Example sentences of "[verb] me [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I must ask those who are more familiar with the sciences to forgive me for any passages where they feel I might be guilty of over simplification . |
| 2 | And he irritates me by repeating things over and over again . ’ |
| 3 | But Forest manager Clough , already upset with his team 's disappointing start , yesterday declared : ‘ Both players have been to see me about new contracts but they 're not getting them . |
| 4 | My hon. Friend has been to see me about this matter with a group of colleagues . |
| 5 | As he was a very busy man , I was grateful that Eliot should have been prepared to see me without any notice at all . |
| 6 | Nobody came to see me for three days . |
| 7 | My father come to see me at one holiday and the Easter time he see something happen and they did n't like him and cos all my as cabin boy . |
| 8 | Only thirty people were allowed in to see me at one time . |
| 9 | Instead of inviting my patients to see me at 10-minute intervals — generally I offer them each 10 minutes of my time — I shall invite the lot to attend at 9 o'clock in the morning . |
| 10 | Oh you want to see me in four weeks ? |
| 11 | But er you want to see me in four weeks to see about that ? |
| 12 | I 've the head of the Board of Tourism coming to see me in five minutes . ’ |
| 13 | I do n't want to see Sarah in that way , and I would n't want her to see me in that kind of light either . ’ |
| 14 | At my weekend surgery three pensioners came to see me in considerable distress because of the difficulty that they faced in paying their water and electricity bills and other bills from private utilities following the large price increases . |
| 15 | ‘ And if you are too tired to write you must come to see me in any case , and then I shall know you are safe . |
| 16 | In breaks in our work Edward entertained me with curious stories of the old alchemists . |
| 17 | It soileth my soul , It leadeth me into deep waters , |
| 18 | ‘ You 're using me as some sort of buffer between yourself and your feelings for Claire . |
| 19 | You flatter me by insisting on seeing me as some sort of Casanova figure . |
| 20 | They did n't want me at this party , but because I AM , fang and claw I have grapple-hooked their smooth cliffs , and have the right to stalk these wooded cliffs , lap at their abundant streams . |
| 21 | Without taking hold of me , she forced me to stand in one spot of my own will , while she whipped me on all sides . |
| 22 | I take it you book me into that hotel . |
| 23 | O God give me the strength to be victorious over myself , for nothing may chain me to this life . |
| 24 | Ask yourself the question , ‘ Is it my desire , my greed , my wish to be in control that drives me in this matter , or do I feel the lightness of purpose that is a mark of the guidance from within ? ’ |
| 25 | ‘ You 're accusing me of burning dogs again , are n't you ? |
| 26 | Later , from South Africa , he wrote to thank me for this advice , but now he reciprocated by telling me , with great gentleness , that I should not go on hoping , as he himself had searched the P.O.W. lists , and Leslie 's name was not on any of them . |
| 27 | ‘ There is nothing , ’ she said caustically , ‘ that you could do that would make me in any way feel good . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Julius does n't affect me in any way . |
| 29 | Ward was due to take over the driving and at the end of it I slumped into the seat beside him in a happy daze which insulated me from all sense of reality . |
| 30 | No doubt my readers will have bigger and better examples of the persistence of facies which so fascinates me in this chapter , but I write as far as possible from my own experience . |