Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [pron] [verb] me [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The look she gave me changed from fear to disgust . |
| 2 | His face was without the offensively avuncular smile that usually accompanies such trite statements ; and something intent about the look he gave me made it clear he did not mean it tritely . |
| 3 | It was either the carrot or the stick which helped me to complete the analysis and report on my results . |
| 4 | In my opinion in Ex parte Agegate Ltd. , the fact that the residence requirement was applicable to British citizens and nationals of other member states alike was the main element in the reasoning which led me to take the view , unlike the court , that that requirement was compatible with Community law : see para. 57 . |
| 5 | All the pictures he showed me looked the same messy blur but he insisted he could make out the individual features of each person . |
| 6 | She looked so like my daughter did at her age , and the pleasure she gave me compensated for the lack of time I had with her mother when she was a child . |
| 7 | ‘ Whatever pleasure it gives you can not match the pleasure it gave me to buy this trinket for you . ’ |
| 8 | Be interesting cos you can hear exactly what they 're saying , mm I say people like Simon and Doreen who do n't erm televise much and you 've got the telephone you told me do n't you ? |
| 9 | Even under Edward 's guidance it proved difficult to feel my way into the texts he gave me to read . |
| 10 | ' 'Bout five hundred bucks — from working in the store and from the articles you helped me to place . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Those are some of the effects which prompted me to write . |
| 12 | and I should warn you that once I was asked to go to a , a series of lectures in a certain cathedral on the seven deadly sins , because the Canon who invited me said he wanted a married man who was good on lust ! |
| 13 | Her eyes were grey , her whole expression animated and a little skittish — or so I thought — from the moment she observed me admiring her breast . |
| 14 | I still thought she should be keener , however , so I knocked yet another half an ounce off her flying weight , until she was so eager that she set off towards me virtually the moment she saw me putting on the glove . |
| 15 | When I went to the linesman he told me to clear off . |
| 16 | ‘ As I was going off at half-time , the lad who tackled me came up and said ‘ I 'm sorry , but it was only a little tap ’ . ’ |
| 17 | In the middle of the night she woke me to talk about Heathcliff . |
| 18 | ‘ This is one of the things she wanted me to do . |
| 19 | I do n't seem to be able to do any of the things she wants me to do . |
| 20 | The gentleman who saved me suggested I tell my story to the French authorities . |
| 21 | In addition , the person who sent me wants the young man to be removed from his home and educated as a gentleman who expects to inherit a fortune . ’ |
| 22 | The day they expect me to pay for it , I shall retire . |
| 23 | I offered a taxi into town but he preferred to walk to the exhibition he wanted me to see in Na Příkopě , near the centre . |
| 24 | And the names he called me turned the air blue ! |
| 25 | Coober Pedy ( form the aboriginal kupa piti meaning " white man 's burrow " ) has a large migrant population but it was an Australian who dug me out when I became bogged down in the dull-dust , and an old swagman on the road who warned me to keep an eye on the weather . |
| 26 | Pulled between the conflicting impulses , I ought to resist the craving which dulls the awareness which moves me to abstain , because for me that is a causally necessary condition of obeying ‘ Face the fact that you might get cancer ’ . |
| 27 | In the presence of Mick and Paddy , I acted normally , but when I was alone , and especially in difficulty , the gates which allowed me to escape from convention were opened . |
| 28 | I asked him why the hell he wanted me to stay the night when he was going out later , and he just shrugged his shoulders and said he was in a funny mood and did n't know what he was saying . ’ |
| 29 | I find myself alone with the steward who tells me has been working on this line for the past twenty-five years . |
| 30 | Thus the doctor who tells me to take a drug , if I wish to recover from a sickness , is expressing a hypothetical imperative . |