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Example sentences of "[verb] me [be] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	One thing that doing the talk show has taught me is that people hear what they expect to hear .
2	But one thing prison 's taught me is to be very strong , and that I am a worthwhile person .
3	‘ One thing these workless weeks in Venice have taught me is that I need my profession .
4	One thing all that experience with women has taught me is how long it takes them to get dressed .
5	The Americans tried to do it in Panama , what disgusts me is that these are the pictures that sold , the ones done when there was no more opposition .
6	Even worse , you would tell me about new poems you had started to write , and it was like a dagger in my heart when you described working on them without my help — though the real reason you had come back to see me was to labour over them with me , adding my suggestions and excisions in the margins in your minuscule script .
7	The first person who came to see me was n't Doone after all but Tremayne .
8	I quickly discovered that in her view it did n't have one , and that the only reason she had agreed to see me was to get this across once and for all .
9	You 're not going to kill me are you ? ’ she whimpered .
10	I can appreciate Edouard would rather have me wasting my time at the museum instead of going round to his flat and trying to persuade Barbara Coleman to leave , but sending someone to kill me was rather an over-reaction . ’
11	But one incident that amused me was that I was booked for a coffee commercial and the producer phoned me up the night before the session to let me know the track we were doing , because he said he wanted to get it as close to the original as he possibly could .
12	‘ What 's puzzling me is that phone-call Nicola had at the party .
13	I saw no one on the long lonely road home , and the only enemy that attacked me was the midges .
14	What really concerned me was how to finance a tunnel project of any kind .
15	What particularly concerned me was their feeling that Balbinder seemed to understand and respond better in Punjabi .
16	The other thing that concerned me was particular slots which do n't seem to ever produce much in the way of attendance or revenue .
17	The only thing that concerned me was that , with Stephen Pears injured , I was the oldest player in the team .
18	Specifically , what fascinates me is how the operations of the billions of nerve cells that cohabit inside our skulls to form our brains are capable of giving rise to our actions and our conscious experience .
19	The Chairman of the Governors asked me was there a precedent in a flowing her to come into the interviews , and I said ‘ No , the precedent has already been set and that she was n't in on the other appointments . ’
20	Last thing he asked me was where he might find Florrie Shaw .
21	Th th the point that erm we were then discussing was that in practice of course males may , m ma may contribute a lot more an and , and the question was is this er something to do with the adaptions of our species or is it just the this was the question you , you asked me was n't it ?
22	What 's annoyed me is the fact that you borrowed out five grand without even bothering to mention it to me . ’
23	What got me is , when we went out to this , this shopping mall , where we were , when we go to have this brunch , she was in .
24	What got me was the way she made this rather bizarre suggestion seem so utterly reasonable .
25	ROBBIE What got me was when I went to other folks ' houses .
26	‘ My husband hates me being a businesswoman .
27	What really angers me is the exploitation of young women like us by advertisers , to sell their products .
28	‘ What angers me is that they were on a government controlled game reserve and planned it carefully .
29	The main thing that upsets me is the fact that she 's a bastard .
30	‘ However , what upsets me is that I have heard unconfirmed rumours that some of the riders were threatening to pull out if I were put in the third row of the grid as was at first planned .