Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] [verb] me [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Perhaps you think me unduly harsh to express these things so openly . |
2 | Perhaps it made me too outspoken . |
3 | So he makes me falsely grateful . |
4 | Just you ask me where such and such is and I can place it … just like that ! ’ |
5 | Much later it struck me as odd that I experienced no superstitious fear or repugnance in the presence of a dead body , although I am so squeamish that more than once I have had to ask a neighbour to deal with a dead rabbit that one of the cats had brought in during the night . |
6 | Now you tell me how that can be fair . |
7 | Ladies and gentlemen , he would say , Ladies and gentlemen , now it gives me very great pleasure to introduce the woman who is responsible for holding this whole show together ; the woman who first understood all those years ago that there was crying need for a place where all you lovely people could gather of an evening , the one that we all know and love , and so … would you please welcome on stage , the very lovely , the very talented … once again … our very own … and sometimes he would fade out , and not even say her name , and he would pause , he would make us wait , he would suspend his elegant hands over the keys ; and then , in that silence , he would play the first notes of the actual song itself . |
8 | Why do n't you bring me down some day and somebody steal it |
9 | ‘ Wo n't you tell me how much you have found out ? ’ continued the youth . |
10 | Well it takes me about twenty sa minutes to get dressed , changed . |
11 | Well it makes me very bitter because the , this is the sort of thing that John and I we were going over one thing after the other . |
12 | Then you owe me so many hours do n't you ? |
13 | Yeah cos she used to get me t , and then she rang me up one day when I was and said dad erm dad ca n't bring me round there cos the car 's not working , can you come and pick me up ? |
14 | It is with much concern that I find myself unable to comply with a request from you and Mr. Browne , but indeed you pay me too great a compliment in supposing me capable of writing upon any subject that is proposed to me . |
15 | Sometimes he irritates me so much that I could scream at him . |
16 | I do n't know why they left me there alive . ’ |
17 | Unlike everyone else he thought me quite deviant . |
18 | Would that explain why he asked me so few questions , took my unlikely presence and knowledge so much for granted ? |
19 | Erm t th certainly it makes me really angry that people have to struggle for the basics and I you know I I just do n't see how people who are on long term benefits , erm state benefits , can survive without getting into serious debt . |