Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] me [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You got to meet me up the railway . |
| 2 | ‘ The guy tried to trip me up , so I told him what I thought . |
| 3 | Perry tried to kill me off — as if one could kill an abstraction , a measurement . |
| 4 | You tried to catch me out there did n't you ? |
| 5 | I went over to Sheridan to ask him to be quiet and he grabbed my wrist and tried to pull me on to his lap , and I overbalanced and fell and hit the table hard where he was sitting , and I caught the cloth somehow and pulled it with me and everything on it landed on the floor . |
| 6 | Then she tried to talk me out of leaving — laid on the flattery with a trowel . ’ |
| 7 | I had rehearsed all the routine for the South America job , then I just got a bit panicky ; the captain tried to talk me back into it . |
| 8 | Er even the headmaster said , he tried to put me off . |
| 9 | She , on her side , had always the sisterly feeling of wanting to ‘ thump ’ anyone who exploited me or tried to do me down . |
| 10 | ‘ Our physio Jim Walker was great for me , tried to cheer me up by explaining that Mark Hughes had the same problem when he returned to Manchester United from Barcelona . |
| 11 | ‘ Our physio Jim Walker was great for me , tried to cheer me up by explaining that Mark Hughes had the same problem when he returned to Manchester United from Barcelona . |
| 12 | ‘ She tried kicking me out of the classroom . |
| 13 | Then I found a place that was clearly headlined as a singles " bar , and no one tried to keep me out Now I 'd read about these VD workshops in Scum and Miasma , both of which adopted a markedly high-handed line . |
| 14 | ‘ In the cruel manner in which she tried to prise me out of my home . ’ |
| 15 | They tried to lift me out of my depression . |
| 16 | ‘ I have always been determined and I think that helped to get me through . ’ |
| 17 | Yeah , because you tried to beat me up behind Mrs ! |
| 18 | Frank tried to fob me off . |
| 19 | ‘ He is a big man , a foot taller than me , and he tried to push me back and kissed me . |
| 20 | But they just tried to push me out . |
| 21 | Once when I was leaving for Europe , he came to see me off at the airport , bringing a parting gift . |
| 22 | Oddly enough , one of Pierre Salinger 's researchers , Linda Mack , while trying to check me out , had talked to another of their staffers , David Mills — the former Newsweek photographer who 'd looked me up on Cyprus in 1987 and sold some pictures to Hurley . |
| 23 | I 'd only been there about five minutes when they came to escort me off down to Bleak House , where I was stripped naked and given a blanket and put into a cell . |
| 24 | Guess what they 'd seen me in ? |
| 25 | Said he 'd bailed me out once and he would n't do so again , I could make my own way . |
| 26 | She came to pick me up . |
| 27 | ‘ So I went back to Alassio and at the end of the month Constanza came to pick me up and to tell her mother . |
| 28 | And er I got involved on national registration and er , on one occasion , we were working , we 'd got a deadline and we were working through the weekend , and my wife came to pick me up at what she thought was a reasonable time , at one o'clock on Saturday , found she was given a cup of tea and set to work , and we finished , going home about midnight . . |
| 29 | Graham , when he came to pick me up , would stand back and burst into song , like that man in " Gigi " : " Why , you 've been growing up before my very eyes ! " |
| 30 | I was looking for then features ed James Brown , who 'd phoned me up on the strength of Issue One of my fanzine This Is This ( which went on to sell in excess of 30 copies to my friends and family ) . |