Example sentences of "[v-ing] me [adv] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I suppose you think bringing me home gives you the right to tell me which friends I should choose , do you ? |
| 2 | She kept phoning me up to tell me about Crowded House tickets and that she could n't get any . |
| 3 | But I 've accepted it as fate that people are building me up to knock me down . |
| 4 | I did enjoy our cup of tea together , and thank you for trusting me enough to tell me about your husband 's alcoholism . |
| 5 | Money , of course , was scarce , and to help pay the bills she began to take in lodgers , moving me in to share her bedroom and letting my room and the attic . |
| 6 | He grimaced , but I could see he was not unpleased , though he tried to hide it by marching me off to give his vegetables their evening watering . |
| 7 | ‘ My time was being taken up by people asking me either to find them a folly or a buyer for some extraordinary building , ’ says Gwyn . |
| 8 | And I remember being called to Caernarfon once , during the time , asking me why did I have such a lot of surplus of points . |
| 9 | This may all sound very trivial but it has the effect of making me almost hate my body to the extent that I feel ashamed to let John see me naked . |
| 10 | once and he was showing me how to do it , I could he hardly hit the |
| 11 | And er I was showing it to chap next to me , tall chap , he took a fatherly interest in showing me how to work you know when foreman was out and er ooh he said there 's a bloody Taffy . |
| 12 | The response of the Treasury official upon receiving the nomination , according to the duke , was to ‘ put the presentation in his pocket , desiring me rather to name somebody that might be useful for my interest , for nobody knows this Achterlonie ’ . |
| 13 | Here , Mr Broadhurst broke step again , this time wheeling me around to face him . |
| 14 | Then I 'd wonder why people kept telling me not to take it and conclude that they just wanted to keep it all for themselves . |
| 15 | ‘ Will you stop telling me how to do my job ? ’ |
| 16 | Yeah , who is this oink coming along here telling me how to do my job better . |
| 17 | " Are you telling me how to manage my staff ? " |
| 18 | Yet in the middle years of the Thatcher government , I recall Sir Geoffrey Howe telling me how impressed he was by the number of letters he was receiving , especially from young people , about the crisis in the third world . |