Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [coord] [vb -s] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have to dress in my sweaty , dirty clothes and go back down to the kitchen , grumbling while she makes me a coffee , and I complain about my wet boots and she gives me a fresh pair of William 's socks to wear and I put them on and drink my coffee and whine about never being allowed to spend the night and tell her how just once I 'd like to wake up here in the morning , and have a nice , civilised breakfast with her , sitting on the sunny balcony outside the bedroom windows , but she makes me sit down while she laces my boots up , then takes my coffee cup off me and sends me out the back door and says I 've got two minutes before she arms the alarm and puts the infrared lights on stand-by so I have to go back the way I came , over the estate wall and through the wood and down into the stream where I get both feet wet and cold and I fall going up the bank and get all muddy and eventually drag myself up and through the hedge , scratching my cheek and tearing my polo-neck and then trudging across the field through heavy rain and more mud and finally getting to the car and panicking when I ca n't find the car keys before remembering I put them in the button-down back pocket of the jeans for safety instead of the side pocket like I usually do , and then having to put some dead branches under the front wheels because the fucking car 's stuck and finally getting away and home and even in the street light I can see what a mess of the pale upholstery my muddy clothes have made . |
| 2 | Second , the specificity of who it is safe to love is related to the ‘ me in you ’ : ‘ I love someone who reflects part of myself , sometimes a hidden or unacknowledged part of myself ; I feel good with a you who either shares my feelings , expresses them for me or helps me to defend myself against them . ’ |
| 3 | He reaches for me and holds me tight , and the tremble of him is tremendous . |
| 4 | I am greatly touched that she thinks of me and remembers me even in the state of forgetfulness of human affairs in which she now finds herself . |
| 5 | Then this young punk comes up behind me and hits me on the head with a car-tool . |
| 6 | One more time my skin warms against his and reminds me that I am this person , not generic , wife of nothing . |
| 7 | A classic example is the agoraphobic housewife whose husband is , ‘ really wonderful , very sympathetic and understanding … he does everything for me … he comes around all the shops with me and drives me wherever I want to go ’ . |
| 8 | And so when God comes to me and asks me to do something he 's already walked that path before me . |
| 9 | The same bloke who was there before comes up to me and tells me they 're closing . |
| 10 | At least , this human being loyally follows me around the place , keeps tabs on me and rings me up the whole time . |
| 11 | Then he goes all quiet and throws some money at me and tells me to hurry up and ca n't wait to get the other boy out of the shop . |