Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] me [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I reckon Marie likes me being round her , and doing things for her . |
| 2 | The only time anyone other than Alan helped me was when Andy Norman , via John Bicourt , found me someone who helped me with my back problems . |
| 3 | The reason Carol contacted me was that she was now frightened to go out of her house , even during the daytime . |
| 4 | Please God let me be doing real work . |
| 5 | There were scales I would hear in music and I used to think to myself , ‘ I need to learn that scale , ’ or , ‘ I need to learn how he got that effect using that scale with those chords , ’ and basically what Joe gave me was that sort of thinking . |
| 6 | • What your intense desire for Jim tells me is that you are a highly sexual person : one who has managed to heal herself after a difficult marriage and who 's now ready for a physical relationship . |
| 7 | So there I am in some terra incognita by the name of Stoke Newington , which Stuart assures me is the next district where house prices are due to display tumescence , but where for the moment there dwelleth men whose heads do grow beneath their shoulders . |
| 8 | ‘ One of the reasons for my downfall is that I am a rep for Taunton Cider , and one of the first things Yvonne told me was to keep off alcohol . ’ |
| 9 | In my babyhood , he had asked the great Australian centre Dave Brown to let me be photographed with an enormous stuffed lion Brown had brought back from a Kangaroo tour of Great Britain . |
| 10 | Oh it 's only Friday afternoon , I was waiting for Doris to phone me were n't I ? |
| 11 | It stood to reason that it must be someone 's job ; anything that Mellowes gave me was bound to be . |