Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] me [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | How many birds did my true love send to me on the twelfth day of Christmas ? |
| 2 | It 's what they all say to me in the end . |
| 3 | When the little ones squeeze past me in the Superette I give their mops the chaste old tousle . |
| 4 | Take Nosey and the spare horse , then wait for me at the crossroads . |
| 5 | After that , wait for me at the corner of the street . ’ |
| 6 | Wait for me in the office . |
| 7 | Do n't wither on the sterile sidewalks of Paris , he exhorted , ‘ come and paint with me on the heath , in the potato field , come and walk with me behind the plough and the shepherd , come and sit with me , looking into the fire — let the storm that blows across the heath blow through you . ’ |
| 8 | You speak to me like the stepbrother speaks to all the family . |
| 9 | When I get out of my train at Victoria and look about me at the other two hundred — mostly strangers , not least so those whose names as early schoolfellows dawn on me when they disappeared , — I sometimes think that one or two of us ought to speak out instead of just voting and making a remark in the complaint book once or twice a year and writing to a newspaper less often . |
| 10 | They telephone all day ; they run after me in the streets ; they bribe my barber for locks of my hair ; they make my life unbearable . |
| 11 | Knowing as much , my friends , who sit or stand with me under the tree , stare out to sea in silence . |
| 12 | Ezek. 22.30 — ‘ I looked for a man among them who would build up the wall and stand before Me in the gap on behalf of the land so that I would not have to destroy it , but I found none . ’ |
| 13 | Accordingly I ought to be able to say that at this stage his comments seem to me beside the point , or more exactly in excess of it . |
| 14 | Then , picking up a rifle that had been give to me by the French Commandos , I joined the others , lining up in the darkness at the edge of the wood preparing to move off . |
| 15 | I look around me at the massed ranks of Lowestoftians , their vacant faces bearing mute witness to the devastation the town has wrought on their limbic systems . |
| 16 | He would lead me through small flocks of goats , or to where the traffic was worst , and then briefly hide from me in the narrow alley-ways or the open shops . |
| 17 | ‘ They were on the look-out for a female DJ so everyone was very up for me from the word go . |
| 18 | ‘ Men sometimes whistle at me in the street and it does n't bother me a bit . |
| 19 | ‘ Come sit beside me on the bed . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Sit beside me on the bed , just for a little while longer , until I get to sleep ? ’ |
| 21 | saw her go past me up the street . |
| 22 | I looked towards the chateau entrance and saw Queen Poison , dreadful as an army in battle array , sweep towards me across the lowered drawbridge , arms extended as if she wished to clasp me to her deceitful bosom . |
| 23 | If things go against me on the ninth , then I go somewhere serious . " |
| 24 | Films like dreams come and go and are soon forgotten , yet King Kong , which I must have seen in 1933 , or early 1934 , with its scenes of adventure in a fabled land , was the one to overwhelm my mind and stay with me to the present day . |
| 25 | I do n't mean all night , I know you ca n't , but stay with me for the evening . " |
| 26 | Call for me at the rectory , why do n't yer ? |
| 27 | ‘ Just think of me as the Ghost of Cameron Yet to Come … ’ |
| 28 | Soon after he had taken me under his ample wing he had remarked , ‘ Think of me as the Brahmin of the Banal ! |
| 29 | And if I speak a bit plain … just think of me as the woman who gave up everything to save you girls from their worst dangers Dear sisters there is not one of us ladies … who wo n't tell you that we have learnt our most precious lessons of faith … and patience , and self-sacrifice and contentedness under trials from you . |
| 30 | Do n't wither on the sterile sidewalks of Paris , he exhorted , ‘ come and paint with me on the heath , in the potato field , come and walk with me behind the plough and the shepherd , come and sit with me , looking into the fire — let the storm that blows across the heath blow through you . ’ |