Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [verb] me [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm getting paranoid about that , determined not to sign anything , worried that maybe I already have when they first brought me here and said it was just a receipt for personal effects or a legal-aid application or whatever , and I worry about them getting me to sign something when I 'm tired and they 've been interviewing me in shifts and all I want to do is go to bed and sleep and they say oh do us all a favour and sign this and you can sleep , come on now ; it 's just a formality you can always deny it later , change your mind , but you ca n't you ca n't of course , they 're lying and you ca n't ; I even worry about signing something in my sleep , or them hypnotising me and getting me to do it that way ; hell , I do n't know what they get up to . |
| 2 | " I can not accept lectures , " he told his guests , " because the people who pay for them expect me to attend cocktail parties at which I am caught between someone wanting to know what I think of existentialism and someone asking me what I really meant by such-and-such a line " . |
| 3 | I had a nurse either side of me telling me to push , but I could n't push . |
| 4 | It was nice of them to let me join in , they were very patient , but you could see they were itching for a good game and I 'm just hopeless . |
| 5 | They seemed happy about my victory in Germany and most of them expected me to win more races last year . ’ |
| 6 | Some of them became my friends and have remained so until the present day , but the sheer earthy mass of them made me realize how my few months of married life had changed me . |
| 7 | Anyway , one of them told me to stay and gave me a raffle ticket . |
| 8 | One of them slugged me to shut me up . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ All right , then , tell me what it was this friend of yours had me do for him , and I 'll tell you whether I can do ‘ something similar ’ . ’ |
| 10 | It had two wings , one of which made me think of a church . |
| 11 | All of which makes me wonder how well this very American , sugar-pie world will translate to Europe . |
| 12 | ‘ Thanks , Dad , that was jolly sporting of you to let me have first cast . |
| 13 | ‘ It was kind of you to let me know . |
| 14 | ‘ And I still find the idea of you wanting me to do it … unsettling . ’ |
| 15 | Yet 32 million of you watched me talking directly to you for half-an-hour in prime time ’ . |
| 16 | ‘ Lowering of you to expect me to remember . |
| 17 | as opposed to that was a part of being a tenant , you know , for the honour of you pay me rent but you also come and work on my land for how many days |
| 18 | A parallel line crossing the Thumb to the left of They Brush Me had also been equipped by Mick Lovatt who was close to success . |
| 19 | ‘ And the lady , it is especially kind of her to allow me to stay . ’ |
| 20 | He played a very happy part in my childhood and just the thought of him makes me smile even today . |
| 21 | I had only been at home for about ten days when a friend of mine asked me to join him on a journey to the East Indies . |
| 22 | I always seem to , I think we , we were always at Stanford Hall that we must , it was a must that we have a good programme because if somebody comes and there 's nothing doing , they think well you know yo I , I , you see I suppose I 've got that orientated into Guild work but a friend of mine enticed me to go to er a club and erm it 's just simply for any age group , any sex male or female , but you must bereaved you know and erm she is a widow and I was widow , so I went but you see we , we sat round and you just , there was nothing organised and to me who had always been organised , I just felt so like a lost soul you know and er then one chappie put some records on and you cou and you could n't dance to them and I said oh , you know to me I thought wh you know but I do n't want to do it , I 've got enough to do but , I , I was straight away , I was looking for the organisation behind it you know . |
| 23 | ‘ The very thought of it makes me want to press the panic button , crawl under the bed and call for HRT , ’ says one friend . |
| 24 | A neighbour of ours heard me shouting , came and looked over the fence , and cleared off ! |
| 25 | I enclose a copy of what caused me to miss the last meeting of the Powys Health Project . |
| 26 | This meaning contrasts with that found in sentences such as She ordered me to break down the door , where only part of the movement signified by to is actualized : Here the infinitive can be described as evoking a subsequent potentiality , i.e. an event whose actualization is futurized with respect to that of the main verb . |
| 27 | The whole movement is conceived in cases such as She got me to break down the door , which have been diagrammed as : In this sense , the infinitive can be said to evoke a subsequent actualization , i.e. an event which is actualized as a consequence of a previous event bringing it into being . |
| 28 | ‘ Everything about you makes me feel that , ’ he murmured . |
| 29 | I kept waiting and waiting for you to ask me to stay but you did n't . |
| 30 | She told me once to do some lines and I goes , ‘ It 's not worth you telling me to do them , because I wo n't do them ’ , and she goes , ‘ Well , I think you should do them ’ , and I goes , ‘ Well , I 'm not going to , so I do n't know what you 'll have to do with me ’ . |