Example sentences of "me [adv prt] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ’ You put me on to a good thing , ’ he went on , ’ with Ardakke . |
| 2 | My brother could make me cry just by lifting me on to a five-foot-high garden trellis and leaving me there , so I was hardly a miniature Chris Bonnington . |
| 3 | That 's why I object strongly to the Office 's plugging me in as an Automatic Nurse for one night ! ’ |
| 4 | Now fill me in on a few of these files . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I 've been thinking about Simon , ’ he said , as he began to eat , ‘ and I 'd be grateful if you could fill me in on a few things . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | put me in for a lovely red for me . |
| 8 | They did come in , and it took seven of them to get me down to a single cell . |
| 9 | Well knock me down with a naked Klingon ! |
| 10 | I 'll never even dare to be successful , because when I 'm dead some clod with a thesis to write will put me down as a wild-eyed harridan who jumped on her lover in the street and pulled all his hair out because he 'd gone off with a person with webbed feet . |
| 11 | Marks me down as a prime strategic thinker , and no mistake . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ When I was at drama school , they paired me off with a lovely actor who was only five foot eight and we had to play husband and wife ! |
| 13 | She would have written me off as a time-wasting nut . |
| 14 | The bus letting me off at a convenient corner in the city , I walked to the Sheraton and from a telephone there spoke to Mrs Baudelaire . |
| 15 | ‘ I was hoping Kenny could put me up for a few days until I 'd sorted things out with my parents . |
| 16 | Maybe I 'd better wing out there right away and have them fix me up with a temporary . |
| 17 | Finally , my old friend Alistair Sampson set me up with a cheerful office over his shop in the Brompton Road , where I am gathering stock and beginning life again . |
| 18 | and cleaned me up with a large whitewash brush . |
| 19 | I lit a cigarette , whose first jab doubled me up with an unmufflable bark of outrage from my lungs . |
| 20 | Publication of the essay , presumably in The Criterion , would understandably have hurt Rowse 's feelings ; it might , at the same time , have shown me up as an impertinent upstart . |
| 21 | Some of the theories would have made Balzac blush , but they finally decided I 'd been sleeping with Laura , her husband had beaten me up in a dark alley , and now I was on my way to kill him . |
| 22 | His arrival had jolted me back into a proper appreciation of my problems , which I 'd pushed aside in my enjoyment of Mala 's warmer mood . |
| 23 | ‘ Expect me back in a few minutes , ’ she heard him say distantly . |
| 24 | I do n't know it 's just I think he 's trying to make me out as a bad mother |
| 25 | Eduardo took me out to a nearby restaurant on the Tuesday evening , saying he was too lazy to cook and that he does not often nowadays have any or many chances to take women out ( ! ) , so in return on the Wednesday I got food to make up the rest of a meal using two wild ducks had generously given me to roast , and we had the second one cold on the Thursday after my second meeting . |
| 26 | — Now you shall see , but take this by the way — He came home this Morning at his usual Hour of Four , waken 'd me out of a sweet Dream of something else , by tumbling over the Tea-table , which he broke all to pieces , after his Man and he had rowl 'd about the Room like sick Passengers in a Storm , he comes flounce into Bed , dead as a Salmon into a Fishmonger 's Basket ; his Feet cold as Ice , his Breath hot as a Furnace , and his hands and Face as greasy as his Flanel Night-cap. — O Matrimony ! |
| 27 | ‘ Anyway , ’ she said in what she hoped was a businesslike manner , ‘ I 've come to see if you can help me out on a special job . ’ |
| 28 | Anyone fancy helping me out on a few voodoo dolls dressed in a famous black with blue/orange trim kit ? : - ) |
| 29 | ‘ She 'll sort me out like a good Daily Telegraph lady , ’ Arlott had said when she first came to look after them at Alresford . |
| 30 | I was sure that his status as head of the herd helped me out in an unpleasant encounter . |