Example sentences of "[vb base] i [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was so rattled I glanced round to make sure this was n't a signal for an army of bunnies like this Dobermann of a beast to come up from behind and tear me to shreds . |
| 2 | They trust me with bunches of keys and let me phone my sister . |
| 3 | ‘ When I said I was working with Michael Crawford , they said he would be a monster , eat me for breakfast , have me on toast and upstage me totally . |
| 4 | They all hate me of course . ’ |
| 5 | Er and she said I 'll ring you ag I said oh dear someone now coming to the door , she said , never mind I 'll ring you on Saturday , so I said alright and er and she lives at Wyndham , Norfolk , my husband 's niece and erm , you see , and then there 's the other one and she said , auntie you 're always so cheerful , I said , well I try to be cheerful because like everybody else I get a little depressed sometimes because , you see , I have no sisters and brothers , I have three elderly cousins who live away and who I , who I see , one was here a fortnight ago er er er my cousin and his wife er , you see , it will be on a Wednesday , a fortnight today , no Thursday , yes , you see , a fortnight ago and they said , we 'll come again an we 've always bought you a bunch of daffodils so we shall come again when the daffodils are and er and they bring me over bits and pieces because er she was a cook and they bring me something nice to eat |
| 6 | Griffin , to exemplify this , reports a signing sequence by Patterson 's Koko : ‘ Please milk please me like drink apple bottle ’ , and one from Nim , ‘ Give orange me eat orange give me eat orange give me you ’ ( 1984 : 200 ) . |
| 7 | Having read that I immediately repent me in dust and ashes for having committed a dreadful grammatical error . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's just that I doubt that your grandmother sent you after me with instructions to — to abduct me and drag me to Rome at any cost . ’ |
| 9 | I wo oh , I mean I with Chris if I tell her where to go I mean |
| 10 | If they send me to Rampton , what does that make me ? ’ ’ |
| 11 | Brom not Brompton Barracks , Barracks , and I saw him there first of all and then he told me they were going send me to Tidworth . |
| 12 | Well I , I no , I 'd never get anywhere local actually , just send me to Grimsby or somewhere like that , but no , I 've got , but Derbyshire , all of Derbyshire . |
| 13 | Send me to school soon , Mrs Reed . |
| 14 | ‘ Please send me by return the length of the holes at St Andrews as I intend to lay out a course on the common next weekend , ’ wrote another . |
| 15 | She did n't ask what my plans were , or press me for details of any other potentially embarrassing subject . |
| 16 | A3 v Framwellgate Moor & Pity Me at Edinburgh Park ; |
| 17 | Yeah he was to go through this morning to get my project , no say me in trouble , I 'm in deep , I do n't know , ooh er , I ca n't see so how we all today ? |
| 18 | Yeah he was to go through this morning to get my project , no say me in trouble , I 'm in deep , I do n't know , ooh er , I ca n't see so how we all today ? |
| 19 | In their generosity , or relief of getting out of the kitchen , they ply me with bag loads of organic vegetables . |
| 20 | So many people ply me with drinks in the D and F these days that I tend to remember them as I saw them , in a blur . |
| 21 | ‘ Purge me with hyssop and I shall be clean . ’ |
| 22 | Going back go David 's desire for forgiveness I want to look again at what he said in verse 7 of Psalm 51 ‘ Purge me with hyssop and I shall be clean . ’ |
| 23 | God forgive me for swearing ! |
| 24 | I 'll : be there , ’ said my brother , ‘ Expect me on Monday 's ferry , then . |
| 25 | ‘ It 's just that these kind of obsessive-compulsive personalities provide me with research fodder . |
| 26 | Peter , as you know , I 've taught this course , tutored some of the students in it , and I find it myself a very challenging and interesting course if only because the students are always unearthing new facts and figures about energy which catch me by surprise . |
| 27 | ‘ What are you trying to do , kill me with kindness ? ’ |
| 28 | Yeah , so he said well charge me for wheel balancing then or something no he said , we ca n't do that . |
| 29 | when I was sixteen because it 's then I started to get these free passes and I had a sister then who lived at Rye and I had never been across London so the next door neighbour came with me to see me across London er because I was so young you see and I said right as long as you show me across London I can come back alone , you see , and so I came back alone and I , that 's when I started , so from sixteen and er and as I say I went to Cambridge in the nineteen thirty one , it was the last day of well say nineteen thirty two , you see , and , and also in the twenties I was going on holiday alone and I went to once er to the Isle of Man and when I was er I , I sat next , well being by myself , you see , they put me in , to a little table near the wall . |
| 30 | COUNT ME IN LONGMAN 1982 49 pp |