Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] me [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd already stabbed me in the heart several times before that with other ladies , but at least this time , there was a lady that I liked immensely . |
| 2 | but he 'd just told me about the housing with the car and everything . |
| 3 | He had already told me on the Friday at the training session , and in front of about 20 of the lads , that I was n't in the team . |
| 4 | I began to tremble violently and would have fainted , had he not grabbed me by the elbow and guided me to a low wall , where I slumped down . |
| 5 | It was going to be a long night , as I also had to finish an already over-due essay on Swedish expansion in the seventeenth century ( it would have to be a goodish one , too ; an earlier remark — made in an unguarded moment during a methodically boring tutorial — ascribing Swedish territorial gains in the Baltic to the invention of the Smorgasbord with its take-what-you-want ethic , had not endeared me to the professor concerned ; nor had my subsequent discourse on the innate frivolity of the Swedes , despite what I thought was the irrefutable argument that no nation capable of giving a Peace Prize to Henry Kissinger could possibly be accused of lacking a sense of humour . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | A funny thing for a gyno to say out of the blue — and the first time he 's ever looked me in the eye . |
| 8 | Racks and Torments ! dost think , Child , that my Limbs were made for leaping of Ditches , and clambring over Stiles ; or that my Parents wisely foreseeing my future Happiness in Country-pleasures , had early instructed me in the rural Accomplishments of drinking fat Ale , playing at Whisk , and smoaking Tobacco with my Husband ; or of spreading of Plaisters , brewing of Diet-drinks , and stilling Rosemary-Water with the good old Gentlewoman , my Mother-in-Law … . |
| 9 | Needless to say , no one had ever told me about the pain , and I became convinced that something was wrong with me , but I was too embarrassed to confess as much to anyone . |
| 10 | Béroff 's Vingt Regards was the set I first came to know well ( I vividly remember receiving it as a Christmas present the year it was first released ) and it has always struck me as the finest of all the recorded versions . |
| 11 | What 's really moved me over the last three or four years , as AIDS has become a major threat in this country , and especially since spring 1985 with the rising public hysteria about it , is that it 's brought out tremendous reserves of strength in lesbians and gay men which show the importance of the achievements of the previous fifteen years . |
| 12 | ‘ So , you 've really got me in the shit now , have n't you ? |
| 13 | What has frankly surprised me about the last decade is the way in which social scientists who make no claim to a Christian profession have been talking openly about the relevance of religious values to our current economic problems in the Western world . |
| 14 | The only reason I was here was because Joyce , who was to spend the first two days at the Centre with me , had continuously reminded me on the journey that the decision to go to Bristol had been mine and mine alone . |
| 15 | ‘ Ah , well , ’ his lordship said , ‘ you have n't shot me in the kneecaps yet . ’ |
| 16 | You have n't seen me since the bad time with the lawyers . ’ |
| 17 | It has n't prepared me for the outside world ; all it 's done is given me an awareness of myself . |
| 18 | There were a few nasty expletives in the air and the thought that , if they had n't told me about the dyke , what might I encounter later on ? |
| 19 | I 'd been hurt — the man I thought loved me had not only jilted me and stolen my money , but admitted that he had n't wanted me in the first place . |
| 20 | I demure about continuing and if our support had n't forced me towards the river then the watching crowd would have done so . |
| 21 | I want you and I believe you owe me , but wanting you has n't unbalanced me to the extent you seem to believe . |
| 22 | I could n't help smiling at that ; she still had n't quite forgiven me for the fact that her remedy had n't been effective . |
| 23 | The spectacle of modern investment markets has sometimes moved me towards the conclusion that to make the purchase of an investment permanent and indissoluble , like a marriage … might … force the investor to direct his mind to the long-term prospects , and to those only . |
| 24 | Your good influence and help has sometimes drawn me from the enwrapping pleasure of scenes which before held me alone with them … |
| 25 | Our family were constant visitors , of course , and many friends — the same , dear kind people who had so readily transported me to the hospital for the nightly visiting . |
| 26 | That body has not yet contacted me about the Bill although the Association of Railway Preservation Societies and David Morgan thereof certainly have . |
| 27 | The lady had cordially assured me at the outset that I was free " to party with anybody I liked the look of " ( this , except for the half-ounce bikini she wore , being her only hint that what we were sitting in was n't a beauty parlour or seminar room but actually a brothel . |
| 28 | The realisation rips through me : my little act of derring-do has truly landed me in the shit . |
| 29 | Let me ask you about one particular artist , whose name has actually escaped me at the moment |
| 30 | Erm , well I do n't know Wendy , I 'll have to go into that when I , I do n't think they have , I do n't know that they have charged me for , well they 've certainly charged me for the new wiring . |