairman . |
| 2 | My course will eventually qualify me for a good career but meanwhile I 'm struggling on an allowance . |
| 3 | The good old pre-Taylor Report surge occured , I was flung about fifteen foot in the air , the soap box splintered , my dad acrobatically caught me in his teeth , and this big evil looking bloke got a nail in his leg from the now flattened soapbox.It was better than staying up late to watch an American Werewolf in London.The rest is history , and I 've been going ever since . |
| 4 | Rickie suddenly asked me in what purported to be a tone of serious enquiry . |
| 5 | And that annoyed me enough to drive me to my cabin , to clean myself up and choose fresh clothing . |
| 6 | only helping me with the |
| 7 | No doubt my readers will have bigger and better examples of the persistence of facies which so fascinates me in this chapter , but I write as far as possible from my own experience . |
| 8 | Not strongly enough to kill me for that , but certainly strongly enough to make killing me satisfying in that respect also . |
| 9 | You 've been clever enough to catch me in a honeytrap partly of my own making ! |
| 10 | I expect Sinbad feels that as I 'm in the last few months of my final year , she 'd better pack me with as much experience as possible before I get whisked away to act staff nurse in some ward . |
| 11 | ‘ Then I 'm going to The Casbah , so expect me to be late . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I do n't have a lot of money when I come home and my parents , who are both on income support , are basically keeping me during holidays . ’ |
| 13 | so touch me with the memories you 've made |
| 14 | Dusk was falling swiftly , as it always does in the tropics , and the silence that had so impressed me by daylight suddenly became noisy with the night life of the jungly-type trees in the mountains behind-the bull frogs , strange bird cries , the never-ending background of the cicadas . |
| 15 | Her cheeks , which had been so white the previous evening , now had colour , and instead of sagging with exhaustion she radiated the extraordinary vitality that had so attracted me at our first meeting on the Cutty Sark . |
| 16 | to provide me with the reference , would you be kind enough to provide me with a reference and send it via oh my God ! |
| 17 | In August , an acquaintance gave him the address of a London representative ‘ who will apparently introduce me to Noël and Oliver and Bobby ! ’ |
| 18 | I do n't think a person told I do n't think a person told to apologize is n't rea really an apology so I think there must be a reason why you did n't and so told me on Sunday why you did n't . |
| 19 | Then they decided perhaps I did n't have to stay in that one after all , so put me into another single cell , which was equally disgusting . |
| 20 | ‘ You better send me to a tutorial college before I 'm too old . ’ |
| 21 | Obviously blames me for sticking a needle into him , and I expect he always will . ’ |
| 22 | The Leith-based Small , 19 , who reached the last 16 of the 1992 Embassy World Championship , said : ‘ This is my last event of the season , but I have still learned a great deal and I 'm sure it can only benefit me in the years to come . ’ |
| 23 | Of course I am not advocating a return to the kind of education that so wounded me as a child . |
| 24 | Cobalt said wryly : ‘ Yes , and he only told me about it because I paid him . ’ |
| 25 | Well he , he appreciated at the previous table show on the sixth of October and that was a case when it was always you know , because Danny only told me on that night that he could come . |
| 26 | you suddenly put me on the spot asking me for money . |
| 27 | The innocent words suddenly filled me with horror : there had been a time before I was born , a time when I had not existed , a time when I lacked individual consciousness — this last being the most horrifying notion . |
| 28 | No doubt you will merely accuse me of being an old fuddy-duddy trying to stop young people having fun . |
| 29 | Only let me past the walls and I ask no more . ’ |
| 30 | I learned that sex without emotional involvement or more than a fleeting physical attraction was more sad than fulfilling and that ‘ getting even ’ could only motivate me for so long — particularly since my husband was blithely unaware that I was evening the score . |