Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [pron] [verb] me [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So now I 'm trying to tell it to this pad he bought me this morning . |
| 2 | He would refer to it as the ‘ funny stuff what makes me happy , ’ claiming to live for it . |
| 3 | I referred to it and you oddly enough in a handwritten letter to my father the other night after referring to Lord XXXXX one of whose contemporaries and friends is coming to stay here a couple of nights next week , and who has been a pillar in the fabric of my life , a man for whom consistency , continuity and courtesy are all — and who is often concerned at the unhappiness which is my ? ? ? ? ? ? ? it is in anything other than a bit of paper , which most of my old friends who wish me well , doubt ) … |
| 4 | They also had an overhead railway which gave me unlimited pleasure and I well remember a wall covered with hundreds of tiny wooden drawers filled with different sizes of screws and nails . |
| 5 | If I had to name the twentieth-century figure who reminds me most of corduroys , it would have to be Albert Einstein . |
| 6 | The result was a severely sprained left ankle which left me unable to walk . |
| 7 | They ate nothing themselves , but watched me eat with a sort of respectful deference which made me uneasy , it being , I felt , inappropriate and therefore dangerous . |
| 8 | I 've been doing this for twenty five years so the best deal I 've ever done is the sale I make each week which brings me three hundred quidHe later went onto spend over five hundred pounds on a Mickey Mouse Toy . |
| 9 | Emil explained to me that on this trip the linen , cutlery and glasses had been provided by the caterers , and without more ado he showed me first , where to find everything and second , how to set a table . |
| 10 | She , one day she tell me dat she saw a ghost — or somefing like a ghost , a person who come in the house — she tell me she pick up a brick and break i bones — de ting run like she no know what . |
| 11 | One thing I struck me this week there 's a new regulation as regard punctures on tyres because I had this completely flat tyre and a whole new set of tyres and I said to him well ca n't you mend it , ca n't you put an inner tube in like I I 've done before cos there was a nail in it you see . |
| 12 | Look at that letter you wrote me last night ! |
| 13 | Yet even though in my part Welsh has not been spoken for a long time , and indeed the natives have even forgotten the Welsh pronunciation of our Celtic place-names , it would not cross my neighbours ' minds that just living there makes me Welsh . |
| 14 | The Hon. Gentleman should perhaps speak to some of his own colleagues who gave me that advice . |
| 15 | The other week it cost me fifty quid to go to the , to get it tuned you know ? |
| 16 | You 'll find enclosed the original photograph you brought me some time ago — the one I took the enlargement from . |
| 17 | During my sheltered youth I had two fleeting experiences which gave me some indication that I was not alone . |
| 18 | Last week you give me three . |
| 19 | ‘ The last creature who told me that is living in a green-grocer 's shop now . |
| 20 | ‘ It was one or the other of your bright boy-friends who sent me this , was it ? ’ he demanded , tossing the paper down in front of her . |
| 21 | ‘ Hey Jitters , you limey bastid , last Thursday I saw me some Argentinian fellers marching down Main Street with GenTech weapons . |
| 22 | Twelve days later I received a call from an exultant Sylvia who told me that , on the previous evening , she had in fact managed to go right into the cupboard and switch off the light . |
| 23 | I had to stand in front of the whole school which gave me ample opportunity to observe the envy on some girls ' faces because knitting for the troops was a popular pastime then . |