Example sentences of "and [adv] [verb] me [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was terrified that if I criticized him he would take offence and leave me , if not permanently , then for a few days , without giving me a sign of life , and so leaving me in anguish . |
| 2 | Perhaps that was one of the reasons which prompted my father to teach me to read , and so divert me from my inexorable pursuit of my mother . |
| 3 | I do n't think a person told I do n't think a person told to apologize is n't rea really an apology so I think there must be a reason why you did n't and so told me on Sunday why you did n't . |
| 4 | ‘ It was quite usual for me to take on this sort of job but it was n't usual for him to make an appointment for me and only tell me at the last minute , especially when it meant working after hours . |
| 5 | and only stuck me on the payroll |
| 6 | By the time I was thirteen I already had a 36-inch bust , and during games lessons other girls would snigger , make remarks , and generally treat me like an abnormality . |
| 7 | I was dead happy there and then , all of a sudden , they came one day and just moved me to another home . |
| 8 | And my people , the men and maidservants who came running , he confined as you see , each in a glass bottle , and finally closed me into the glass coffin in which you found me . |
| 9 | I meet an eager mob of fifty Class 2 children in Swaziland and a large lady who had taught every single one of them to read , determined collectively and individually to hold me in the classroom until they have proved it true . |
| 10 | She had a soft voice and always put me at my ease . |
| 11 | He accepted my apologies for my appearance and quickly put me at ease , saying he had been a close friend of my father and was delighted to meet his son . |
| 12 | Eileen herself is very friendly and down-to-earth and quickly puts me at ease . |
| 13 | His first day in 1924 watching his county , Sussex , convinced him that there is no greater moment than a big hit : ‘ As I walked into the ground a ball came bouncing off the Town Hall roof and nearly hit me on the head . |
| 14 | ‘ Lots of people at school have commented on it and now associate me with Tory party propaganda . |
| 15 | I 'm in London I 'm in the nick I 'm in fucking Paddington Green for Christ 's sake , the high-security station they use for the Provos and they think I 'm so dangerous so much a security risk they 've got me here and even holding me under the Prevention of Terrorism Act Jesus God because some of them still are n't convinced they are n't dealing with some unholy alliance of the IRA , Welsh Nationalists and uppity jocks . |
| 16 | they come up knocking at my door asking me to teach them boxing and even stopping me on the street . |
| 17 | I did not regard Harold Wilson as a wit , nor was his conversation particularly spiced with humour , but it was immensely interesting because he would talk to me about his problems and their supposed solutions , and seemingly consult me on the matter — he was a very polite man — although I was conscious that on most political issues my own opinion was pretty well valueless and he recognised that . |
| 18 | ‘ Its note is a loud ringing and very peculiar sound , somewhat resembling the worlds Clink , clink , several times repeated , and strongly reminded me of the distant sound of the stroke on a blacksmith 's anvil , and hence the term ‘ arguta ’ appeared to me to be an appropriate specific appellation for this new species . ’ |
| 19 | Please help me to know that transforming power of your Holy Spirit to overcome these difficulties , and please forgive me for all that has been wrong and selfish in what I have said , thought and done . |
| 20 | ‘ And please forgive me for butting in on you like this . |
| 21 | He rose and absentmindedly patted me on the shoulder . |
| 22 | He also found two more lumps in my groin and immediately booked me into the Princess Grace Hospital for the biopsy I had five days ago . |
| 23 | I was there on my own , because the Yorkshire Television film crew had been positioned on the roof of the Palace , and would have been quite at a loss but a lady from the Yorkshire Post spotted me and kindly accompanied me for a little while . |
| 24 | The women who were working there looked at me in a kind curious way at first and then took me for granted . |
| 25 | Towsie ( nickname for one of the foreign miners ) came and sat down beside me while the smoke cleared a bit , and then took me to the trench , which was full of red embers , roasting the rock as when you roast eggs in the ashes . |
| 26 | And she says her day with Becky and the team was a revelation : ‘ The Granada Reports people came to my house to film me in some of my own clothes and then took me to the Hillcrest Hotel in Widnes where I had my hair styled and my make-up done , and then tried on lots of different outfits . |
| 27 | Do you think you could pull me up and then point me in an easterly direction once we 're outside ? |
| 28 | They hugged each other , and then taking me by the hand we went into the street and made our way home . |
| 29 | Charles , her husband , jokes all the time about what I 'm wearing , insists that I join them for formal dinners late at night , and then teases me throughout them because I 've never eaten squid before , and I do n't know what haggis is made of . |
| 30 | All you had to do was to hold up the negotiations until I got desperate and then bully me into authorizing the Japanese deal on the pretext of raising money to pay for my release ! |