Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [verb] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | One more story about O : he told me ( it was as if he was trying to explain the oddity of his lovemaking to me , as if he was trying to account for or apologise for the way he 'd treated me , or perhaps to reassure me concerning the effect he 'd had on me , I do n't know ) , in the morning he told me that there was one man , this had been just a couple of years previously , there was one man who had summoned him to his bedside to be counted amongst a farewell gathering of lovers , dear friends and great passions . |
| 2 | Bernard more or less told me . |
| 3 | They did not seem pleased to see me , in fact they more or less ignored me , but I hardly noticed their rudeness . |
| 4 | He refused to come downstairs into the cellar but more or less instructed me to return to Oakington at once , as the Commander-in-Chief wanted to speak to me . |
| 5 | ‘ Open it , or so help me , I 'll — ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Get out or so help me , I 'll yell so loud that I 'll wake the whole house ! |
| 7 | Give it to me , Lori , or so help me I will go to the police and let you stew in your own juice . ’ |
| 8 | Another pull for ten minutes or so brought me up on to the summit , where I sat down to have my lunch . |
| 9 | ‘ Or just to insult me ? ’ |
| 10 | As I had been on the medical side since he came back , this was the first time he had spoken to me , or probably seen me . |
| 11 | I am almost tempted to produce some enormous prize for any bookseller who can furnish me with a list of the shortlisted titles , or even let me know if they have the winning title in stock : I feel confident that I would have no takers . |
| 12 | I could see him thumb through several papers before returning to the counter with a single sheet ; he made no attempt to invite me in or even to offer me a chair . |
| 13 | Or maybe use me as the basis for tissue culture , body-bank , whatever . ’ |
| 14 | Curiously it was the less forward-looking G major Sonata which in the faster figuration of its flanking movements once or twice had me longing for the greater clarity of a modern grand — likewise its greater ability to sing in the slow movement . |
| 15 | ‘ I persuaded her once or twice to meet me at the ruined tower . |
| 16 | He would make me look at pictures and then reproduce them with coloured pencils , or else ask me to rotate a figure mentally a certain number of degrees around a given perpendicular before attempting to redraw it . |
| 17 | I ai n't spoke to John today , he 's been asleep or else ignoring me ! |
| 18 | and eventually hauled me aboard as we set off for Blackpool . |
| 19 | Anyway , he had done it very quietly and gently-not to wake me , I suppose … ’ |
| 20 | I was terrified that if I criticized him he would take offence and leave me , if not permanently , then for a few days , without giving me a sign of life , and so leaving me in anguish . |
| 21 | Perhaps that was one of the reasons which prompted my father to teach me to read , and so divert me from my inexorable pursuit of my mother . |
| 22 | She had difficulty with the perspective and so persuaded me to help her sort it out . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | He used to get bored driving around looking for locations alone and so bribed me to go with him by buying me a camera . |
| 25 | He used to get bored driving around looking for locations alone and so bribed me to go with him by buying me a camera . |
| 26 | The predominantly transparent colours of the gouache gave my washes a strong tint , and so allowed me to apply the broad washed demanded by a large watercolour . |
| 27 | I even hoped the Germans would overrun our positions and so allow me to give myself up as a prisoner . |
| 28 | ‘ You 've ruined my Gnome costume and perhaps lost me a lovely bicycle . ’ |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | ‘ At first he would get angry and only push me around . |