Example sentences of "[vb base] me [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I take it you book me into that hotel . |
| 2 | The hasty note , the spluttering pen , the exasperated correction , the careful clerkly hand , the grandiloquent flourish , the obsequious subscription , the torn seal , the glint of sand still held in the writing from the hand that strewed it centuries ago — all these and much else bring me into close company with the past , more than the rooms in which men sat , the streets they walked , the clothes they wore or the trinkets that adorned them . |
| 3 | In 89 , a poem of infidelity ( ‘ Say that thou didst forsake me for some fault ’ ) , the Poet abases himself , vowing to perform all kinds of penance in order to win the Friend back , including never mentioning his name again in case he ‘ haply of our old acquaintance tell ’ : it is over , in the past . |
| 4 | Beside him , the Substitute burst into delighted laughter and said , ‘ Maestrangelo , introduce me to this man ! ’ |
| 5 | if those people also supply me with never-ending cups of tea and coffee while they 're there . |
| 6 | ’ I gather you want me for 2 deaths and a fire . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Expect me in ten minutes . ’ |
| 8 | Unlike Sam , or even me for that matter , he could admire a girl from afar , and leave it at that . |
| 9 | ‘ Heaven preserve me from all women ; they 're nothing but a damned nuisance when they try to ensure my number-one driver is handicapped before the race has even started ! ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Lots of people at school have commented on it and now associate me with Tory party propaganda . |
| 11 | Put me in the oven and bake me for forty minutes . |
| 12 | By the way those did I tell you they put me on some tablets to re to erm to erm |
| 13 | Oh well they treated me alright afterwards because Mr er said , well you see they put me on big presses during the last war and er I 've always loved machinery , always loved machinery and then the foreman said er before the foreman came to him Mr said er , you 've got to learn to set your own tools , he said , I ca n't keep coming out of the tool room and er to change your tools , so of course erm I began setting my own tools , but when I got them in they would come around and check because otherwise hundreds of pounds have gone , could have gone if I had n't just got the top to go in right in the base you know , and er they were great big presses very big . |
| 14 | They took me along and they put me into this dormitory . |
| 15 | It spat a worrisome mixture of steam and flame out periodically and covered the bottom of the pans with black ooze , a treacly goo that got itself on to my pile jacket and put me in good humour for an hour or so . |
| 16 | Barlow confessed : ‘ Mo called for the ball and put me in two minds . |
| 17 | I , I just have er I just have to drink a lot that 's you know put me in first class and full of drink |
| 18 | I had just turned sixteen and they put me in this place that was really for dossers . |
| 19 | Let me with some humility , therefore , describe the manner in which I and my colleagues have sought to try and create our own dream of where our company might fit into tomorrow 's world , and how this process of marrying the vision from the top with the visions from below has been carried out within ICI . |
| 20 | If that power was sufficient , the holy spirit , if that power was sufficient to raise Christ from the dead , you not think he 's able to exert that power in your life and in my life to make us live lives that are pleasing to God , of course it is so we do n't do it ourselves , just let me in closing mention one other thing , this relationship we have needs to be maintained , you know for any relationship to grow , one needs to spend time with the other person , I do n't give a lot of credence to the saying that absence makes the heart grow fonder , it does with somebody else , it 's true , it does not make it grow fonder of that person the person is you know who you , you heard this story so often , like particularly like going back during the last war , folk who were separated sometimes for , for , not just for months but for several years , there they were in concentration camps perhaps , in prisoner of war camps , separated for years , they come back home they 've got to get to know each other all over again you see that a relationship on a human level as well as in our relationship with God is dependent on , on association , it 's dependent on companionship , it 's dependent on spending time with the other person and in our relationship with Christ this is achieved by , by prayer , by knowing and understanding God 's word , by having fellowship with other Christians and fellowship with other Christians is not just meeting them and passing the time of day with them , oh that 's fellowship but it 's far more than that is required , there 's the fellowship in worship , we worship together , of course I can worship God at home of course I can do it , so can you do it and we , we should do it , but there 's that re , there 's that need , that requirement as God 's people we come together to worship him in a corporate act , in the sacraments , in , as we mentioned in , in earlier on in taking the bread and the wine and remembering the lords death , there 's a sense in which I can do it by myself |
| 21 | Furthermore , there are particular reasons which impel me to that conclusion . |
| 22 | Sometimes I think you suspect me of many things . |
| 23 | By your expression , I judge that you suspect me of pseudo-intellectual flim-flam and it is undeniable that our deliberations tended more towards the sybaritic than the Socratic . |
| 24 | You owe me for this candy , the mother . |
| 25 | ‘ You recall me to common sense and my duties , McAllister . |
| 26 | Save me from these murderers ! ’ |
| 27 | I got drunk on rhum by myself at the Rotonde and ran up and down the streets crying and ringing bells and saying ‘ Save me from this man ! ’ |
| 28 | Both the men in expensive suits meet me on big-suited territory . |
| 29 | Meet me in ten minutes with your plan . |
| 30 | ‘ Just get me to this place and then I can phone a garage . |