Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [pron] [verb] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | For reasons which baffle me , the referee thought that it was Gimbert who was pulling down the scrum . |
| 2 | I married Melanie in a rush , for reasons which embarrass me to remember . |
| 3 | After coffee he drew me aside , quietly admitted I was right , and agreed that Roald Dahl must withdraw . |
| 4 | I told her what had happened and she took it all in her stride , and once she 'd stopped laughing about Simon she told me to head for the pub where I 'd dropped Clara . |
| 5 | ‘ Where 's that bottle of champagne you promised me ? ’ |
| 6 | In fact , he had no need of anything more than a lock of hair he showed me . ’ |
| 7 | He has told colleagues in the force in South Africa ( ‘ There are lots of cops who support me ’ ) that he is ready ‘ to lick your arse in Church Square on a Sunday , if I ca n't solve it in two days ’ — referring to the notorious unsolved murder of the antiapartheid activist , David Webster . |
| 8 | I visited a one-man research station of the Cyprus Department of Agriculture who invited me to taste the products of many combinations of variety and soil . |
| 9 | Because they 're geared to Marks and Spencers , now there 's the advert for them they work with , with mass production , that 's where it goes wrong because we 've lost our individuality and so I go to the Italians in order to get the sort of yarns they offer me , now they 're the sort of yarns they offer me . |
| 10 | Because they 're geared to Marks and Spencers , now there 's the advert for them they work with , with mass production , that 's where it goes wrong because we 've lost our individuality and so I go to the Italians in order to get the sort of yarns they offer me , now they 're the sort of yarns they offer me . |
| 11 | And of course what defeated me was knows this fellow that is an ambulance driver and he 's classed as working class . |
| 12 | A workload survey that the are doing , and er they they 're trying to get loads of GPs to do it and of course they want me to do it next week , and I 'm not here next week . |
| 13 | But I mean of course they plugged me up with all sorts of things . |
| 14 | And then of course he tells me about punk rock and he was there and he was the meaning of punk rock . |
| 15 | So of course he called me , my dearest . |
| 16 | And erm then of course she told me about this so my mother went to see him . |
| 17 | But of course she told me that when they came there they were there to look after the place so that it was n't taken over , you know by anybody else , but she had a washing machine , the washing machine come in just after . |
| 18 | But of course she interests me . |
| 19 | Of course it appals me . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Of course it gave me insights . |
| 21 | No he used to , I know who , Dawn , he used to take me sometimes and a couple of times he took me up to the and he used to say to me and what would you take for starters so I always said well I always like erm prawn cocktail |
| 22 | This I did at once with a feeling of self-importance which blinded me to the now obvious fact that she was abrogating her responsibilities and allowing them to devolve , once more , upon her eldest daughter . |
| 23 | For me , this system meant the weeding out of subjects which bored me , and the opportunity to concentrate and read around those which really interested me . |
| 24 | Every couple of months he takes me aside and , his breath sweet with trapped drink , asks me how I am . |
| 25 | So for the meanwhile I continued with my ritualised observances , obsessively counting the number of steps it took me to walk to any given location , carefully avoiding the cracks in the pavement for fear that the bears of the id might get me , and attending to my bodily functions with the pure metrical devotion of a sadhu . |
| 26 | No I think what it was was a load of bullshit they give me . |
| 27 | It was this change of circumstances which led me in announcing the making of the emergency order to say that W. 's wishes were no longer of weight . |
| 28 | I flew over copies of that photograph of Tweed you gave me , ’ Morgan reported as he drove the Daimler beyond Exeter towards Dartmoor . |
| 29 | We spent a day on the headland of Dun which reminds me so much of Mykinesholmur in the Faroes . |
| 30 | I 'm happy where I am and I get called every couple of weeks which suits me . ’ |