Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] me [prep] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | You put me in an embarrassing position . ’ |
| 2 | You strike me as an intelligent young woman and I refuse to believe that you were silly enough to go to Mr Riddle with such proposals unless you were in a position to either bribe or threaten him . ’ |
| 3 | You make me say things which should remain unsaid , you pressure me on an emotional level which I find difficult to control . |
| 4 | If you treat me like an ox to be bargained for , I should be the more careful not to annoy you . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | They put me in an isolated pit for the first few weeks . |
| 7 | When I was running away they put me in an approved school for girls run by nuns . |
| 8 | You know , I had to say something clever — to win her , to set me apart , to make her see me as an individual — but wit is normally aggressive . |