Example sentences of "[to-vb] me [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps there was someone behind me who was just about to hit me over the head . |
| 2 | ‘ Do n't worry … you can sleep alone — I can take a hint that I 'm not wanted without you having to hit me over the head with it , ’ he finished bitterly . |
| 3 | They were prepared to hit me on the head , were n't they ? ’ |
| 4 | For a moment , I thought he was going to hit me with the shoe ; then he dropped it on the floor and began to pull at my clothes . |
| 5 | Anyway today we had the scene where Matt had to hit me with the paddle sort of semi-accidentally . |
| 6 | If you want to hit me across the airport , I 'll understand , OK , but I 'm staying with Alejandro . |
| 7 | All the same I felt a twinge of unease as he came to greet me in the bar of the Atlantic Hotel in Hamburg , an admiral now and much older , hobbling a little and holding a stick . |
| 8 | Wilson 's Cabinet — jealous of a non-political and non-party intruder — had decided not to include me in the team . |
| 9 | I think Anna was pleased to see me despite the knowing looks from the other two , and none of them seemed to have heard about Salome , so I stayed tight-lipped . |
| 10 | I was on my way to Glen Nevis with enough gear to see me through the night . |
| 11 | ‘ I buy enough marmalade at local fayres to see me through the year . |
| 12 | Oh , and Frank wanted to see me about the car . |
| 13 | For myself , I wish to say to men that as long as they associate me with an idea of ‘ woman ’ drawn from the past , or suppose that a model for gender relations is to be found in that past , they have failed to see me for the person who I am , or to envisage what equality might mean . |
| 14 | I could tell Gillian and Stuart were n't thrilled to see me at the airport . |
| 15 | So er I thought a alright then , so I I went off like and I just heard erm and said , I went up to see her mother like and , I told her mother about it , like and that and erm her mother says different now , that she came round to see me at the time to tell , to give me a telling off like over her friend . |
| 16 | See , she came to see me on the bridge . ’ |
| 17 | I asked her to come to see me on the day after her arrival and at the hour of sunset , the best time for the wonderful view that I then had to offer her . |
| 18 | Jim is coming to see me on the fourth of May . |
| 19 | ‘ Did you , as a matter of interest , happen to see me on The Human Angle last week ? ’ |
| 20 | I said authenticity was one thing but did my devoted fans really want to see me on the big screen with spots a foot across all over my face ? |
| 21 | ‘ I hope you 're coming to see me on the first night , Georg . |
| 22 | So it was just My mother used to see me across the road with my shilling to pay for my pinny . |
| 23 | He came to see me after the performance — several times , in fact . ’ |
| 24 | Oddly enough , I did n't happen to be in my room again when Terry Wogan came to see me before the show on the second occasion . |
| 25 | Adventure Training put him in contact with me and after five days Bombardier Michael Goldsmith and a subaltern had come to see me from the Outer Hebrides with a view to offering an army vehicle . |
| 26 | I asked the governor whether I could have a visit in the probation department so that Karen did n't have to see me in the gym with everyone else and I could talk to her a bit more intimately . |
| 27 | All the crew liked and even obeyed Silver , and he was always pleased to see me in the kitchen , which he kept as clean as a new pin . |
| 28 | Camino came to see me in the bank and asked if the village girls would be prepared to collect food and take it on their bicycles to the prisoners . |
| 29 | He used to come to see me in the prison . |
| 30 | Reception rang through and said there was a lady waiting to see me in the foyer . |