Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] me [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before I left Ruritania , Princess Flavia asked to see me again , and Fritz took me to her . |
| 2 | You got to meet me up the railway . |
| 3 | Some of them tried to make amends for their own earlier contribution to this state of affairs and moved to include me more fully in the life of the school — a few even started to invite me back home for meals and things . |
| 4 | ‘ The guy tried to trip me up , so I told him what I thought . |
| 5 | Perry tried to kill me off — as if one could kill an abstraction , a measurement . |
| 6 | You tried to catch me out there did n't you ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Could it have been one of the footpads who tried to ambush me earlier that day ? |
| 9 | Then she tried to talk me out of leaving — laid on the flattery with a trowel . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | But Posi promised to lower me slowly , to raise minimal dist from where the beam hit the ground . |
| 12 | Er even the headmaster said , he tried to put me off . |
| 13 | She , on her side , had always the sisterly feeling of wanting to ‘ thump ’ anyone who exploited me or tried to do me down . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | She ran out and tried to send me away but I pretended Sabine was expecting me , so she took me to the studio . |
| 18 | ‘ In the cruel manner in which she tried to prise me out of my home . ’ |
| 19 | He … he tried to rape me once … ’ |
| 20 | They tried to lift me out of my depression . |
| 21 | You tried to convince me not to involve the police . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I have always been determined and I think that helped to get me through . ’ |
| 23 | Yeah , because you tried to beat me up behind Mrs ! |
| 24 | Frank tried to fob me off . |
| 25 | When they tried to take me away he explained , politely , that he was staying with me . |
| 26 | He tried to touch me once — you know , down there . |
| 27 | ‘ He is a big man , a foot taller than me , and he tried to push me back and kissed me . |
| 28 | But they just tried to push me out . |
| 29 | One such moment was Thursday night , when a mini-cab firm quoted me the price of a fare home , and the driver ( after taking a circuitous route around London ) tried to charge me well over the odds . |
| 30 | ‘ Now , my dear , ’ she said to Cobalt , ‘ you promised to take me home . |