Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] me [adv] [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had only known , positively though without details , that there was no help and no comfort forthcoming from the source , and that being so I shied away from any mental flashbacks which could only make me more unhappy and ashamed . |
| 2 | Though he did not make me as starry-eyed as Daisy Yates , he was the best-looking man of any age I had ever seen , and I adored his old-fashioned manners . |
| 3 | My stay in Government had not made me less radical but more so . |
| 4 | If it makes you feel any happier , I will tell you that it did not cost me as much as a bouquet of flowers would have done . |
| 5 | Leaving behind hi-tech hospitals and computerized records did not bother me so much as leaving behind certain hard-won changes in birth procedures . |
| 6 | At the rime his Jewish appearance did not strike me as peculiar because I had not yet got used to the idea of people thinking racially , but I learnt later that he was half Jewish and that he did this job to keep his Jewish wife out of trouble . |
| 7 | But his questions were at once crucifying me as much as I knew they were of help . |
| 8 | It always strikes me as odd that we are incredibly specific in our lives about the small things , ordering a sandwich for instance : we order type of bread , filling , relish , seasonings and extras . |
| 9 | And John meantime seeks always to dismiss me as incompetent and neurotic ( probably , as people wiser than me , such as his own lawyer , say , he does this to suit his own ends and to give himself a good press and to live within his own fantasies and eccentricities . ) |
| 10 | It always struck me as ironic that these buildings , which had been designed to make that present appear futuristic , now served so well to make this present look exactly like the recent past . |
| 11 | Things like that do n't really bug me that much but I 'd do it again and again until it was perfect . |
| 12 | ‘ It wo n't make me as sick as what you have in mind , ’ she told him recklessly . |
| 13 | The actual experience was n't frightening me so much as what I 'd been told . |
| 14 | He did n't give me so much as a glance . |
| 15 | A lot of poetry seems to me very good in the tradition , but it does n't move me very much because it does n't have personal vibrance to it . |
| 16 | ‘ In Seville you said Majorca was greener and lusher and cooler but you did n't tell me how spectacular and beautiful it was , ’ Ruth breathed . |
| 17 | " I think … if my father discovered about us — I think he would n't punish me so much as my mother . |
| 18 | You could argue it was n't his fault that Clare was killed — or that she did n't love me as much as I loved her — and I 'd have to agree . |
| 19 | School and university still had n't changed me as much as they had ; maybe even the rest of my life could never compensate for their formative effect . |
| 20 | Morning Star devotes its front page to the collapse of capitalism in Tokyo , a development which does n't cheer me as much as it might once have done . |
| 21 | Thinking of him again made me so wretched that on my way back into the department I did not even notice the owner of the hand that held open the door for me , until I chanced to notice Dr Jones watching from outside his office . |
| 22 | It never struck me as odd until I had left school , that a school of girls aged from eleven to eighteen should daily be addressed as ‘ children ’ . |