Example sentences of "me [adv] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tale that tickled me most concerns a trip to England — a country which Rollins caricatures as a pissing-with-rain hell hole populated entirely by spotty Morrissey-worshipping wimps who eat nothing but fish and potatoes smeared with grease . |
| 2 | The man who had shown me in reached a pewter tankard down from the Welsh dresser and filled it with champagne . |
| 3 | It had me in stitches a lot of the time and definitely was n't just for the kids . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Promise me only to stay a week . ’ |
| 5 | He was shaken , but unhurt , and merely ordered me not to say a word . |
| 6 | Saying this to me was like holding a red rag to a bull : the more anyone told me not to do a thing , the more I tried to do it . |
| 7 | ‘ Promise me not to wear a switch again , ’ he said , after a fool 's pause . |
| 8 | Then I remembered Stephen Roskill telling me not to believe a word Mountbatten said or claimed unless it was corroborated from other sources . |
| 9 | She 's open-minded , and a single parent : maybe that has something to do with it and with me not having a husband it made it easier for her to come in and see me sometimes . |
| 10 | Obviously I ca n't do anything dramatic overnight , due to circumstances , what with my little girl being a ward of court , and me not having a home . |
| 11 | She told me not to make a fuss over such a small thing . |
| 12 | And I 'll see you next , let me just make a note of this , on this form , a green form . |
| 13 | Now let me just have a look at them thank you . |
| 14 | Erm , let me just have a quick look through and see what I 've asked those , definitely . |
| 15 | Erm , let me just have a quick look through and see what I 've asked first , definitely . |
| 16 | Alright , let's look at that , let me just have a little look down here |
| 17 | Let me just have a word with |
| 18 | So let me just say a few things before he does arrive , and catch his breath and perhaps have a cup of tea , on , on a topic which we , it 's not fully listed but I think is worth just mentioning , and that is writing for the press , because it may occur to you and in fact you may yourself on occasions , write things for the press . |
| 19 | Over these erm past couple of weeks we 've been looking at er some of the questions in the New Testament , we thought a couple of weeks back of the question that Jesus asked his disciples , do you think I 'm able to do this and then last week we looked at a question that the disciples put to Jesus , that time when they came down from the mountain and they found the re , three of them came down with Jesus from the mountain of transfiguration and they found the other disciples with a man who and a , whose son was demon possessed and er they had been unable to help him and the man or brings his son to Jesus and Jesus delivers him and afterwards the disciples who had been so helpless put the question to Jesus , why could we not cast out this demon and this morning I 'd like us to look at another question , we 've got another one today and one God willing next week , er and the question is , is found in Luke chapter thirteen , let me just read a few verses , because of course it 's , it 's not just the questions , it 's the answers that are important as well in Luke chapter thirteen , gon na read from verse twenty two it says in Jesus was passing through from one city and village to another , teaching and proceeding on his way to Jerusalem now that gives us a clue in that , because Jesus only ever went to Jerusalem apart from when he was a boy , he only ever went to Jerusalem once and that , after since that time , and that was when he was crucified , so Jesus was now on his way to Jerusalem , it was the latter days , the latter weeks of the life of Jesus , he was making his way now to Jerusalem and someone said to him Lord are there just a few who are being saved and Jesus said to hi , to them , strive to enter by the narrow door for many I tell you will seek to enter and will not be able , once the head of the house gets up and shuts the door and you begin to stand outside and knock on the door saying Lord open to us , then he will answer and say to you I do not know where you are from , then you will begin to say we ate and drank in your presence and you taught in our streets , and he will say I tell you I do not know where you are from , depart from me all you evil doers , there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth there , when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the profits in the kingdom of God , but yourselves being cast out and they will come from East and West and from North and South and will recline at the table in the Kingdom of God , and behold some ar some are last who will be first and some are first who will be last , so it 's just that question then , let's remind ourselves that is put to Jesus Lord are there just a few who are being saved |
| 20 | Let me just take a coffee down to er . |
| 21 | Okay let's get Even though it 's fantastically interesting but er erm let me just get a bit of feedback from . |
| 22 | Of course I accept that ruling entirely Mr Deputy Speaker but the point I was trying to make , I am going to give the speech very briefly indeed I do assure you , is that if you 're trying to assess the numbers er and the correctness of the numbers that are being er er going to vote for and indeed the boundaries associated with those numbers , it 's a perfectly I would have thought , fair question to ask oneself as they go off er from us as to what they are going off in to er and I I do assure you Mr Deputy Speake , I do n't plan to speak more than two minutes , two to three minutes on this matter , I do hope that you will allow me just to make a very brief point on this . |
| 23 | Okay then let me just by way of er introduction er to the concepts and the content of what we 're going to do over the next two days let me just put a very small fraction of a picture up here . |
| 24 | it 's , it 's fair do all together anyway I ca n't see me ever painting a car again |
| 25 | His mouth opened and closed while portraits of notables revolved on some sort of belt contraption behind him and my mind strayed to Phil Collins 's story about the time he went up and asked Steve Davis for an autograph : ‘ He did n't even glance at me , just sent me off to get a pen , and then signed his name , still without looking at me . |
| 26 | She had said , on her first morning with him , ‘ Mrs Kendrick and me always had a cup of coffee together before I got started , nice and friendly like . ’ |
| 27 | Receiving for me always contained a degree of embarrassment that I am only now beginning to come to terms with . |
| 28 | There was a sense of the primeval about the place , and it would not have surprised me unduly to see a pterodactyl alight clumsily , or a dinosaur emerge from behind the rocks . |
| 29 | Friends took me up to have a closer look at it , and I understand the pilot , who was an Australian , managed to bale out and came down safely somewhere near Balder Head . |
| 30 | ‘ They sent me out to do a match report and while I was sitting at a desk typing it up , Captain Bob appeared in the office , attracted by the presence of television cameras . |