Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] [verb] me [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the next day , afore I 'd gotten fettled up — for indeed , miss , I 'd no heart to sweeping an' fettling , an' washing pots ; so I sat me down i' th' muck — who should come in but Maister Weston ! |
| 2 | Jackson , who described the action as an ‘ artistic ’ response to racism , said that the painting-How Ya Like Me Now ? by David Hammons-should be put back on display together with the sledge-hammer . |
| 3 | Suddenly she pushed me away . |
| 4 | And she 'd already been with me for several years before we met , so you felt that perhaps she knew me better than you did , and you hated that . ’ |
| 5 | You do n't say why in your book , so perhaps you tell me now . ’ |
| 6 | Perhaps you think me unduly harsh to express these things so openly . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'd assume the trapsetter had been a guest at Sam Yaeger 's boatyard party , ’ I said , ‘ only you warned me never to assume . ’ |
| 8 | So she caught me up and turned me round , feeling my load from top to bottom and every side . |
| 9 | Honest to God , that 's how much they started me off on . |
| 10 | That second time I went in they left me there for two hours , and I was really cracking up . |
| 11 | So they took me on and the to cut all the roads from Kirkland right to West Mainland right out into Kirkwall and . |
| 12 | So I was close by and so they sent me in so the way I , I got dressed up in the minister 's cassock , and I got in revised the books of Genesis , like through and I get genned up to be a minister and I took in a bible and er well anyway I killed five men and they got out alive . |
| 13 | But no I think er they thought I could speak English better than some of them themselves so they sent me off to English universities or wherever to put across our problems . |
| 14 | So they knock me down and I shake my head and I get up . |
| 15 | So they knock me down … |
| 16 | Suddenly it struck me just how much protection my past had given me , particularly the university lecturer bit of it . |
| 17 | Now we had n't rehearsed this so I turned to go off , only he called me back . |
| 18 | Perhaps it made me too outspoken . |
| 19 | Perhaps he fancies me like so he still did n't take no notice . |
| 20 | Obviously it affected me personally because my father 's condition was similar for the last fourteen years of his life . |
| 21 | It 's quite funny really because er I used to go off I had an agreement with the headmaster at that particular time and he 'd h I 'd been a full time teacher with him , and he needed somebody desperately , that was the only reason obviously he wanted me back , and er I said Well look I can come back but I ca n't get back in order to go to the assembly at first . |
| 22 | So he sent me away with exactly that assurance that I was longing to hear . |
| 23 | So he took me back to his place and pulled his pants down and took out this big bundle with the works in it , like . |
| 24 | So he called me up and asked me if I wanted to play it , which was incredibly flattering because I 'd been a fan of his for such a long time . |
| 25 | So he makes me falsely grateful . |
| 26 | When he discovered I could play the piano , whenever we were off together he dragged me down to one of the older lecture rooms in the Medical School basement that happened to possess a piano , to thump out the background beat . |
| 27 | Just ye tell me now , have ye seen that old wooden ship down there in the ice , or no , ? ’ |
| 28 | Just you ask me where such and such is and I can place it … just like that ! ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I do n't want to spend my time with you , any more than you want me at your side , so the sooner you tell me where Garry is , the sooner we can part company . |
| 30 | Finally they told me where they had been and how they had been ushered into a sort of waiting room by the proprietress , who had endeavoured to make them feel at ease by offering them marrons glacés . |