Example sentences of "[subord] [verb] me [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Telling the whole truth about the Ayr salmon , rather than letting me off the hook , only improved the tale . |
| 2 | At the weekends when my Ma and Dad wanted a bit of peace , it was usually easier to send me to bide with Uncle Bill than to take me in the bus to my Uncle Geordie at Dalkeith . |
| 3 | Coombes leaned out of the window and shouted ‘ Come on then , this time ’ as if to pull me off the road . |
| 4 | Kate Melville and Sue d'Argy Smith , whose daughters left the Church , as so many do , just before they became nubile , each took a hand and gave it a sharp pull , and over their heads came the long arms of Gordon the Bachelor , whose fingers stroked my hair , as countless other key personnel in the body of Christendom , South Wimbledon , stroked , shoved , pulled and all but carried me towards the stage on which I was supposed to pour out the secrets of my heart . |
| 5 | He glared up at me as though seeing me for the first time . |
| 6 | I intended the word liberal to mean ‘ free ’ , not as identifying me with the almost defunct Liberal Party of that epoch . |
| 7 | What heartened as well as chastened me about the letter was his wish to see more of my writing . |