Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] [verb] me [det] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It should n't take me much more than half an hour . |
| 2 | She shut up and her mouth fell into a gape , the sweat appeared in globules on her upper lip , the colour deepened in her face and she seemed to have to force breath into her lungs as she listened to him now saying , ‘ You 'll not tell me any more what I 've got to do and what I have n't got to do . |
| 3 | I had hoped that on my twenty-first birthday I would discover more about my future , but Mr Jaggers explained that he could not give me any more information , except that from now on I would have five hundred pounds a year to spend as I liked . |
| 4 | ‘ If you could just get me some warm water I — ’ |
| 5 | age of six months that they could n't handle me any more . |
| 6 | ‘ Of course , we were devastated , but we knew now what had been wrong all along — and at least they could n't blame me any more . ’ |
| 7 | It , it was a really nice size shop Walsall Wood was , but my sister , remember is eighty-two , I asked her , I told her you were coming and I asked her if there was anything she could tell me but er she do could n't tell me much more than myself . |
| 8 | When Dr Maxwell came along a little later , I asked him about it , and although he pooh-poohed it a bit and said it was all a lot of nonsense , I did get him to admit it could n't do me any actual harm to go to the classes and do exercises . |
| 9 | I was in there nearly three years , or two and a half years anyway and , of course , I when I passed to go to the Q M of course , I , I used to do the Headmaster 's and all that but they , they could n't teach me any more because you , you can only have the same lessons as them that have been taught you know . |
| 10 | It was clear that Mrs Fairfax would not tell me any more . |
| 11 | Erm one card would really do me some good . |
| 12 | I just do n't believe it , I 'm afraid , but he would n't tell me any more . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ He said if I 'd done exactly what he told me , and there were no tricks , he 'd contact me and hand over his evidence , and he would n't bother me any more . ’ |
| 14 | He ca n't cuddle me any more and tell me everything 's going to be all right , so he hits me to show he 's still the boss . |
| 15 | You ca n't tell me any different . |
| 16 | He ca n't give me any straight answers about all this because he is only concerned with the state-run prison service . |
| 17 | Oh they ca n't give me any more . |
| 18 | If it is only 20 francs , Father will perhaps give me another 10 … and then I 'll rush off at tremendous speed . ’ |
| 19 | When Andrée had recovered she said , ‘ And yet you will not tell me that simple thing ? ’ |
| 20 | The way some people look at it is , why should I let you write a book that wo n't do me any good but might do me some harm . |
| 21 | He argues that it is common for a depressed person to grossly exaggerate the negative implications of events ( sometimes called ‘ catastrophising ’ ) : ‘ I did n't get that job I 'm not bright enough — I 'll be unemployed or in low-level jobs for ever — I 'll be bored and boring-my friends will abandon me — my husband wo n't love me any more . ’ |
| 22 | Because they wo n't have me any more . |
| 23 | They 'll see my faults and then they wo n't like me any more . |
| 24 | Oh because I lost them and my mum wo n't buy me any more . |