Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] [verb] me [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We have both learnt our dialectic in the academic arena where knocks that would frighten the London literary coteries are given and taken in good part ; and even where you think me sometimes too pert you will not suspect me of malice . |
| 2 | Immediately she asked me when I might be free , but I was able to murmur , ‘ It 's a little difficult , Mrs Fawcett , until I get around a bit more and establish some duty rosters . ’ |
| 3 | After a couple of days , me and me mother were n't getting on , so she hoyed me out . |
| 4 | It occurred to Mrs Hobbs , so she told me later , but she said nothing to me then . |
| 5 | Well , that did n't mean a thing to me , so she took me out next day to the Champs Elysée , into a very expensive shop . |
| 6 | He said they 're gon na fetch it so you tell me where I can go and then I 'll make sure that the kids do n't go . |
| 7 | ‘ So you dragged me off to Ghar Hasan … ? ’ she whispered shakily . |
| 8 | ‘ So you want me in just for the plaster and to give your student laddies additional geriatric experience ? |
| 9 | ‘ So you understand me better than I understand myself . |
| 10 | Once she showed me how to fold one to make a club . |
| 11 | Apparently I 'd chosen to pee up against a police station , so they took me inside , and told me off , and of course I apologized . |
| 12 | They analysed it and found that it was mud , a piece of clay , y'know , but them not being all-forgiving , they suspected that I was using drugs , y'know , so they kicked me out of home and I went to live with my grandmother and then I had more freedom there to do as I pleased and hence started going to pop festivals and things and enjoying them and getting off on them and mixing with that whole subculture if you like . |
| 13 | My grandad was a barber and my mother was a hairdresser so they taught me how to cut hair and it came in very useful , especially when I did National Service . |
| 14 | Yeah called me in two days so they gave me today and tomorrow off as well , so it 's sort of gone longer than I expected you know ? |
| 15 | But I did not perk up , so they carted me back indoors and called the doctor once more . |
| 16 | ‘ I told the people around me that I wanted to quit , so they flew me back home to see a doctor . |
| 17 | Treat it as junk and throw it away although it cost me more than fifty four . |
| 18 | The police came within half an hour and the officer was sympathetic although he advised me not to expect the thieves to be caught . |
| 19 | If Father were to hear them he 'd whip me out of that place much quicker than he pushed me in , I can tell you . |
| 20 | ‘ I told him I was training with Guisborough that evening , so he met me up there and a deal was sorted out . |
| 21 | So I said , ‘ Look , I just do n't want it , ’ so he tells me not to be so clever . |
| 22 | driver for me on the phone , so he calls me up , oh we 've got load of them he said |
| 23 | Oh yes it 's , it 's been changed a lot and a , and er , it 's made such a difference and I 've met er , I 've got a er fr a very good friend who 's , who 's a Red Cross young man who I met at Leah Manning and he takes me out in the car which I would n't , never get out otherwise because my boys are all working you see they ca n't , they 're busy working and erm do shift work and security work , one 's got his own security business and the other one 's got a factory in Bishop 's Stortford so that they do n't get much chance , they work away , some of them do that they can not get to take me out see , so he takes me out , which he 's very , very good you know , he 's , yesterday he took me to erm , yesterday we , he took me to Ongar to see his sister in the bungalow and then he took me for a meal at erm The Chariot at er , at Brentwood , Brentwood , yes Brentwood The Chariot , it was quite nice I had rather , a good time , erm cos usually I ca n't get out unless I go out in the wheelchair you see I 'm confined to a wheelchair , though I struggle out into the kitchen with me two sticks and I 've got a stool in there that I do all my own cooking and I make cakes and that and I 'm doing a cake gon na make a cake for Christmas for me brother and make a cake , er another one for myself like , but , and then I go to my erm daughter-in-law 's to spend Christmas Day and then I , I 'm going to my son 's and spend Boxing Day which is my birthday , I 'll be seventy four on Boxing Day I 'm dreaded to say , yeah , but erm , this young man that takes me lives in Northbrooks , he 's er a widower , but he 's very , very good , he helps all us old people , you know , he 's ever so good he is to me , he comes up and brings my shopping today , does my shopping for me as well , so , well he 's , yes , he 's most kind , for , nearly two years I 've know him , that 's a photo over there , it was taken at a wedding look , of my , that 's it , over there , taken at a wedding dear , very good |
| 24 | Erm I felt really organized cos Mr said that I was too hyperactive and I needed to have , I had to do something constructive so he sent me out posting well giving everyone their letters and I felt really I mean he did n't do it nastily , he just said I was flitting about and needed something to do and so it was really fun . |
| 25 | ‘ Oh , no ’ — so he ticked me off there and then instead . |
| 26 | Why , once he looked me right in the face and sneered . |
| 27 | It was a bit slow , but then I think slowly , so it suited me quite well . |
| 28 | We behaved this way in days of old empire so it surprises me not at all that Japan may now buy The Belfry , of Ryder Cup fame . |
| 29 | Silence , and then , ‘ We need one another , and I shall sit here until you let me in . |
| 30 | ‘ I 'm going nowhere until you tell me why you 're here . ’ |