Example sentences of "[noun prp] [conj] [verb] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | Brittain is always up with the lark and it was a nice piece of work that Needle Gun did under Roberts on the Side Hill woodchip gallops early on Tuesday that makes me select him for the Laburnum Stakes . |
| 2 | But it was actually hearing Duane Allman that made me want to go for a powerful kind of electric sound . |
| 3 | My father paid for my digs in Paddington and gave me a pound a week pocket money , together with what he called ‘ travelling expenses ’ for my regular visit home ( home and a good , square meal ) , and to spend some time with Clare who was fifteen and slowly , very slowly , improving . |
| 4 | But every year , and often more than once , he made the pilgrimage to Kidlington in Oxfordshire and on one of those visits ( I can not have been more than eight years old ) took me to Thame and showed me his name on the board as head boy . |
| 5 | ‘ You 're the fourteenth person who 's worked out I 'm staying with Lucy and phoned me up with crazy stories about Liam . |
| 6 | If you 've any sense you 'll give me a ride to Shipton and put me on a train , then go back to your farm and forget all about me . ’ |
| 7 | Zak came up to me with Donna and offered me a lift back to the city in their bus , and at that exact moment I saw not Bill Baudelaire himself but someone who might go among the owners , where Tommy could n't . |
| 8 | But in a few days she will leave England and follow me to Argentina . |
| 9 | Bruce took me to Millwall and offered me a contract , but I did n't fancy living in London . |
| 10 | Say you got me to Ireland and dropped me off , then got shot down by a British night-fighter off the French coast on your way back . |
| 11 | And he said he did n't know that , that he would get hold of Sen and ring me first thing , thing in the morning er , to tell me why Sen has n't paid . |
| 12 | Love Jim and hate me . |
| 13 | A middle-aged man picked me up on the M4 near Swindon and offered me a lift to London , which was very convenient . |
| 14 | No , it 's called a cork , cork , you feel it Victoria and tell me what do you think , you think that 's gon na sink or do you think it 's gon na float ? |
| 15 | Their president , Gordon Stulberg , became president of Twentieth Century-Fox and asked me to direct The Poseidon Adventure , which became the company 's most profitable film . |
| 16 | Frustrated but secretly delighted that I had maybe caught him out with shoddy workmanship until an old fellow from Bernera stopped to give me a lift on the way past Carlaway and showed me the right ones , just before the main stones of Callanish . |
| 17 | Above all it was the thought of Lily that tortured me I had promised to write every day . |
| 18 | Ian is OK — friendly and cheerful — but there 's something about Robert that makes me want to fight him all the time . ’ |
| 19 | My brother holds our castle for Matilda and sent me here to serve her . |
| 20 | ‘ They 're divorced now , apparently , and Paul 's married to someone else , but at the time he was going to divorce Sonia and marry me . |
| 21 | ‘ He happened to be going to Bristol and drove me in . |
| 22 | And Merson revealed : ‘ The boss called me in on Monday and told me that it would be best if I played in the reserves on Tuesday rather than travel with the squad to Blackburn . |
| 23 | Any of my old school friends in Wallingford that know me er well they 'll just never believe that I can run 26 miles because I do n't know if when you were at school , but when er when we used to have a cross-country run I was the one at the back and usually the P E instructor used to go round and whack us with a slipper , you know the slow ones and I was unfortunately one of those , but er now I 've been running with the Bicester Road Runners for what 2 years , er half , I 've done a few half marathons , nothing anywhere near 26 miles , I 've , my furthest run until yesterday was 16 miles , and yesterday , injured , with a bandage round my knee , I managed 18 miles , and I 'm pleased to say it 's still holding out and I 'm quietly confident that I 'm going to complete this , and like I say , if I can er well , just get the local businesses in Bicester interested and to support me , I say however small , just a , you know , if they , a penny a mile from just a few of the businesses in Bicester and , well , the Bible school could have , you know , a few pounds coming to them , which I 'm sure they 'd be , you know , greatly received . |
| 24 | It was a reunion at Bath that made me decide . |
| 25 | Some of the sound tests were done by a computer and luckily I had access to a computer from my dealer in Bath that enabled me to set the sound up perfectly . |
| 26 | I think it was Lynne that told me . |
| 27 | The boss went to Calgary and gave me the day off . ’ |
| 28 | Carel Weight visited Wimbledon and encouraged me to try for the Royal College . |
| 29 | ‘ I want yow and Frankie ter pay yer Granny a visit every Sunday and let me know how she is . |
| 30 | When in May , six months later , he came to Paris and took me to the Tour d'Argent for lunch , he passed me an envelope . |