Example sentences of "[to-vb] me [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | Perhaps Friday was still a wild man and would try to kill me in the night . |
| 32 | And if they somehow suspected that I was picking up something valuable , why would any of them try to kill me before the pick-up ? |
| 33 | The telephone rang at 8a.m. this morning to alert me to the fact that you were to be broadcasting on Radio 4 … 't was a friend of mine to whom I had mentioned your future plans … |
| 34 | On the day Sir Hubert arrived in Rangoon he sent for me to thank me for the way in which this delicate matter had been handled . |
| 35 | When I go skiing I want dozens of fast tows to whisk me to the top of runs and ensure I do n't have to queue for 20 minutes behind a junior racing team , trying to unclip each other 's bindings and seeing how far they can spit . |
| 36 | A temporary assistant lecturer 's post was available in my Department at U.C.L. Apparently , my Head of Department , , was happy to appoint me , but before the decision was made , he offered his new professorial colleague , , an opportunity to interview me for the job . |
| 37 | Lord knows what they say to her , but they must be on at her night and day , to get her into a state where she 's afraid to acknowledge me on the phone ! ’ |
| 38 | The King of this country ( which was called Lilliput ) had ordered his people to carry me to the capital city , about a kilometre away . |
| 39 | Once Crispin arrived , I would want to be out and about with him , so I worked till lunch-time , and was rewarded by reaching the half-way mark , and with a new idea to carry me through the next section of the story . |
| 40 | I fell down in a kind of madness , and they had to carry me from the room . |
| 41 | ‘ Apart from an occasional tendency to treat me like the ayah she had in India as a child , she 's the perfect landlady . ’ |
| 42 | ‘ You seem determined to drive me into the arms of easier women , Meredith . ’ |
| 43 | Kenneth is meeting me , to drive me to the Cromwell Hospital . |
| 44 | I asked Stephen — one of the two hapless fathers and himself reduced to a mulberry-eyed basket case — if he still had enough marbles to drive me to the station at Orvieto . |
| 45 | I might just as well ask him to drive me to the nearest station . |
| 46 | ‘ So I 'd like you to drive me in the pony and trap , just till I know where people live . ’ |
| 47 | I reported promptly , and his secretary appeared almost at once to conduct me to the presence . |
| 48 | He rose to conduct me round the TOM complex . |
| 49 | They hacked me in the ribs and then proceeded to batter me about the head . |
| 50 | Some girls I knew had arranged for their two penfriends to meet me at the Gare du Nord and , somehow , we recognised one another . |
| 51 | A talkative Bruce Willis dropped me outside the London flat fifteen minutes later ( you can assess the situation on the way upstairs ) , and Kenneth came down to meet me at the door . |
| 52 | The man was going to meet me at the bottom of Ber Street . |
| 53 | ‘ I persuaded her once or twice to meet me at the ruined tower . |
| 54 | Jenny was supposed to meet me at the airport . " |
| 55 | ‘ I thought my secretary told you to meet me at the house in Edinburgh ? |
| 56 | On Sunday , after leaving my suitcase with the hall porter who was to see that it was in the Land Rover to meet me after the shooting , I enjoyed brunch in the Gleneagles restaurant sitting at the same table as the Princess Royal . |
| 57 | She fixed her star-like eyes upon my face and startled me with the question , ‘ When are you going to meet me underneath the trees ? ’ |
| 58 | Admiral Paul Rowe , of Rotherham Starfleet Command , was waiting to meet me from the train . |
| 59 | ‘ I really can not expect you to accept me after the way in which I have behaved , and then was wicked enough to read your private book , and the cuttings are there , I knew that you would want them back , and I expect that you will wish to make a career in journalism , and why accept a poor doctor , no need to do that , you can always live on your father 's allowance and what a remarkable man he is , so like you , or earn your living by your pen … ’ |
| 60 | The bats just decided to smash me around the island , and for every bag of boundaries they hit they then made a mistake . |