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Example sentences of "[to-vb] me [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	Perhaps there was someone behind me who was just about to hit me over the head .
2	‘ Do n't worry … you can sleep alone — I can take a hint that I 'm not wanted without you having to hit me over the head with it , ’ he finished bitterly .
3	They were prepared to hit me on the head , were n't they ? ’
4	For a moment , I thought he was going to hit me with the shoe ; then he dropped it on the floor and began to pull at my clothes .
5	Anyway today we had the scene where Matt had to hit me with the paddle sort of semi-accidentally .
6	If you want to hit me across the airport , I 'll understand , OK , but I 'm staying with Alejandro .
7	All the same I felt a twinge of unease as he came to greet me in the bar of the Atlantic Hotel in Hamburg , an admiral now and much older , hobbling a little and holding a stick .
8	Wilson 's Cabinet — jealous of a non-political and non-party intruder — had decided not to include me in the team .
9	‘ I buy enough marmalade at local fayres to see me through the year .
10	I was on my way to Glen Nevis with enough gear to see me through the night .
11	Right , as soon as we 've done this then we 'll have to go and have a , you can have a bath and mummy can have a shower because I 've got a lady coming to see me about a job .
12	Oh , and Frank wanted to see me about the car .
13	Elizabeth : Elizabeth , a young woman who lives with her sister in a remote and primitive cottage in the Welsh mountains , came to see me about an infestation of scabies .
14	I 've been a candidate before , I do n't like to do things badly , since coming into politics I do n't think I have done things badly , I do n't want to fail you and I do n't want you to see me as a failure .
15	You 're about as pleased to see me as a peasant is to meet the tax-gatherer ! ’
16	The Jungle Book was not mentioned again by any of them , as if they were n't ready to see me as an actor but preferred me in my old role as a useless boy .
17	Sometime around the middle of the week , Dr MacLennan was allowed to see me for a while , after Diggs overruled my father 's refusal to have me medically inspected by anybody else but him .
18	Then , when they came in , he came up to see me for a bit . ’
19	For myself , I wish to say to men that as long as they associate me with an idea of ‘ woman ’ drawn from the past , or suppose that a model for gender relations is to be found in that past , they have failed to see me for the person who I am , or to envisage what equality might mean .
20	I could tell Gillian and Stuart were n't thrilled to see me at the airport .
21	So er I thought a alright then , so I I went off like and I just heard erm and said , I went up to see her mother like and , I told her mother about it , like and that and erm her mother says different now , that she came round to see me at the time to tell , to give me a telling off like over her friend .
22	‘ You 're about as grown up as … as Just William , with all this leering , these smutty innuendoes , just because you happened to see me with no clothes on ! ’
23	I asked her to come to see me on the day after her arrival and at the hour of sunset , the best time for the wonderful view that I then had to offer her .
24	See , she came to see me on the bridge . ’
25	So it was just My mother used to see me across the road with my shilling to pay for my pinny .
26	He came to see me after the performance — several times , in fact . ’
27	Oddly enough , I did n't happen to be in my room again when Terry Wogan came to see me before the show on the second occasion .
28	Come to see me in a fortnight .
29	All the crew liked and even obeyed Silver , and he was always pleased to see me in the kitchen , which he kept as clean as a new pin .
30	Camino came to see me in the bank and asked if the village girls would be prepared to collect food and take it on their bicycles to the prisoners .