Example sentences of "it [verb] [prep] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , let's just say that it 's crossed your mind that maybe , maybe if you stay long enough in this place it 'll get to you in the same way as it got to me . |
| 2 | It got to me . |
| 3 | I 've got first hand experience of this , since the unit Epson provided for review had obviously been in use elsewhere before it got to me , and there was toner flying free from the part-used cartridge . |
| 4 | And God must have heard my prayers , for it passed by me leaving me unharmed . ’ |
| 5 | That 's as far as it goes with me . |
| 6 | Anyway , that 's the way it goes with me , I 'm afraid . |
| 7 | This long boat comes past and I run over so it goes underneath me . |
| 8 | It would be better to say ‘ it thinks in me ’ , like ‘ it rains here ’ . |
| 9 | Russell said that rather than say ‘ I think ’ it would be better to say ‘ It thinks in me ’ , like ‘ It rains here ‘ . |
| 10 | ‘ Otherwise it looks as if it belongs to me . ’ |
| 11 | I have also had it explained to me by other feminists campaigning for equality of treatment of wives under social security laws , that their concern was only with the wives of claimants , not of company directors — thus accepting the DHSS principle that wives should be means tested on their husbands ' resources , regardless of the extent of their access to them . |
| 12 | I can set this cruise control to any speed I want and it drives without me having to touch the accelerator . |
| 13 | I got it given to me so er if you think it 's a different one you can tell me . |
| 14 | And if it lies with me , I will be your last . |
| 15 | Your power is great — and there I am not equal to you — but it lies in me to make you smile , and if you and I never meet , then this play of love remains incomplete . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Is it permitted for me to call you Cara ? ’ he enquired , having just asked that she use his first name . |
| 17 | I will permit it to pass over me and through me . |
| 18 | She said it 's a big , big cut off , if your phone rings you 're out , so of course the phone were ringing , then it went to one in post , no it never , it went first from Ann from Lynnette then to Ann and then it went to Kathy and then it went to erm somebody else and then it come to me but I 've got seven hundred thousand pounds worth of money on my desk that I were banking and Jane had got that job and Jane was on post in cash cos she ai n't got a job cos that thing with them shoes did n't take off and do you know |
| 19 | It bounced before me |
| 20 | Sometimes they see things — people embracing , people dancing , people undressing — and they 're terrified of it happening to me . |
| 21 | Everybody gets phone calls like that , unfortunately occasionally , but it kind of I went through a phase of it happening to me so I therefore had to change my phone number because it was er it was really unpleasant being woken er up by these calls . |
| 22 | I 'd never do that to anybody and I do n't like it happening to me . ’ |
| 23 | And it 's it i Seriously , it has happened a few I in my experience over the years I can remember it happening to me at least half a dozen times . |
| 24 | I saw it happening around me . |
| 25 | It moved over me , full of changing colours . |
| 26 | ‘ Ca n't you get it fixed for me ? ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I had it impressed upon me that my posting to your staff was a matter of strict duty . |
| 28 | After he left it occurred to me that Harrington and Lewis might also find my effort useful , so I took them a copy . |
| 29 | It occurred to me that he might well have heard me and decided not to answer . |
| 30 | It occurred to me that as I had met nobody as I walked through the gate and went upstairs , there was no need to encounter anyone now , going down , and I moved my chair from the window . |