Example sentences of "and [vb -s] me [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You are the only woman I know — apart from Lucy — who wears skirts and dresses and make-up and turns me on more powerful than a monsoon with all the steam and heat … |
| 2 | She strokes my hair and soothes me like a baby . |
| 3 | He follows me down and holds me in his arms . |
| 4 | The man stops , whirls me round and holds me against his chest . |
| 5 | ‘ Till my husband returns , and rescues me from this misery ! ’ |
| 6 | BECAUSE DUDLEY MOORE has been told to turn up at his restaurant at Venice Beach , California at 2.30 pm to tell me his version of the story of his life , then Dudley Moore more or less dudleys into his restaurant at Venice Beach , California and joins me at a corner table where I 've been waiting to hear his story . |
| 7 | He has a weasel face and subjects me to piercing scrutiny . |
| 8 | Before she gets into the car , she turns around and thanks me with a squeeze of her hand . |
| 9 | Discs , managing director Andy McDonald appears immediately I arrive and shows me to his office . |
| 10 | She smilingly explains that the scanner is a sort of lie-down X-ray and leads me to a narrow bed that slides inch by inch through what looks like a dry-cleaning machine . |
| 11 | Rachel touches my arm and leads me into a corner , where we drink our coffees quietly , like strangers at a wake . |
| 12 | After another moment or two , Crilly takes my arm and leads me from the pub . |
| 13 | Crilly takes my arm and leads me from the clinic , onto the green and into the car where Anita sits at the wheel . |
| 14 | He beckons me over and introduces me to Maggie . |
| 15 | Crilly leads me into Perry 's flat and seats me beside him on the orange settee . |
| 16 | It is often impossible to say what moves you in a poem ; somehow in this poem there is something that touches my heart and links me in sympathy to this Bolivian poet whom I shall never meet . |
| 17 | He fluffs my pillow and adorns me with trinkets ; earrings and a flowery jar of perfume called ‘ Fire Maiden ’ . |
| 18 | He climbs back into bed , grabs my breast and nuzzles me in the crook of my neck . |
| 19 | ‘ There was I playing so well even I could n't believe it and along comes this kid and keeps me off the table for three frames ! |
| 20 | I recoil at the strength of his putrid breath and yank myself away , but he grabs my waist and throws me upon the bed , pinning my hands down and forcing himself on top of me . |
| 21 | Crilly grabs my waist roughly and pulls me towards him . |
| 22 | She kisses me softly on the forehead and wraps me in her arms so securely I 'm reminded of my mother . |
| 23 | Isambard has there under his hand a piece of my heart , and draws me by it with cords of custom , and indebtedness , and love , and guilt . |
| 24 | He relaxes and tells me about a new band he is producing . |
| 25 | Crilly wakes and tells me about when he was little and slept in the same room as his father , while his sisters slept with his mother . |
| 26 | Yes , erm I read up quite a lot of things about keeping pests away , but I do n't dad reads them and tells me about them , but I forget cos they have to go back |
| 27 | Sue now weighs 8st 3lbs ( 52 kg ) and tells me in an accompanying letter that her weight loss and subsequent new figure has completely changed her life in every respect . |
| 28 | Ma nods , looks pleadingly and tells me in her love-voice : ‘ She 's only a tiny baby , Jimbo . |
| 29 | I have to dress in my sweaty , dirty clothes and go back down to the kitchen , grumbling while she makes me a coffee , and I complain about my wet boots and she gives me a fresh pair of William 's socks to wear and I put them on and drink my coffee and whine about never being allowed to spend the night and tell her how just once I 'd like to wake up here in the morning , and have a nice , civilised breakfast with her , sitting on the sunny balcony outside the bedroom windows , but she makes me sit down while she laces my boots up , then takes my coffee cup off me and sends me out the back door and says I 've got two minutes before she arms the alarm and puts the infrared lights on stand-by so I have to go back the way I came , over the estate wall and through the wood and down into the stream where I get both feet wet and cold and I fall going up the bank and get all muddy and eventually drag myself up and through the hedge , scratching my cheek and tearing my polo-neck and then trudging across the field through heavy rain and more mud and finally getting to the car and panicking when I ca n't find the car keys before remembering I put them in the button-down back pocket of the jeans for safety instead of the side pocket like I usually do , and then having to put some dead branches under the front wheels because the fucking car 's stuck and finally getting away and home and even in the street light I can see what a mess of the pale upholstery my muddy clothes have made . |
| 30 | He 's very , very clever and he teaches me sums and helps me with my homework . |