Example sentences of "[v-ing] me [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Martin 's phoning me at eight o'clock . |
| 2 | He buggered me for the first time that night , reaching round and putting his hand over my mouth , tearing me in two . |
| 3 | An' wait , ’ she muttered irritably , pushing me to one side . |
| 4 | They 're paying me for forty hours . |
| 5 | We walked up the deserted street with me breathing deeply and Jamie holding me by one elbow . |
| 6 | I did n't suffer from morning sickness but I 've become an insomniac over the months and had the good fortune ( or so they tell me ) to have a healthy foetus that started kicking me at thirteen weeks . |
| 7 | Later on in my undergraduate career I was lucky enough to be given some teaching by Dr Douglas Ross , consultant in Glasgow , and had personal experience of the efficacy of homoeopathy when he cured the gingivitis ( inflammation of the gums ) which had been plaguing me for three weeks with a homoeopathic preparation of mercury . |
| 8 | Thank you for providing me with two very appropriate slides of new housing in Ceredigion . |
| 9 | He was always taking me to one side , telling me what I should and should n't do . |
| 10 | If I make a promise to you in return for your supplying me with three , quite useless , chocolate wrappers , which I will instantly throw away , there is a perfectly good contract provided that the promise was seriously intended ( below , p. 205 ) . |
| 11 | I wondered what Connie Fraser thought about living in a place like that , and whether she was watching me from one of the dozens of balcony windows that faced the front . |
| 12 | We both wobbled then , through hours of stones and velvet dusk to the hut , where Sal went straight to bed , leaving me with two soups , two teas and a bottle of wine to deal with . |
| 13 | they expect me to pay another three hundred pounds a month out of seven hundred and twenty pounds net income , leaving me with twenty pounds a month to live on . |