Example sentences of "[noun] [be] [verb] me [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sharp Samson are paying me more , not as much as I was offered by the others , but I 'm satisfied because more money does n't mean I 'll be faster or happier . |
| 2 | And the supporters been treating me well , the promotion been treating me well , so obviously I never really wanted to move but we had a few problems with the negotiating with the contract and the financial terms was n't quite right so but I 'm glad to say we 've got it right now and you know we both sort of gave a bit and we came to a settlement er which I 'm very pleased about . |
| 3 | Well unfortunately my girlfriend is dragging me off to Rhodes for a week so I 'll miss the Norwich , Scouse and Oldham game . |
| 4 | Tell you the truth , Johnny , this deal is getting me down . |
| 5 | The isolation is getting me down a bit — I have had to seek to be pretty resilient spiritually with George in , and so the extra resources are pretty deplete because of that . |
| 6 | A car is picking me up at 1.30 to take me to Thames T.V. to be made up as a Chinese coolie . |
| 7 | Scamp turned to reach down into one of the boxes of groceries that were scattered over the floor but I did n't see what he was after as Nevil was lifting me up by the shoulders . |
| 8 | ‘ Maire was telling me how much she liked the party , Mother . |
| 9 | And it was getting dragged back and the engine was going like mad trying to push it along and the wind was pushing me back , and I was thinking am I going forwards or backward here ? |
| 10 | The wind was driving me further out to sea and my boat began to fill with water . |
| 11 | Yeah Dot was telling me how erm they had somebody with th erm similar problem but more pronounced |
| 12 | In fact , ’ she went on when she could see that he did n't seem overly impressed , ‘ in fact , my parents are expecting me home today . ’ |
| 13 | Since then , this deserted corner of King 's Reach Tower has been my spiritual home , but I gradually overcame the contemptuous disdain which is heaped on all outsiders and now , finally , I feel the natives are accepting me as one of their own . |
| 14 | By the time the pub had filled enough so that the punters were giving me dirty looks for taking up so much room , I felt I had discovered enough to put two and two together and make five if not six . |
| 15 | I had it yesterday and I came here and Karen was hurrying me up and I must have dropped it somewhere . |
| 16 | ’ I do n't recall you being so keen to leave while your lover-boy was knocking me around in Fif 's last night ’ . |
| 17 | Glen 's picking me up at half six , yeah |
| 18 | So the school 's first job was to cut me down to normal proportions — which they did . |
| 19 | As I got closer to the raised platform at the far end of the church , it was as if the sound was pushing me forward . |
| 20 | I did n't know whether my imagination was leading me astray when you seemed to be implying something like that . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ All these chores are making me so hungry that it is , as I said before , only fair that you feed me properly in order to keep me going . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ If firms were to ring me up , I 'd give them some jolly good advice , ’ she adds … |
| 23 | The DHSS were playing me up over the removal grant , so one of my sons went up to the house to see if there were any letters — everything had been smashed , crocks were smashed and the beds were slashed . |
| 24 | It 's my , it 's my birthday Monday and I 'm just , my wife 's taking me really ? |
| 25 | ‘ What you are saying is that I am not so much searching for Harry , rather , Harry is winding me in , like a fish on a line — ’ |
| 26 | And your witless behaviour is causing me more trouble in the end . |
| 27 | The problem is , as a man , how do I approach people and say , ‘ Look my wife is beating me up . ’ |
| 28 | But this year an even more offensive marketing ploy is keeping me away from my Christmas shopping . |
| 29 | Old Red was studying me clinically . |
| 30 | Some time later , my headache had receded , my costume was discarded and my bunk was clasping me as tenderly as a mother 's arms . |