Example sentences of "me [prep] one [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd had enough middle-aged men slobbering all over me for one day . |
| 2 | ‘ Excuse me for one minute . ’ |
| 3 | to last me for one month , because we 've got to put it on . |
| 4 | And I was not averse to fighting with any boy who challenged me for one reason or another . |
| 5 | Well yes since leaving college yes it 's been predominantly figurative and I always take my subject matter from things that I 've seen which have interested me for one reason or another . |
| 6 | So tomorrow at two o'clock Miss Trunchbull will be taking over from me for one lesson . |
| 7 | Jack Kinley told me about one case . |
| 8 | But can you please advise me about one thing ? |
| 9 | Opening the car door , the boy took my hand to lead me towards one side of a three-sided , bungalow-styled villa . |
| 10 | He told me of one case he had had of a woman in her early twenties . |
| 11 | Bill 's story has finally convinced me of one thing — the nature of Mandy Smith 's ‘ mystery illness ’ . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He claimed one Bf109 shot down , but recorded of his own aircraft in his logbook : ‘ Left me with one strand of rudder wire . ’ |
| 14 | Would you like to help me with one slice ? |
| 15 | ‘ You have left me with one feeling-hate … and with one wish — to destroy your happiness . |
| 16 | And here 's me with one eye and here 's I could fucking see our William , here 's me round the back then me I 'm away in here to waken up , fuck ten past seven |
| 17 | He then grabbed me with one hand and grabbed my steering wheel with the other . |
| 18 | ‘ I have three or four : two black Strats , a Les Paul Junior with a neck-through-body — really heavy guitar , sustains really well — a Flying V that they built me with one pickup — neck-through-body also — and a regular Flying V. ’ |
| 19 | Whether my knowledge that I shall some day die , that a nuclear war is likely sooner or later , that alcohol will kill me , that another person is suffering , does move me in one direction or another , depends on the extent of my disposition to take these things into account in choices , on awareness which may spontaneously vary from one moment to the next and be sustainable only by an effort of will . |
| 20 | He somehow nails me , pins me , centres me in one spot like a butterfly spread for inspection , wonderful , beautiful ; he steadies me . |
| 21 | They were continual concrete evidence of the sleight of hand which had conjured me from one world to another . |
| 22 | It was a tool to help me from one point of safety to another ; it carried not only the tent , camping equipment , and food , but the weightiest item of all , water . |
| 23 | Fresh from the indulgence of driving the fastest and most powerful Jaguar saloon ever built over several hundred kilometres of demanding roads , I was about to set off on a journey that would take me from one end of Europe to the other . |
| 24 | It was a journey that would also take me from one extreme of the Ford range , the £46,600 Jaguar V12 saloon , to the other — £6,855 of Fiesta 1.1L . |
| 25 | Then Romano took me to one side — my father was sitting at his desk — and told me that I had a great future in front of me and that people would be prepared to sell property to the Damianis . |
| 26 | Just as we were about to leave , Frank Dick called me to one side and gave me a blistering reprimand . |
| 27 | An' wait , ’ she muttered irritably , pushing me to one side . |
| 28 | He was always taking me to one side , telling me what I should and should n't do . |
| 29 | Before they left , she took me to one side . |
| 30 | The very first film I made with Roy he took me to one side and he said ’ you 've been working a lot in the theatre and you 're playing to the back row of the the dress circle which is right for the theatre . ’ |