Example sentences of "[vb base] me [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Erm you you bring me onto the second dimension of Leeds ' objection which is to do with the distribution of those jobs .
2 Pain , boredom and badgering of some very kind nurses bring me to a steam-age typewriter in the hospital 's occupational therapy department .
3 Lay me alongside the French admiral ! ’
4 If I betrayed the pact between myself and The Fat Controller he would undoubtedly destroy me , fillet me , excarnate me in the screaming void .
5 The Labour Party was not deterred from developing a domestic program me despite the growing concentration on foreign affairs .
6 Other 's forgive me for the wrong doing , and for the harm I do to them , but it 's only God who can forgive my sin .
7 All I can say is the longer you mess me about the worse it will get .
8 Ho , master greybeard loon , ’ he was shouting to Kelly , ‘ come fill the cup , or stap me for a whey-faced knave . ’
9 Sometimes they confuse me with the hon. Member for Walthamstow ( Mr. Summerson ) — I am the hon. Member for Wanstead and Woodford , and unemployment in my constituency has not risen to quite the extent that he suggests .
10 He never put me on a heavy job until at such times he thinks I was fit .
11 Then she walked with me to a bus stop — I had to take one step every two minutes , and that in slow motion — waited with me , put me on the right bus and reminded the conductor where to let me out .
12 It was the way they put me on the right track that made me wonder — guiding angels in the Bible have a habit of appearing as two young men .
13 ‘ It 's definitely put me on the right tracks for the future .
14 Put me on the next train home ? ’ she suggested unsteadily , her pulses skittering recklessly .
15 Ah well they put me on the top rate of pay , which was quite good , thirty five shilling a week .
16 My best friends , Ada , Nora and Nives , all had bicycles , which put me at a serious disadvantage .
17 It was bad enough finding the poor bugger ; to be suspected of carving him up put me in a right tizzy !
18 While I ca n't say I actually enjoyed the experience — as usual , two shirts flaked me out and put me in a bad mood for the rest of the day — I did find the whole process a whole lot easier on the nerves than throwing a glass of water across a shirt in the hope that somehow the creases , along with the water , would eventually evaporate .
19 ‘ You know you put me in a bad position going off like that .
20 A tall and smartly dressed Englishwoman took my hand and put me in a chauffeur-driven car and , suddenly , after three months of confinement behind barbed-wire fences , we were driving away , through the barrier and down the lanes thick and bright with the leaves and flowers of spring .
21 ‘ The police took me to prison without a change of clothes , put me in an awful cell , I was amazed that I was accused . ’
22 You put me in an embarrassing position . ’
23 When I was running away they put me in an approved school for girls run by nuns .
24 They put me in an isolated pit for the first few weeks .
25 I won , which put me in the final contest between all the winners of the ‘ All Winners ’ contest which was to be televised , live , from the London Palladium in July .
26 On the day I drew peg 45 which put me in the private meadow below the Teme mouth .
27 I mean look at myself , my father was a doctor , his father was a schoolteacher , so the way one used to look at things , that immediately when I was born put me in the middle class erm bracket .
28 They put me in the same category as Martinho .
29 Now I need you to back up my story and put me in the clear .
30 ‘ Oh , come on , Deveraugh , quit messing around and let me on the damn boat . ’
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