Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [pron] [verb] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | I stopped his neighbours burning his house once , and for that he owes me . |
| 2 | You er but when we were talking about this she told me that |
| 3 | We worked 12 hours a day , and for this he paid me 200 francs ( £20 ) a week because , he said , he had to take our board and lodging from our pay . ’ |
| 4 | I was involved with the show that was recorded at The Marquee and I think a few months after that he called me and said he was doing an album called ‘ Diamond Dogs ’ and did n't know where to get it mixed . |
| 5 | ‘ Many battles have I fought , but it is the memory of that one chills me most . |
| 6 | The thought of morning service is always a pain , and the prospect of this one made me stick my head back under the duvet to block out the already brilliant day . |
| 7 | First of all you tell me to turn it down and then you tell me to turn it up . |
| 8 | I say : " And a fat lot of good it does me . " |
| 9 | A fat lot of good it did me ! |
| 10 | My secret eating was expressing what my secret writing ( a misplaced oral activity ) could not : my hatred towards those who oppressed me , my desperate sense of isolation . |
| 11 | It becomes a great pleasure to read this passage , another justification of those who assured me that A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland remains one of the fundamental works in the literature of travel . |
| 12 | Your father was one of those who attacked me . ’ |
| 13 | Of course we had no right to expect the life of the household , let alone the street , to be hushed because of us , but in the absence of quiet it took me hours to drift off . |
| 14 | But now , it is things like that which make me ask : what is morality ? |
| 15 | Or you may be like those who tell me they 've used what could have been a disaster to make their lives more what they wanted them to be . |
| 16 | For all she advises me of her condition she might be blind and I would n't know it . |
| 17 | With that she saw me off with an invitation to visit her the next day after school but that I was to tell my parents in case they were worried where I was . |
| 18 | With this he dismissed me . |
| 19 | But above all what obsessed me was Richardson 's way of speaking Shakespeare . |
| 20 | It improved my techniques and skill in interpretation , but above all it gave me confidence in teaching and training students . |
| 21 | In vain you tempt me while our Orchard bears |
| 22 | However , it is unlike a prudential or moral imperative in that it tells me only how to prepare for a choice , not how to choose . |
| 23 | Kuijken ( ) , as ever , puts musical values first , and in this he reminds me very much of a firstgeneration ‘ authentic ’ recording made by the Collegium Aureum under Schmidt-Garden ( not yet available on CD ) , which similarly involved one textually in a way which few versions can match , even if one is left with the impression that many of the musical solutions may have registered almost as comfortably on modern instruments . |
| 24 | Even in the 1975 Open Roberto recognized how good Seve was , at Lytham in 1979 he told me Seve was going to win , and before the 1976 Open he said , ‘ There 's Johnny Miller , Tom Weiskopf and Seve . |
| 25 | In particular it showed me the many opportunities we have , and that we are a talented organisation . |
| 26 | One year prior to this she consulted me because of night sweats and oedema . |
| 27 | I just think I just think it 's quite important for us all to realize I did a , when I used to do a similar job to this it took me a long time before I realized that the customer , you know on the phone does n't know that your you should n't have asked an open question there |
| 28 | I should become bad , selfish , a curse to myself and to all who knew me . |
| 29 | Not all the congratulatory letters were complimentary , but I 'm just as grateful to those who took me to task or argued with me or lectured me as I am to those who gave me a kind pat . |
| 30 | I offered my back to those who beat me , my cheeks to those who pulled out my beard … |