Example sentences of "me [prep] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I regarded it with distaste , decided that the rain would have washed it reasonably clean , then dragged it clear of the bog myrtle and looked around me for somewhere to dump it out of sight . |
| 2 | She began to look into alternative methods of treatment — natural remedies , hypnotherapy , etc — and resented me for not participating and not having the right attitude . |
| 3 | Forgive me for not inviting you to remove them with your teeth ! ’ |
| 4 | Antoinette was being a pest , as usual , and Tante Héloise was scolding me for not wanting to play with her . ’ |
| 5 | Excuse me for not writing more as I have to catch up with some sleep and get to a meeting about the course by 10 a.m. tomorrow ! |
| 6 | I ask them to forgive me for not taking interventions . |
| 7 | My friends shook their heads , and chided me for not telling them a story with a happy ending . |
| 8 | ‘ You mean you can forgive me for not telling you about Thomas ? ’ she asked . |
| 9 | Forgive me for not listening ? |
| 10 | I pushed the bloody bitch into it after she had cursed me for not handing over every penny in my pockets ! |
| 11 | ‘ Please forgive me for not remembering you , Georgi Kirov . |
| 12 | Of the many directives gummed to the glass partition , one took the trouble to thank me for not smoking . |
| 13 | ‘ Forgive me for not knowing , ’ Maggie murmured sarcastically , annoyed at this haughty lecture . |
| 14 | ‘ And you see , if you tell him I had n't felt well , he 'd be so cross with me for not waking him up . ’ |
| 15 | The hon. Member for Dundee , East ( Mr. McAllion ) criticised me for not giving a clear commitment to setting up a funding council . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'll say this for old Wix , ’ he went on when the spasm had passed , ‘ though he does n't approve of me for not toting a gun , he 's bloody good to the old man . ’ |
| 17 | Blame me for not preventing it , I dare say . ’ |
| 18 | But I would like you two , forgive me for not saying your names , to put the other two on hold by keying R star 9 . |
| 19 | ‘ You sound just like my old nurse , scolding me for not playing with my cousin whenever she stayed with us . ’ |
| 20 | Please forgive me for not replying to your original letter . |
| 21 | Mr. Kasner 's explanation in his evidence to me for thus acting and accepting the proposal was the following : |
| 22 | It took me for ever to decide on the colour , style and material it was to be made in . |
| 23 | In a review of the first edition of this book , Sara Mills took issue with me for pessimistically implying that linguistic reform is impossible ; she pointed out , and I think with some justice , that my analysis risks leaving women with no way to hit back when they are confronted with sexist language , at least until after the revolution . |
| 24 | She 's got a nerve , banging on at me about not caring . |
| 25 | It was never going to be a career for me but kept me in beer money and taught me about how to deal with the public . ’ |
| 26 | But he does n't have any suggestions to offer me about how to make a man interested in a future beyond a one-night stand . |
| 27 | He 's even accused me of not loving him ! |
| 28 | A job would get me out of the house a lot and provide me with much needed money . |
| 29 | Helen : For some reason I thought of it that they 've given me this monster of a baby that I was n't going to be able to love , and some woman came round — she may have been the hospital social worker or an almoner — and spent about an hour telling me how this was going to completely change the course of my life , I was going to be saddled with this child that would need twenty-four hour care and attention , and I had to think carefully about whether I wanted that for the rest of my life , i.e. was I going to keep him — virtually talking me into not keeping him , and I think the turning-point was that I felt there was something coming from the outside that was , sort of , really trying to urge me to reject him , and that I rebelled against it . |
| 30 | I adopted a pose of cynicism — armour designed to protect me from ever feeling vulnerable again . ’ |