Example sentences of "when [pers pn] [verb] me [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aye that was Well that that was on the platform when I got me face burnt and me left hand , which I think was burnt trying to protect me me head or face at the time . |
| 2 | I feared that , but I must always have wanted it too , because when you had me dismissed from that job — Oh , I hated that , I hated not being able to see you any more , but I thought it was you I hated . |
| 3 | ‘ When you catch me eating cottage cheese straight from the fridge at three in the morning ! |
| 4 | Total costs will be in the region of £2,000 — I 'll get firm quotes when you let me know if these specs are OK |
| 5 | When you asked me to undertake a review of the management of the Prison Service , I told you that I thought my recommendations would be easier for me to make than for you to implement , but you assured me you believed the climate was ready for some radical change . |
| 6 | ‘ When you asked me to come into your bedroom my heart was beating so fast I thought it was going to come leaping out ! ’ |
| 7 | Well , it 's a lot better than when you saw me last time ! |
| 8 | ‘ So I watched you for a while , and when you saw me watching , and you looked nervous , as though you thought me a criminal , about to steal all the stock , it amused me to tease you , try and discover why Donal thought you special . |
| 9 | please tell me when you want me to go because |
| 10 | When I was eighteen I came in contact with the Catholic Crusade which was a rather left wing Christian Socialist Organization and I found that their attitude to problems contained the answers for which I had been searching for a good many years tell me when you want me to raise something . |
| 11 | Why should you take her advice when you have me to turn to ? ’ |
| 12 | Do n't bother about taking anything down when you see me shaking my head . ’ |
| 13 | When you invited me to stay here , I did n't realise you planned to collect the rent in kind . |
| 14 | You may have suspected something when you caught me using that heavenly perfume you bought for Mummy 's birthday . |
| 15 | Margaret was nearly out of her mind when she asked me to come out here to look for you , but that 's all in the past now . |
| 16 | I undressed her in her South Kensington hotel room and fucked her , only retreating to the safety of the street outside when she asked me to stay the night so that she could pretend to be my mother . |
| 17 | McAllister , who had put the doll down , and was now fetching out her work basket to embroider pansies on some fine lawn dresses made for the bazaar by the aforesaid ladies , said , ‘ I did n't mean to become involved , you know , but Matey has been so kind to me — when not slave-driving me , you understand — that when she asked me to accompany her I had not the heart to refuse , and strangely , after I began to work for the bazaar , I found that it was most rewarding . ’ |
| 18 | Similarly , when she catches me watering my plants on the balcony we share , she says , ‘ Shame you have n't got a patch to muck about in . ’ |
| 19 | When she hears me come into the room she does n't look round or say ‘ Hello ’ . |
| 20 | In any event , I have no recollection of ever having had any differences with her except on one occasion when she telephoned me to make a request with which I was unable to comply . |
| 21 | My mother was a woman of great piety and orthodoxy ; and when she allowed me to look into her forest depths I found them good . |
| 22 | ‘ I have held my hand time and again , and even when they drove me to act I have abated my askings to keep the balance true and save Wales from worse enmity . |
| 23 | Some of the men , when they saw me looking at them , smiled shyly , and as if automatically scratched their swollen codpieces . |
| 24 | I heaped much obscene verbal abuse on various owners to the extent that several begin to leash in their ugly mutts when they saw me coming . |
| 25 | I 'm frank and candid by nature and so perhaps not surprisingly my career was blocked , former friends learned to cross the street when they saw me coming and I quickly became a non-person ; a communist speciality . |
| 26 | People had gone up to a house and been knocking on the door waiting for someone to come because the light had come on and they thought there must be somebody in because they switched the light on when they saw me come up the drive , and these are visitors . |
| 27 | But when they saw me walking out of the sea , they welcomed me warmly with cries of astonishment and delight . |
| 28 | When they saw me winning , the clubhouse went crazy with people cheering and whooping . |
| 29 | The 44-year-old composer said : ‘ When they let me know they could not afford to pay more than £6 million , I realised we had to step in to save it for the nation . |
| 30 | Think how scandalous that would be , McAllister , when they find me starved to death outside your door on the top landing . |