Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [verb] me [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They 're all right to take me to the pictures , ’ she said . |
| 2 | But she was in such a hurry that she just could n't stay for long enough to help me with breastfeeding Stephen . |
| 3 | ‘ Oh , it 's got nothing to do with business , ’ Alison replied with a laugh that ever so gently reprimanded me for my mercantile preoccupations . |
| 4 | He basically just told me to be myself . |
| 5 | The best thing to get richer is like , going round car boot sales , like my mum , she 's so funny , dad said she 's a different woman , she 's just like , cos when Phil and I erm , were engaged , we were trying to save up money , so we , oh and like we 'd sell off all our old stuff , so just give me of money , and then , we got these and my mum was pricing everything up , and she 's going , if someone asks for a discount , do n't , just do n't give it to them , she said , everyone 's going round pricing everything up and erm , when they come to you , they just , they just want things for nothing . |
| 6 | He eased me into a role he had only half-consciously cast me for without my noticing it and , by emphasizing the physical attraction I had for him , he made me feel imperative . |
| 7 | So please join me in drinking a toast to the health of my son-in-law 's parents , Gregory and Gillian . |
| 8 | Our family were constant visitors , of course , and many friends — the same , dear kind people who had so readily transported me to the hospital for the nightly visiting . |
| 9 | She returned a few minutes later and somewhat grudgingly led me into a little room at the back . |
| 10 | The hasty note , the spluttering pen , the exasperated correction , the careful clerkly hand , the grandiloquent flourish , the obsequious subscription , the torn seal , the glint of sand still held in the writing from the hand that strewed it centuries ago — all these and much else bring me into close company with the past , more than the rooms in which men sat , the streets they walked , the clothes they wore or the trinkets that adorned them . |
| 11 | So I did — my mother had that drawing for many years — and then Mr Moore rang my mother and said that it was so nice having me in his class because I was so interested and keen , but there was n't really a lot of point , and would n't it be better if I played the piano ? |
| 12 | The voyage will certainly be a very expensive one but I doubt not my work will have a great sale in consequence and if so amply repay me for my exertions . |
| 13 | If he just suddenly hits me without warning , thought Bob , I shall almost certainly go straight over backwards with my feet still caught up in the bar-stool , and split my skull open on the floor . |
| 14 | just enough to leave me with a strange sense |
| 15 | so I 've put that away , I , it ai n't even in my account , Alan 's got that and I said to Alan if I pass this test I shall buy a banger , five hundred quid with this tax money and then put the odd to insurance , if I do n't I 'll leave it where it is , because I , I mean little one will want a holiday and that anyway so I 've kept it for that , but that 's what I intend to do , so I said to Alan if I get a little banger just enough to get me to Tettering and back I was gon na go tech , to do some courses |
| 16 | He did not explain what he meant , but went on rather quickly to tell me about the appointment , and for a while we talked about Cambridge , and places and people that we both knew well . |
| 17 | Viewers usually only see me from above the bump up . ’ |
| 18 | But more particularly to see me on stage — tonight . |
| 19 | No one has ever yet accused me of being short of words . |
| 20 | ‘ 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 . |
| 21 | After they 've scalded my ears with their abuse for a few weeks , and paraded my wreckage before the assembled ranks as an edifying example of what not to do and how not to do it , they will probably just turn me into a stone gargoyle on the roof of some Gothic cathedral . |
| 22 | She also carefully lectured me on the possibility of me treating a baby as a fashion accessory , or something to use as material for an article or two , or even worse — as the excuse for an article or two being late . |
| 23 | They also really used me over the T-shirts which got them busted — and persuaded them to change the shop name from Sex to Seditionaries . |
| 24 | It also conveniently provided me with straight edged divisions of the remaining space . |
| 25 | Not strongly enough to kill me for that , but certainly strongly enough to make killing me satisfying in that respect also . |
| 26 | Well just tell me in English first of all and then |
| 27 | And then she says with a faint show of importance , ‘ Of course the people here simply love me for it . |
| 28 | Your Gift will there daily remind me of your friendship and the many pleasing chats we have had in our favourite pursuits . |
| 29 | ‘ I feel like a giant 's yo-yo — as if there 's someone up there just dangling me on a string . |
| 30 | The air hostesses inquired what I was making and a man passing in the aisle quite genuinely complimented me on my work . ’ |