Example sentences of "[be] [verb] me [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But since he 's been up here , he 's been eating me out of house and home and he does n't pay for it |
| 2 | ‘ Dear God , Rory , ’ he murmured , ‘ you 're driving me out of my mind ! ’ |
| 3 | They say they 're keeping me in for observation . |
| 4 | Well tough he 's not getting my , he 's not getting the ensuite room , I can tell you If I if I have got three lodgers and I 'm getting on with them and they 're they 're paying me regularly for the sake of an extra twenty pounds or whatever and the annoyance from Tony coming in at ten a or there abouts and then sitting there like a stuffed frock waiting for me to leap about and put food on a plate and microwave it not doing it , Brenda ! |
| 5 | ‘ You 're dropping Claudia off here , of course , then you 're taking me on to London , are n't you , Roman ? ’ |
| 6 | Millie you 're showing me up with your picture , it 's not very good . |
| 7 | You mean you 're leaving me here with that man while you enjoy yourself on the ski-slopes ? |
| 8 | They 're trying me out at the school Phil goes to — to see if I can manage . |
| 9 | I knew I did n't deserve his patience ; I had to think up some justification of my silliness , so I said , " They 'll all notice , " which was something that had n't been worrying me up to then . |
| 10 | and she 's been letting me off for the keep . |
| 11 | In a kindly voice ( for which , later , he felt like smacking her ) , she said , ‘ I think you are mixing me up with the child our mother had in the late 1930s . ’ |
| 12 | They 'll be easing me on as the new presenter so as not to put too much pressure on me . |
| 13 | He told me this foolish theory many times , but really he was just telling it to himself : the less of a woman be made me out to be , the less of a lover he would need to be . |
| 14 | In two seconds you 'd be wanting me back for something . " |
| 15 | I think , since this is , after all , my first sermon as curate here — in fact , it 's my first sermon ever — I 'd better stop or the Bishop will be posting me back to Rosstrevor . |
| 16 | George said : ‘ By that time , they could be digging me up for the operation . ’ |
| 17 | Er I thought you did well in erm giving yourself credibility by talking about the shares , oh yes you can have two hundred and fifty pounds per month in the shares and they 've done well and I said oh yes they have done well , and I felt good that you were praising me up for being such a clever chap , and so I thought that was all , all jolly good stuff . |
| 18 | They pulled me up off the floor with my hands up behind my back and they were walking me out of the chemist with my arms up and my head pushed down and one of them was kicking me in the back of my legs to get me over to the car . |
| 19 | Always out for a laugh , I mentioned that his volumes of ‘ free verse ’ were costing me up to $2. per copy , and he promised to send me his next book . |
| 20 | This was my case , dusted down from Granny 's attic when they were taking me away from the farm . |
| 21 | The DHSS were playing me up over the removal grant , so one of my sons went up to the house to see if there were any letters — everything had been smashed , crocks were smashed and the beds were slashed . |
| 22 | But this year an even more offensive marketing ploy is keeping me away from my Christmas shopping . |
| 23 | I have the right to know what she is doing and , if she is having an affair , it has got to stop because it is driving me out of my mind . ’ |
| 24 | The woman is looking me straight in the eyes , Alida thought , she does not know even the basic elements of courtesy , she has paid no attention at all to the very relevant account of my condition . |
| 25 | A car is picking me up at 1.30 to take me to Thames T.V. to be made up as a Chinese coolie . |
| 26 | He 's done me up like a kipper and I fucking fell for it . |
| 27 | Glen 's picking me up at half six , yeah |
| 28 | He 's picking me up on my bus again . |
| 29 | It is urging me on over the years bidding me neglect those that were without Cathenne , where as I set out to tell the story of my life , the dull with the bright , the gray with the green , all the Sundays Mondays and Tuesdays of it at least sufficiently to suggest them . |
| 30 | You have to all you can do today is drop me off in , near the memorial in Chudleigh cos I got |