Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] me [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | The Leith-based Small , 19 , who reached the last 16 of the 1992 Embassy World Championship , said : ‘ This is my last event of the season , but I have still learned a great deal and I 'm sure it can only benefit me in the years to come . ’ |
2 | ‘ You 'd better drop me at the hospital . ’ |
3 | ‘ MY GRANDADDY … would gently nudge me off the sidewalk if a white person ever walked close by . ’ |
4 | ‘ You 'd better take me to the station , then . |
5 | ‘ I think they would both probably only tell me after the event about having sex for the first time but as long as I have helped prepare them they wo n't do anything silly . |
6 | You 'd better tell me about the other night . |
7 | You better accompany me off the main street . |
8 | But it will happen … not quite yet but at the point where he will no longer hinder me with the pretence that he would have me stay . |
9 | And you might just see me in the background of one of the shots . |
10 | ‘ And I 'd be grateful if you 'd just tell me without the need to shake it out of you . ’ |
11 | If you could just get me to the nearest station — ’ |
12 | If you can just get me into the house without your mother seeing … ’ |
13 | As it was your generous gift of the physic Garden to the Worshipful Company of Apothecaries that encouraged the supporting of that Garden for the improvement of Botany and so consequently was the Occasion of my being employed in a service so agreeable to my natural inclinations , so the favourable opinion you have had of my abilities , when you was pleased to recommend me to that worshipful Company , with the several instances I have since had of your generous inclinations to encourage the Art and me , will ever lay me under the greatest obligations to endeavour to answer that character you was please to give of me and herein humbly hoping to approve myself what I most desire to be thought of … |
14 | He 'd usually greet me in the Devon dialect . |
15 | And he had begged my mother not to ever put me in the bank . |
16 | Bloody ballbag 'll probably phone me in the morning or something . |
17 | Someone will probably tell me of the almost incredible persistence of the Karroo sandstones of southern and eastern Africa , or the Nubian sandstones across North Africa into the Middle East , or the Dakota Sandstone in the American West . |
18 | What would really put me on the spot , and how will I cope with it ? |
19 | She did n't really help me in the ways I needed |
20 | She did n't really help me in the ways I needed , ’ she says . |
21 | If it makes you feel better , you can even pay me for the drink . ’ |
22 | Although in the early days Derek was happy to drive me around and did n't even charge me for the petrol , pretty soon our visits here and there grew so frequent and far afield that he was finding himself quite a bit out of pocket . |
23 | ‘ They wo n't even let me into the building . ’ |
24 | The woman at the employment exchange would n't even register me on the Professional Executive Register . |
25 | Perhaps , once you have had a chance to mull this one over , could you please telephone me at the home number above ? |
26 | Could you please help me with the rewiring of the brake pressure warning lamp of my 1980/1 Safari 9iX cylinder ? |
27 | I 'll have to get Roberto , my hairdresser , and his manicurist to virtually meet me off the plane . ’ |
28 | He 'd never find me in the spaces . |