Example sentences of "[vb infin] [prep] me [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mm yes , let's see what you can do for me first . |
| 2 | Er , I sorry , , just clearing my throat , er , I did , I did delegate if somebody put it on the end of somebody 's assignment , then I to it , but I tend to find I underestimate what people can do for me all the time , and do n't identify just how much those people can give me back , and I did , or I do have a tendency at times to give people like before , to hold on too much , try and do too much myself , and er , you ca n't do it that way in case . |
| 3 | It 's come to something , has n't it , when I ca n't speak in me own house now . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ She would n't speak to me last time I was in your home , ’ she complained . |
| 5 | You did not speak to me next morning , nor for the whole of the next day . |
| 6 | Taking responsibility would mean you would say , ‘ I felt upset when you did n't speak to me this morning . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ It does n't matter to me one way or the other . |
| 8 | ‘ There 's nothing Biff Thacker can do to me that will even touch what I get at home . ’ |
| 9 | Did n't even mind about me great big feet . ’ |
| 10 | Those tactics wo n't work with me any more , I know you too well . ’ |
| 11 | It did n't occur to me that criticism coming from an American of American business might be acceptable , but from someone like me , was much much harder to take . |
| 12 | Only then did it occur to me that , of course , my witticism would not be easily appreciated by someone who was not aware that it was gypsies who had passed by . |
| 13 | ‘ Do n't look at me that way , ’ she said , ‘ as if I 'd suddenly become senile . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ The arrangements are not yet concluded , you see , and — Why do you look at me that way , signorina ? |
| 15 | ‘ If I walked into a Catholic school they 'd all look at me funny and shout ‘ Proddy ! ’ |
| 16 | They do n't move for me any more and I ca n't whistle either . |
| 17 | Oh no you can sleep in the same tent I 've got my tent you can sleep with me poor sod , you go and sleep with them |
| 18 | A squadron commander would suggest to me that " old so-and-so is getting a bit teased-out and perhaps he should be rested " , or " it might be convenient if he did not return after his next leave " — these leaves were quite frequent , something like six or seven days every six or seven weeks . |
| 19 | And they 'll quote to me that inflation 's at two percent . |
| 20 | You ca n't shield from me any more . |
| 21 | I shall have with me two clerks , and , of course , yourself . |
| 22 | The diabetes can sometimes disappear if you lose weight and maybe that will happen to me one of these days as I 've lost quite a lot recently . |
| 23 | I think I 'll go on me own . ’ |
| 24 | She has a part of me inside her , and I know she will come for me some day . |
| 25 | ‘ And do you promise that if you need a shoulder to cry on , you 'll come to me first ? ’ |
| 26 | Mary Vorse pinpointed ‘ the time when old age finally claimed me ’ as the ‘ moment when my two boys were more thoughtful of me , when they did n't come to me any more with their perplexities . ’ |
| 27 | Any tapes that anybody can get to me this week would be very very good because I was saying er a few minutes ago erm I 'm intending to send whatever we 've got done tomorrow week . |
| 28 | ‘ My life does not belong to me any more , Miss Everdene , but to you . |
| 29 | they do n't belong to me either of them . |
| 30 | It does seem to me that philosophy is much more effective when combined with some ‘ first order ’ discipline , than when taught in isolation . |