Example sentences of "the [noun] [verb] me [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Souness had the opportunity to sell me and he took it . |
| 2 | On seeing my person , he took the opportunity to inform me that he had just that moment finalized plans to return to the United States for a period of five weeks between August and September . |
| 3 | He gave others the opportunity to pass me and I was really upset . |
| 4 | ‘ On a personal note , in 1991 when the Board nominated me and the shareholders elected me to the chairmanship , I indicated that I would serve in this capacity for two years and oversee the rationalisation and turnaround of the Waterford and Wedgwood businesses . |
| 5 | The midwife examined me and said , ‘ If we go now — and I mean now — we 'll get to the hospital in time … |
| 6 | You imagine this war gives you the excuse to disobey me and do exactly as you wish . |
| 7 | The story quotes me as saying of the Rousseau painting in question , that its ‘ present whereabouts ( are ) unknown ’ . |
| 8 | The authorities grabbed me and took me away . |
| 9 | The cops saw me where they thought I should n't be , so they got curious . |
| 10 | Yet when I take a taxi back to the club , the driver tells me that the Indians will be getting it in the neck soon . |
| 11 | When we neared the outskirts of Donegal Town , the driver told me that the former maid suspected young Mulverin of pillaging the Big House for building material . |
| 12 | But the assessment suited me because much of it depended on riding an exercise bike and I do a lot of cycling . ’ |
| 13 | One of the survivors told me that her mother " never worked " , but it later emerged that she did go out to clean offices . |
| 14 | Shortly after Vitalis finished his course , a teacher in one of the schools told me that he wanted to get married in Church . |
| 15 | ‘ I took a lot of stick from the press , ’ said the England Under-21 player , ‘ but the lads backed me and so did the manager . |
| 16 | ‘ When I reached eight tries I realised I was in with a chance of records and the lads helped me as best they could . ’ |
| 17 | That was because P C firearm , his revolver was still in the holster because he was carrying the shield and it was only as er I started to move forward that P C er came up to the the doorway to cover me whilst I went forward . |
| 18 | And there was a lot of space between the hut and the door and the wind took me and flung me right up against the tank and I went down to the ground and crawled on me hands and knees . |
| 19 | Such studies resound with heartfelt quotations : ‘ I like to hear the sound of voices in the house ’ ; ‘ The programme reminds me that I could be worse off than I am ’ ; ‘ It sometimes helps me to understand my own life ’ ( McQuail , 1972 ) . |
| 20 | The Countess told me that on arrival at the hospital after his death , she spent half an hour alone , sitting by his bed , just talking to him . |
| 21 | The position at the moment is that the defendant tells me he would like to acquire the premises because erm a low criticism has , was made of the premises as being suitable for the carry on of the doctors surgery in partner , a doctor 's surgery in partnership because no doubt the space and other matters , er the defendant tells me that erm they are perfectly suitable for as it were a sole petitioner to carry on his practice from them and that is why he would like to acquire it . |
| 22 | The Crickets told me that they enjoyed the show . |
| 23 | And you know yesterday she had the nerve to ask me if she could sit at the end of our table . |
| 24 | The brothers told me that they owned a remote and beautiful beach which had recently been colonised by hippies living in crevices among the rocks . |
| 25 | In his last message the monster told me that he was going north . |
| 26 | The pure white drifts of snow against the door of the hut convinced me that nobody had been that way recently . |
| 27 | ‘ The shop-owner rang me and said she would n't move until I had found her a house , ’ she explained . |
| 28 | So we left and the boss told me that how he would work it out and how it would take probably something in the order of two thirds of that particular van that w we were going to use , if it was packed about six foot high . |
| 29 | Before the examination , one of the commissioners told me that I would not be one of the winners because the positions had already been assigned to others who were , for the most part , assistants to the various commission members . |
| 30 | The co-ordinator told me that many people who had come to therapy groups for anxieties or depressions were now volunteer workers . |