Example sentences of "[to-vb] me [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maxine came to see me again the following week and we began the follow-up treatment , along the lines of those which you will find detailed in the ‘ case histories ’ sections of this book . |
| 2 | You got to meet me up the railway . |
| 3 | ‘ After that he came to visit me almost every evening . |
| 4 | Robyn , perhaps you 'd like to help me clear the dishes , ’ he instructed , giving her a warning glance . |
| 5 | ‘ I thank God ! ’ said Edward Rochester , ‘ and ask Him to help me live a better life in future ! ’ |
| 6 | The oil lamp beside his bed had been extinguished , and when I saw my father glance disapprovingly at the lamp I had brought to guide me up the rickety staircase , I quickly lowered the wick . |
| 7 | I still wanted to see more of the world , and as he was offering to give me double the usual pay , I managed to persuade my wife to let me go . |
| 8 | ‘ Candy , there must be three hundred people in the club tonight — would you care to give me just the faintest inkling who you 're talking about ? ’ |
| 9 | He was trying to put me off the scent , perhaps , trying to explain , trying to seem reasonable . |
| 10 | ‘ So why has Madge Grimsilk never offered to run me up a quick ball-dress on the wardrobe sewing machine ? ’ |
| 11 | Great-aunts were sometimes significant : a Scots farmer 's old sister , ‘ very straightlaced … you sat like a mouse ; ’ or the great-aunt of a Portsmouth docker 's daughter , ‘ an old , old lady ’ , who liked to celebrate receiving her weekly pension — ‘ Every weekend , pension day , she had a wee brown jug and she used to send me up the beer shop to get half pint o'stout . |
| 12 | It started to suck me up the face . |
| 13 | ‘ Even though Father always manages to rub me up the wrong way . |
| 14 | Eventually my husband and the house officer managed ( with great determination and much shouting ) to persuade him that if it was absolutely necessary to examine me internally the house officer would do so . |
| 15 | ‘ I think Hasan was about to throw me down the cliffs out of his cave ! ’ |
| 16 | I asked her to bring me up a pot of tea , and when she had gone , inspected the room further . |
| 17 | I asked Miss Matlock to bring me up a thermos of soup and a plate of smoked salmon sandwiches at six o'clock . |
| 18 | I picked up a number 8 brush and with bluey brown paint I drew the windows , and used a rough line to tell me where the plant at the front was . |
| 19 | ‘ Please to tell me why the house is rumbling and shaking . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ One day you are going to tell me just a little bit more of this experience of yours . ’ |