Example sentences of "[prep] me [conj] [verb] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | He took my passport off me and told me to sit down on a bench sat against the wall ; I picked up a magazine and read it while he checked my details . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It was never going to be a career for me but kept me in beer money and taught me about how to deal with the public . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | And he hung it there for me and made me feel its proportions . |
| 6 | Type Report on Yugoslav Spitfires by Peter Arnold in the April issue ( p70 ) evoked many memories for me and caused me to rummage around for some half-forgotten photos of nearly half a century ago , and there it was , Mk VcJK808 ‘ B ’ with yours truly in attendance . |
| 7 | This was a big step for me and put me on the road to caddying top tournaments at a very young age . |
| 8 | Say that for me and go I 'd say it were you were a snob . |
| 9 | I thanked them for praying for me and seeing me now , hoped they thought their efforts worthwhile . |
| 10 | She briefly told them what had occurred , and asked the lad to look for me and tell me that I must go to the police station and not come home without an officer for protection . |
| 11 | When he returned , he sent for me and said I must be stark crazy . |
| 12 | Lord Palmerston sent for me and told me in a jaunty way that he would have nothing to do with this Gothic style , and that though he did not want to disturb my appointment he must insist on my making a design in the Italian style which he felt sure I could do as well as the other . |
| 13 | The next I knew was when the boy came for me and told me that there were two dead bodies in the Little Vestry . |
| 14 | He reaches for me and holds me tight , and the tremble of him is tremendous . |
| 15 | Must now conclude trusting my dear that every blessing will attend you and trusting I may find you well when I return — kiss dear Fritz [ ? ] for me and believe me to remain Eliza |
| 16 | But later , I realized that it had been quite good for me and stopped me getting big-headed . |
| 17 | I only once went into his garden , a beautifully kept one , even in war-time , when he kindly picked a bunch of tulips for me and showed me some new potatoes he was growing in pots in the greenhouse . |
| 18 | And after two and a half hours , the doctor made the decision for me and gave me the epidural . |
| 19 | In a Welsh farm family the grandmother was bedridden , and child-care fell to the grandfather : ‘ cause he was in the house , he was the one that looked after me and kept me in order . ’ |
| 20 | But the dogs chased after me and attacked me , and I was soon knocked to the ground . |
| 21 | But I have two lovely daughters and two sons , and they 've always looked after me and loved me . |
| 22 | ‘ Jane , ’ ( bending towards me and kissing me ) , ‘ is that still your intention ? ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Definitely , people have been respectful towards me and given me some free time . |
| 24 | As I landed , four of the men came towards me and took me by the arms . |
| 25 | Father spun round , took three steps towards me and smacked me on the ear . |
| 26 | ‘ One barged past me and said I was not going to be taking the car away and became abusive . |
| 27 | There was just some little part of me that carried me wide of him . |
| 28 | I 've always been a worker yet there is a part of me that feels I could end up like that , too . |
| 29 | When he joined Ingard and wanted a number two he thought of me and asked me to come in with him . |
| 30 | ‘ When I wear a fine coat , the working people that I want for models are afraid of me and distrust me , or they want more money from me . ’ |