Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] me [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ A week later I received a frantic letter from Valerie imploring me not to go through with it . |
| 2 | I can remember being asked to run the mile at school and my parents encouraging me not to stop ( try hard ) . |
| 3 | She says , ‘ How am I going to get round all these people phoning me up saying , ‘ Why am I not getting calls , it 's all your fault ’ , you know , all the rest of it ’ , when they have n't diverted their telephone to the right extension number . |
| 4 | I get people calling me up saying erm they 've got a memory call problem and er , I 've deleted a number of files off the disk , and the problem did n't go away . |
| 5 | ‘ My time was being taken up by people asking me either to find them a folly or a buyer for some extraordinary building , ’ says Gwyn . |
| 6 | Yet in the middle years of the Thatcher government , I recall Sir Geoffrey Howe telling me how impressed he was by the number of letters he was receiving , especially from young people , about the crisis in the third world . |
| 7 | We are well and have no worries being happy together and not in need William leaving me better provided for than ever I had expected . |
| 8 | Then I remembered Stephen Roskill telling me not to believe a word Mountbatten said or claimed unless it was corroborated from other sources . |
| 9 | Here , Mr Broadhurst broke step again , this time wheeling me around to face him . |