Example sentences of "me [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It gave me strange things to think of when I found myself looking at my own boy 's face in a picture painted three hundred years ago ! |
| 2 | She 's been giving me strange looks ever since I got here — doubtless because it 's not exactly commonplace for the star of the show to make bookings for the lowly make-up artist . ’ |
| 3 | He told me strange stories of red-skinned men who wore eagle feathers , and their wise man fitted Doctor Agrippa 's description . |
| 4 | ‘ Many parents bring me rebellious teenagers with the plea , ‘ Please change her , doctor ! ' ’ |
| 5 | This gives me strong blacks . |
| 6 | This gives me strong blacks . |
| 7 | A woman with a vacuum cleaner whose tube I fell over , the man who sold me withered flowers , even the couple who let their dog foul outside the gate were all candidates for a warm hug and a deluge of good wishes . |
| 8 | Oh dear me sorry thanks Mike phew . |
| 9 | ‘ E calls me Private Carrots . |
| 10 | Signora Puglia was consulted and she suggested that she should give me private lessons after school to bring me up to the standard of the others . |
| 11 | She had stopped giving me murderous looks and seemed quite bright-eyed as we got ourselves ready to leave the ship . |
| 12 | Denis , who watched my part of the show every night , would often give me odd notes on inflections he 'd have preferred done another way or phrasing he thought I could improve on . |
| 13 | But there was a foreman in the shop , but these did their own job er and er in the about three or four weeks , and I 'm only a kid , erm they had me doing separate jobs you know , not for a gaffer or anything and er they used to , they give me odd jobs as , you know like , to help the men and er it went of like that in till I was eighteen or nineteen , well twenty , that time you were , day , become a man . |
| 14 | So saying , when my wife Catherine died of cancer , Anthea sent me persistent invitations to spend a few days at her cottage , or even just come for a meal . |
| 15 | Then I said to them , " Its a pity you could n't find me foster parents " , and the social worker said , " What a brilliant idea ! " |
| 16 | So they gave me minute instructions ( enclosed , along with the much-travelled draft , in the foreign-desk-clerk 's handwriting ) about what you should say to them if you can be persuaded to try them again . |
| 17 | ‘ Me proper shoes ! |
| 18 | ‘ Oh , yer rotten liar , ’ breathed the young woman , a shabby black straw hat on her head , ‘ I never snaffled no gent 's wallet in all me born days . ’ |
| 19 | Not a drop of gin or brandy ever touched me lips in all me born days . |
| 20 | ‘ Oh , you rotten beast , I 've never 'ad fleas in all me born days . ’ |
| 21 | and that 's , what I wan na do next , take them , to take me old curtains down and gon na re-make them for Lee 's bedroom . |
| 22 | ‘ If it were n't for me old bones and the fact that I might be overlooked when the bidding starts , I would n't want you within a mile of that sale room . |
| 23 | This , however , caused me untold problems , as I then had to ‘ answer ’ to the officer and see a tutor at the nursing school to explain the reason for such criticism . |
| 24 | Monty Lee and Dick Cleaver both gave me generous references . |
| 25 | Dr Cassidy put forward fairly Burmin 's assertions that gold mining on Croagh Patrick would in no way interfere with the pilgrimage : ‘ I say in all fairness that should planning permission for mining ever be granted Burmin have given me repeated assurances that there will be no interference with the Pilgrim Path , there would be no interference with Patrick 's Peak or that particular part of the mountain range . ’ |
| 26 | She did not ask me foolish questions such as — ‘ How do you propose to go about it ? ’ but instead said with easy grace , reaching into a capacious velvet bag , handing me a card : |
| 27 | But if you 're giving me different inputs , different outputs for for one input , then that 's not a function . |
| 28 | on your interview she said I want you tell us because at the end of the , your interview she said , it 'll help us to do the others , so they told us , giving me different situations , she 's took a patient out to a cafe and the patient pinched a cake and eaten it , what would you do ? |
| 29 | I walked like some sleepwalker as he showed me empty rooms and a steep , stone-vaulted cellar . |
| 30 | Then the young assistant started giving me funny looks , as if there was something up and I should know there was something up . |