Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] me [adv] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any excuse got me out of the office . |
| 2 | I was scarcely conscious but Pat helped me out of the machine and as the dinghy had n't emerged after the ditching we had to swim about 250 yards to the beach . |
| 3 | One punter refers to a typically fateful day : 1 August 1988 - " … the day I returned from a holiday abroad , Harvard telephoned me out of the blue ( 8th April 1986 ) , and a chap who sounded like an enthusiastic young cockney told me how wonderful Towerbell was and that it was going places with top stars in tow ! " |
| 4 | The range of everyday articles on the shelves reminded me abruptly of things at home , and I found myself thinking of my last night before leaving London . |
| 5 | Barry might well be back any second to get me out of this . ’ |
| 6 | Because reading her writings startled me out of my narrow conception of her talent . |
| 7 | On this occasion , M. Dupont followed me out of the door . |
| 8 | A post in Italy , the nature of which I never fully learnt , save that it would be of sufficient importance to take me out of uniform if I were in it , fell through with Italy 's declaration of war . |
| 9 | The truth is , she does not seem to wish to see me and will think of every excuse to keep me out of her presence . |
| 10 | When Peter the Great gave up the first Russian fleet in southern waters after being disastrously defeated by the Turks in 1711 , he said that " The Lord God drove me out of this place , like Adam out of paradise " . |
| 11 | My decision early on to build site-specific works in steel took me out of the traditional studio . |
| 12 | Thereafter , the coastal scenery reminded me increasingly of lowland Scotland , fields and hedges lying close to the shore . |
| 13 | There were days when the world was shrouded in a mist and I would feign headaches and period pains to get me out of awkward situations such as reading in class . |
| 14 | I thought the dead whiteness of the dress made me more of a corpse than a bride but had n't enough energy to infuriate my mother by telling her so . |
| 15 | And he tells him the story and he goes and the man threw me out of the taxi . |
| 16 | Her voice brought me out of my daydream . |
| 17 | My illness kept me out of action for a fortnight so it was fully three weeks after the demise of my job before I finally went down to my local Department of Employment offices and ‘ signed on ’ . |
| 18 | We can both feel the strain plucking at the atmosphere , so when I say I 'll return the keys to the landlord she gives me his address to get me out of the way . |
| 19 | The Fat Controller 's voice sluiced me out of my wine haze . |
| 20 | I panned the view , looking for visual stimulation to jerk me out of my maudlin stupor . |
| 21 | P.S. Tell me more of the brother and sister of sweet Shelley . |
| 22 | And it takes a crummy gumshoe to get me out of trouble . ’ |
| 23 | A horrendous gash to my left elbow , and severe bruising on the hip put me out of the races , and I appreciated the advantages of the safety bike that quickly replaced the penny-farthing ! |
| 24 | You like P E , I do n't wan na do it Zena will you write me a letter to get me out of it ? |
| 25 | Being in neither carpet nor the RAF left me out of the conversation , until the tea trolley came round . |
| 26 | A Minister of the Crown told me once of being present at a Cabinet committee meeting when she disagreed with her then chancellor , Nigel Lawson , and sensed that the rest of those present were also against her . |
| 27 | Makes me look a right cunt dragging me out of the shop let alone . |
| 28 | I want you and the company to find some way to get me out of this mess I 've been landed in . |
| 29 | My mother got me out of the room . |
| 30 | With a peremptory jerk of her head , and a wordless signal of command , Rainbow 's dancing partner orders me out of my subject and into the nearest dark comer . |