Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] [noun] [verb] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Someone in television told me he lived in an ordinary flat by the Park , with nothing but a secret service man lurking in the lobby . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ The problems of distribution and the various changes that we had to make to establish ourselves in Scotland made me think that if I just swung the compass I 'd land up in Paris . ’ |
| 3 | Everything that reminds me of school makes me nervous . ’ |
| 4 | My local office has plenty of leaflets telling me about wonderful things like savings schemes and child benefit , but rarely stocks the mysterious forms that are supposed to accompany them . |
| 5 | Being reasonably wealthy and not a total antidote to the opposite sex , ’ he said with a wry grin , ‘ I knew there were plenty of women to make me forget . |
| 6 | He put me on a stretcher , had me carried about half a mile across fields to an ambulance , which in turn took me down to the local advanced dressing station . |
| 7 | ‘ The trouble is that I know that all the time he 's only trying to ingratiate himself in order to get me to agree to a merger . |
| 8 | Why did Mr Briggs write to you in order to find me ? ’ |
| 9 | Do you in fact wish me to read the evidence in this case ? you have decided that have you ? |
| 10 | I could have stayed in London of course , eating my heart out for you as I have done ever since you put your head down on to your bread and butter here in this room and burst into tears ; but the combination of Christmas , and not having seen you in months drove me to a railway station and this morgue of a house . |
| 11 | " Are you at liberty to tell me anything about your case , sir ? " |
| 12 | Really what we 're doing after are they prepared to talk about it if when you by consent let me carry on talking when you do n't have a leading question . |
| 13 | ‘ Not at all , ’ said Sally-Anne , ‘ and before you plead for me with Matey let me tell you that you will have your tea salted and your eggs sugared every breakfast if you do any such thing . |
| 14 | ‘ Taking them into Europe gave me more satisfaction than anything I 've done in my career , ’ he said . |
| 15 | Her Spanish is very good , but she speaks to me in English to help me learn it . ’ |
| 16 | You had come back to me in order to show me your poems : there was no one else to whom you could show them . |
| 17 | I 'm told it 's nothing personal ( it 's never anything personal in racing — a fellow who had just put me through the wing at Naas visited me in hospital to tell me it was nothing personal ) , but the end result is the same . |
| 18 | I went to the doctor at seventeen , just about to be married and he put me on Librium to calm me down . |
| 19 | She 's ringing me on Wednesday to tell me when she 's gon na collect them . |
| 20 | ‘ Planned it for years to give me pleasure in my retirement and now it 's just getting into a mess . |
| 21 | You say that I have the endurance — you say it in order to give me strength . |
| 22 | This was eventually made doubly plain when each member of my crew took it in turn to brief me on his particular duties , and I in turn had to perform in his position . |
| 23 | A dear friend of mine from Middlesbrough brought me a dog which turned out to have distemper , and he died . |
| 24 | If Hyde returns while I am writing this confession , he will tear it to pieces to annoy me . |
| 25 | Cos did n't you phone me at Lillycups to tell me ? |
| 26 | ‘ I saw myself as others saw me … and it was horrible . ’ |
| 27 | What with Anna running me up and down the countryside . |
| 28 | What on earth made me imagine for even one second that I would have enough strength to confront Luke ? |
| 29 | ‘ I 've had lots of girlfriends leave me because of it . |