Example sentences of "he [adv] [verb] me [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | There 's a power cut ; the lights go out and we light candles and gas lamps and end up — a hard core of seven of us ; Andy , me , Howie , another two local lads and a couple of the traveller boys — down in the snooker room where there 's a beat-up looking table and a leak in the ceiling that turns the whole of the stained , green-baize surface into a millimetre-shallow marsh , water dripping from each pocket and dribbling down the bulky legs to the sopping carpet , and we play snooker by the light of the hissing gas lamps , having to hit the white ball really hard even for delicate shots because of the extra rolling resistance the water causes , and the balls make a zizzing , ripping noise as they race across the table and sometimes you can see spray curving up behind them and I 'm feeling really drunk and a bit stoned from a couple of strong Js smoked out in the garden earlier with the travellers but I think this dimly lit water-hazard snooker is just hilarious and I 'm laughing maniacally at it all and I put an arm round Andy 's neck at one point and say , You know I love you , old buddy , and is n't friendship and love what 's it 's really all about ? and why ca n't people just see that and just be nice to each other ? except there are just so many complete bastards in the world , but Andy just shakes his head and I try to kiss him and he gently fends me off and steadies me against one wall and props me up with a snooker cue against my chest and I think this is really funny for some reason and laugh so much I fall over and have distinct problems getting up again and get carried to my room by Andy and one of the travellers and dumped on the bed and fall instantly asleep . |
2 | He was also possessive ; he only allowed me out twice a week — Wednesday 's Youth Club and Thursday 's Sally Carmichael 's dancing class — and accompanied me to both ( pity he did n't come to the Cricket Lover 's Ball ) . |
3 | And I took it to my bank manager who I 'd been with for God knows , all my life , so nearly twenty years , and er he just laughed me straight out of the room . |
4 | I tried to stop him , but he just knocked me down . |
5 | ‘ He just dropped me off , ’ she said . |
6 | He just wiped me out . ’ |
7 | I tried to explain to Drew , but he just sent me off . ’ |
8 | He just waved me through . |
9 | He just chatted me up . |
10 | I 'll tell him or anyone , and I meant it , so he started on about this night at the bowling club , but it was his actions Joy , I want to know who 's coming , we need to know , I thought but why 's he fucking boss me about on my private time , anyway to cut a long story short they booked all this night out and I watched and I waited I thought let them clock that I 'm not going , so then comes a phone call , David was in the bottom office so was the letter shark , and this phone call came over and David shouted up to all of us on the machine who 's going on Thursday night ? |
11 | ‘ I flared up at him right off And I told him rd flay him if he ever sought me out again . ’ |
12 | He still calls me up now and again . |
13 | Leaning forward in the rattan chair , on the after deck , he said , ‘ I tell you , Doctor ’ — he always addressed me thus , showing the respect of one professional man for another ‘ in over thirty years at sea I 've become a specialist in islands . |
14 | White blurs passed around us and coloured pills stuck in my throat but , from time to time , I saw a man in a room on my own and he always asked me how I was feeling . |
15 | He always intimidates me hugely . |
16 | ‘ He saw commercial reps and talked to customers but he always called me in before he put in an order or gave an estimate . ’ |
17 | Yeah , and he always writes me out a couple and I ai n't got the money . |
18 | He gruffly shoved me out of line , too busy to fool with a silly kid who could barely understand English . |
19 | I ONCE mentioned to a local farmer that my grandfather had been born in the little fishing village of Staxigoe , to the north of Wick in Caithness , and he quickly warned me not to go about repeating the story , because of the supposedly dubious reputation the natives of Staxigoe have earned themselves down the ages . |
20 | I remember he once told me not to move the head too much as it weighs 22lbs . |
21 | He once told me not to be afraid as my death was many years off and would come in a way I least expected . |
22 | He also struck me as wholly sincere and a very decent sort . |
23 | He was direct and helpful , but he also steered me away from his personal life . |
24 | Now she thinks , not his cock but his tongue , I should have cut his tongue out with them , his slow quicksilver tongue ; for he partly took me backwards out of my joy , into an old timidity that 's there still ; and it 's made a meal of me sometimes teaching , when the sharper ones have had me squirming for my lazy luck . |
25 | He nearly finished me off , as well , last night . |
26 | He nearly caught me out with his C. S. Lewis , but I had him sewn up like a kipper with my Hermann Hesse . |
27 | He 'd watch them quietly ; and he often told me how he had a good idea where they 'd been taking their honey : if they came to their hives low , they 'd most likely have come off a field of clover . |
28 | He often got me out of bed , late on an evening , to run an errand . |
29 | The nicest thing about my dad is that he often takes me along to work with him . |
30 | Words were n't his natural medium , but these days , when I went to help out in the shop , he inevitably took me aside — blackmailing me with samosas , sherbet fountains and the opportunity not to work — for an extended ear-bashing . |