Example sentences of "[v-ing] me [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean technically we do have an entitlement to visits in that Janet was was reminding me the other day that that we said , when Deborah was here , that everybody was entitled to four visits a year . |
| 2 | My long-suffering owl chauffeur said to me one day while he was yet again driving me to some venue I was going to give a talk at , ‘ You and that bird are costing me a bloody fortune ! ’ |
| 3 | shell landed forty metres behind me , causing me a disagreeable surprise . |
| 4 | Erm , I was erm , put on just for in ninety seventy three and your question that you 're asked was and from nineteen seventy three till three years ago erm I know took my causes , I trust , put my trust in the doctors and erm over all those years I did n't realize that it was actually the tablets that was causing me the mental illness . |
| 5 | they pay , they pay , they are paying me a little bit , I think it ought to go up in price a bit though myself |
| 6 | Mat. , she had managed to give the impression authority was granting me a great favour . |
| 7 | The second is a mutual agreement that substantive conditions of supply will hold , for example ‘ in exchange for you granting me an exclusive territory , I promise to sell only your products in that territory ’ . |
| 8 | ‘ The other boys keep calling me a big cissy , ’ sobbed John , ‘ and hitting me ! ’ |
| 9 | ‘ He screamed at me , calling me an evil bitch who had tried to trap him ’ |
| 10 | He screamed at me , calling me an evil bitch who had tried to entrap him . |
| 11 | I thought you were calling me the bearded wonder then . |
| 12 | It 's teaching me a little bit , you see . |
| 13 | I usually stand at the shallow end after she 's finished teaching me the floating bit , and watch her have her swim . |
| 14 | I am indebted to Mary Harpley at Reed for sending me a complete set of its Sunday Times Wordpower series . |
| 15 | Startled Bill , 76 , said : ‘ At first I thought what a damned cheek sending me an electric bill . |
| 16 | Thank you for sending me the closing statement for the above account . |
| 17 | The rest depends on Dad getting me a decent horse . ’ |
| 18 | If you can procur [ sic ] me any porters for this , the finest and most perfect work I have yet attempted , you will be doing me a real kindness ; you are aware that neither pains or expense will be spared to render it complete . ’ |
| 19 | Mrs Goreng presented the idea like she was doing me a big favour , giving me the chance to teach the future malai President . |
| 20 | I 'm not asking you to help me , but at least you can let me get on with things instead of badgering me the whole time . |
| 21 | He 's giving me a three-month methadone course , to bring me down gradual … . |
| 22 | All of this is giving me a good opportunity to get up to speed quickly on AEA and the various issues we face . |
| 23 | ‘ I use this for sticking pigs , ’ he said , giving me a mysterious smile , gesturing with the ugly blade across his uncovered throat , then laughing , flicking it shut and thrusting it into a long pocket in the side of his dusty black corduroys . |
| 24 | " Oh , nothing wrong , dear , " she said , giving me a cleared look of total innocence . |
| 25 | Stepping forward to get a firmer grip , I trod on the rake whose handle leapt up , giving me a nasty crack on the brow and a making me stagger , knocking a bottle of systemic insecticide on to the floor , where it shattered and spread a nauseating puddle at my feet . |
| 26 | Until the mishap he was giving me a great feel and I was delighted how he was going in the blinkers . ’ |
| 27 | But the solid Swiss world was no phantom , nor would the solar system cease forging steadily through interstellar space : the sun did swing away from our casement , for all that Mary said , for all our forgetting of time , and the baby awoke and cried ; so that Mary , giving me a langourous look , dressed herself carelessly and went down the stairs . |
| 28 | I was the first person to take him simply as he was , and for that he showed his gratitude by giving me a light kiss on the cheek in the darkened carriage . |
| 29 | The reel screams as line is snatched from the slipping spool and then suddenly everything goes slack , giving me a sinking feeling that the hook hold has failed . |
| 30 | That same day he told me , as if he were giving me a magnificent present , that he thought he could pull strings and have me posted with him . |