Example sentences of "[vb -s] me [adv] [prep] [det] " in BNC.

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1	I think touches on er the thing that concerns me most about this
2	I 'll tell you , Crilly , about my first trip to Scotland and the men in chip shops who call you ‘ Hen ’ and the lads wearing green Celtic scarves at lunchtime and broad pointy-horned cattle and graveyards macabre with the tilting of tombstones caked with moss and weeds , sheep grazing and weaving amongst them , and a coastal fishing town in Harris where a night sky shimmers only to itself and I am without friends from , the real world and I listen only for the sound of the tin whistle while the boats rock gently in the jetty and the sky rages from beige to black and craggy mountains dart until forever and a fisherman stands , stunning and alone , strong and unnamed , and leads me slowly into that everchanging sea .
3	She said this with a certain violence , and Clara 's attention quickened , for she thought she was about to witness the emergence of one of the buried conflicts of which she had heard so much : but Mrs Denham said quickly , " For goodness sake , Clelia , you know how good it is for me to have James around , it takes me back to those lovely days when you were all so small and docile . "
4	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 .
5	Why somebody lets me down like that .
6	Scents are too evocative and the merest whiff jerks me back to that first night away from my wife , and to the feeling I had then .
7	‘ I do n't make trouble , it just follows me around like some dog in the street . ’
8	She reminds me more of All Souls ’ Eve than Christmas .
9	Beaming , he waves me off into another wintry shower .
10	We will see if time proves me wrong on this one ’ .
11	One can fly for less than that in the USA , which brings me back to that vexed question .
12	Which brings me back to that word — discretion .

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