Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [verb] me [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well unfortunately my girlfriend is dragging me off to Rhodes for a week so I 'll miss the Norwich , Scouse and Oldham game . |
| 2 | Tell you the truth , Johnny , this deal is getting me down . |
| 3 | The isolation is getting me down a bit — I have had to seek to be pretty resilient spiritually with George in , and so the extra resources are pretty deplete because of that . |
| 4 | A car is picking me up at 1.30 to take me to Thames T.V. to be made up as a Chinese coolie . |
| 5 | And it was getting dragged back and the engine was going like mad trying to push it along and the wind was pushing me back , and I was thinking am I going forwards or backward here ? |
| 6 | The wind was driving me further out to sea and my boat began to fill with water . |
| 7 | ’ I do n't recall you being so keen to leave while your lover-boy was knocking me around in Fif 's last night ’ . |
| 8 | So the school 's first job was to cut me down to normal proportions — which they did . |
| 9 | As I got closer to the raised platform at the far end of the church , it was as if the sound was pushing me forward . |
| 10 | I did n't know whether my imagination was leading me astray when you seemed to be implying something like that . ’ |
| 11 | It 's my , it 's my birthday Monday and I 'm just , my wife 's taking me really ? |
| 12 | And your witless behaviour is causing me more trouble in the end . |
| 13 | The problem is , as a man , how do I approach people and say , ‘ Look my wife is beating me up . ’ |
| 14 | But this year an even more offensive marketing ploy is keeping me away from my Christmas shopping . |
| 15 | Old Red was studying me clinically . |
| 16 | Some time later , my headache had receded , my costume was discarded and my bunk was clasping me as tenderly as a mother 's arms . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Erm my arthritis is playing me up this week . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | I know the signs — when a woman is leading me on . |
| 21 | A very striking example was told me not long since by someone who attended a dinner party in Moscow soon after Gagarin 's space trip — the Gagarin who had reported that he did not see God in space ( see p. 57 ) . |
| 22 | He was sitting there with his head in his hands ; he did not rise when the train passed ; he made no movement ; he did not give a glance at the signs I made him ; and for a long time as the train was carrying me away , I watched his little motionless , grief-stricken figure , lost in the desert , an image of my own despair . |
| 23 | In retrospect then it is the final remark in that poignant description of Athman by the river which is the most telling : ‘ tor a long time as the train was carrying me away , I watched his little motionless , grief-stricken figure , lost in the desert , an image of my own despair ’ . |
| 24 | A quick sideways prod of the transfer gear-lever was all that I needed to give the big machine the traction of a funicular railway , as if an invisible cable winch was hauling me up . |
| 25 | And the supporters been treating me well , the promotion been treating me well , so obviously I never really wanted to move but we had a few problems with the negotiating with the contract and the financial terms was n't quite right so but I 'm glad to say we 've got it right now and you know we both sort of gave a bit and we came to a settlement er which I 'm very pleased about . |
| 26 | ‘ I feel like life is passing me by . |
| 27 | Sometimes I feel that life is passing me by , not slowly either , but with ropes of steam and spark-spattered wheels and a hoarse roar of power or terror . |
| 28 | ‘ The lack of sleep is getting me down . ’ |
| 29 | The word is excuse me please |
| 30 | It may only have been the milestone of hitting thirty , but I could n't help feeling that it was proof that life was passing me by . |