Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] me [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were prepared to hit me on the head , were n't they ? ’ |
| 2 | Lord knows what they say to her , but they must be on at her night and day , to get her into a state where she 's afraid to acknowledge me on the phone ! ’ |
| 3 | I plan to donate approximately 30 items myself and a friend if willing to help me with the selling . |
| 4 | ‘ Who should be free to help me with the food . |
| 5 | The realization that I had an incurable disease that was likely to kill me in a few years was a bit of a shock . |
| 6 | I could tell Gillian and Stuart were n't thrilled to see me at the airport . |
| 7 | Jenny was supposed to meet me at the airport . " |
| 8 | I shuffled forward as fast as I dared along the central walkway , figuring this to be less likely to lead me towards a choice-limiting edge . |
| 9 | ‘ Newcastle were supposed to contact me over the weekend , but I have n't heard anything , ’ rapped McGraw . |
| 10 | Nothing could be worse than the life I was leading at present , I thought , where the pressures from being homeless and unemployed were likely to force me into a series of criminal acts which would result in prison , or vagrancy at the least . |
| 11 | I always said if I won the 100 it would be very hard to beat me in the 200 . |
| 12 | I was sure that I could smooth over our little misunderstanding , and that Sergia would then be glad to have me on the job — so to speak — instead of some heavy-footed FedPol type . |
| 13 | ‘ If a bank manager saw fit to show me round a vault containing safe deposits and I found a gold bracelet on the floor , I should have no doubt that the bank had a better title than I , and the reason is the manifest intention to exercise a very high degree of control . |
| 14 | Well , I think it 's a bit unnecessary to put me on the spot — this is n't a bloody inquisition . |
| 15 | Will you be able to provide me with a erm WordPerfect package ? |
| 16 | A shadow fell across my sunny table and I looked up to find Kenneth who 'd been on a recce of the hospital , so after a lunch of ribs , skins , wings and blueberry pie , he was able to lead me through the appropriate doors of the vast , multi-entranced building . |
| 17 | After ten he was hardly able to look me in the ear . |
| 18 | You 'd be able to hear me on the radio , smiling . |
| 19 | I have been interested in the dynamics of the golf swing for ten years , and John is an expert on instrumentation who was able to help me with the experimental work . |
| 20 | But I found it too embarrassing to keep suggesting to a fellow professional that he should take time off from his own work to accompany me to functions where he was not able to join me at the dinner table when he got there . |
| 21 | I think Anna was pleased to see me despite the knowing looks from the other two , and none of them seemed to have heard about Salome , so I stayed tight-lipped . |
| 22 | You 're about as pleased to see me as a peasant is to meet the tax-gatherer ! ’ |
| 23 | All the crew liked and even obeyed Silver , and he was always pleased to see me in the kitchen , which he kept as clean as a new pin . |
| 24 | ‘ I find analysis essential to get me through the day . |
| 25 | She twigged what I was driving at … that I suspected Alain had been murdered … and decided to get in first to throw me off the scent . |
| 26 | It takes little to get me on the right lines . |
| 27 | ‘ You seem determined to drive me into the arms of easier women , Meredith . ’ |
| 28 | The implied judgement on me , Vicky 's notional partner , should have been enough to send me into a screaming spiral of paranoid depression . |
| 29 | She was frigid and strait-laced and therefore somewhat ill-equipped to keep me on the straight and narrow . |
| 30 | He flinches for only half a second , but it 's enough to take me inside the hall . |