Example sentences of "[vb mod] [vb infin] [verb] me [adv prt] " in BNC.

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1 You should 've phoned me up .
2 Well you should have invited me round and I could have been the guy .
3 I thought he must have stood me up … backed out at the last minute …
4 They knocked me around and I blacked out , then they must have locked me up in here .
5 By the time he took to do his business , the bank 's video cameras must have had me down as a fairly suspicious character and I was happy to stop fidgeting when he finally turned away from the cashier and headed for the door .
6 Cotten of the Inquirer must have helped me out , because every file was complete with news clippings and candid photographs .
7 I caught the rollerskating bit but am afraid the rest of it must have passed me by .
8 Then you must start pulling me up .
9 She measures out her guarded replies to him in neat , carefully checked words , as once she had suggested , from the top of the steps outside their front door , that Millie might like to invite me in for a few minutes .
10 Then : ‘ You 'll have to let me out for the Jubilee .
11 Any road , you 'll have to carry me out of here feet first , I reckon . "
12 " You 'll have to back me up ; you 've no choice now that you have an heir to consider .
13 And if he wants to get rid of me he 'll have to throw me out . ’
14 ‘ You 'll have to count me out tonight , my friend .
15 So you 'll have to count me out of your calculations , I 'm afraid .
16 ‘ If this is some kind of guessing game you 'll have to count me out .
17 Well I 've got to take his over now , he 'll have to bring me back .
18 One day , he 'll try to take me out , you know .
19 ‘ You might have noticed me around .
20 ‘ I thought you might have written me off as a crackpot after my performance this morning . ’
21 She might have put me down for talking .
22 We snatched opportunities when we could , when my children were staying with friends or even , once , and extra dangerously , when they were asleep ( though the fear that one of them might wake put me off so I did n't try that again ) .
23 Well I was gon na say you could 've dropped me off at grandma 's .
24 ‘ I 'm telling you , ’ she said , ‘ when I heard that big clock in the hall striking the five , you could 've knocked me down with a feather !
25 Anyway , I found out 'oo it was , you could 've knocked me down wiv a fevver .
26 You could 've knocked me down with a feather when they tol ’ me . ’
27 Anyway , I found out 'oo it was , you could 've knocked me down wiv a fevver .
28 He 'd like to shut me up in a box for the next two years .
29 I do n't know , chuckin' me clothes in the dustbin , I suppose you 'd like to chuck me in as well .
30 ‘ Well , you could stop picking me up in that van .
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