Example sentences of "[v-ing] me [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Bless you for helping me out with the Watsons . |
| 2 | They 'll be easing me on as the new presenter so as not to put too much pressure on me . |
| 3 | They pulled me up off the floor with my hands up behind my back and they were walking me out of the chemist with my arms up and my head pushed down and one of them was kicking me in the back of my legs to get me over to the car . |
| 4 | On one memorable occasion , Mac came to one of the dances and spent a lot of time with me , even escorting me back to the Waaf site afterwards , making intelligent conversation about his home in Canada and shaking hands gravely as he said goodnight — so different from the smash and grab tactics I was usually treated to when trying to bring an evening to a satisfactory close . |
| 5 | Pink and blue drifted away , leaving green to chat for a few minutes — ‘ I jest lerved those cute red heels and hose you 'rived in ’ — before escorting me back to the changing room on the floor above . |
| 6 | It is urging me on over the years bidding me neglect those that were without Cathenne , where as I set out to tell the story of my life , the dull with the bright , the gray with the green , all the Sundays Mondays and Tuesdays of it at least sufficiently to suggest them . |
| 7 | That 's right , it 's just that I worked , I think , yesterday I could n't get into erm , I just could n't get into and yesterday I must admit I felt really rough and erm , I thought at three o'clock I was going to have to ring Iris , cos I knew you were still out you see and at three o'clock I thought I was going to have to ring Iris er just to come in cos I ca n't like your head was my stomach was churning over , it was n't till , soon as I get some food in front of me oh I get , you see I did n't feel too cracking in the morning and I thought well there 's lots of stomach bugs going about and I thought well I 'm having one of them , and I did n't know what I fancied for lunch and I cooked the kiddies theirs , they had fish and what have you , and erm , I thought well what can I have , I thought I what , I thought I got a little tin of salmon there , so I thought right I 'll have a salmon sandwich and I had that and believe me I felt , by three o'clock I could see myself picking me up off the floor , I only got spots before my eyes as such , but , I just had , I had four , five cups of water , I did n't drink any tea , and I wish then , well I do n't know whether I could have felt any worse when I had the sandwich or not to be honest . |
| 8 | I used to say it was like people waking me up in the morning and throwing money in through my bedroom window . |
| 9 | my dad this morning he woke me up by pulling me up by the hair , bashing my face into the pillow a couple of times , I just looked at , then go , and I looked at him |
| 10 | A great mammoth of an American truck went thundering past , forcing me on to the dirt shoulder . |
| 11 | ‘ She tried kicking me out of the classroom . |
| 12 | I would normally do the PM first thing tomorrow but they are n't expecting me back at the hospital until Monday and the PM room is tied up until the afternoon . |
| 13 | But I was awoken from my daydreaming by her calling me over to the large chest which stood beneath the window . |
| 14 | Andy yelled , throwing the keys down and grabbing me by the collar and slamming me back against the side of the Landie . |
| 15 | ‘ They wasted no time in getting me up to the theatre , and after making the General promise not to take my arm off I gave a running commentary as the ether took effect . |
| 16 | It 's been really getting me down for the last four seasons — I 've been running disgustingly . |
| 17 | In a kindly voice ( for which , later , he felt like smacking her ) , she said , ‘ I think you are mixing me up with the child our mother had in the late 1930s . ’ |
| 18 | The door closed firmly , shutting me out from the warmth inside . |
| 19 | Well , now that I 've tracked you down , perhaps you would n't mind letting me in on the key to all this mystery . |
| 20 | He made the mistake of letting me in on the ground floor when he was offering a Pissarro . |
| 21 | and she 's been letting me off for the keep . |
| 22 | By the third morning , however , I was so weak and the pain so unbearable that they had little difficulty in taking me up to the theatre and performing the necessary operation . |
| 23 | I managed some breakfast , met up with Colin 's coach Malcolm Arnold who was taking me down to the track , and we walked in the sunshine to where the buses waited to run the shuttle to the Olympic Stadium . |
| 24 | A miserably dull , windy and cold Saturday morning beckoned for the last of my Island days and Ewen very kindly had given up his spare time to run me around the Stornoway locality before dropping me off at the airport . |
| 25 | I got Bunny out of the pub just before chucking-out time and with a bit of persuasion he agreed to take me as far as Hackney , dropping me off at the end of Stuart Street . |
| 26 | Makes me look a right cunt dragging me out of the shop let alone . |
| 27 | Scamp turned to reach down into one of the boxes of groceries that were scattered over the floor but I did n't see what he was after as Nevil was lifting me up by the shoulders . |
| 28 | ‘ In very strong winds I ca n't prevent the sail from lifting me out of the water . ’ |
| 29 | The DHSS were playing me up over the removal grant , so one of my sons went up to the house to see if there were any letters — everything had been smashed , crocks were smashed and the beds were slashed . |
| 30 | The drinks came and Ward sat back , watching me out of the corner of his eye . |