Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [verb] me [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I passed the hall in a large comprehensive school , where notices proclaimed ‘ Quiet please : examination in progress ’ , the invigilator , a geography teacher , staggered out to engage me in slurred discussion of educational issues . |
| 2 | I cried all day long and although Bessie tried hard to tempt me with nice things to eat or my favourite books , I took no pleasure in eating or even in reading . |
| 3 | ‘ You 'd better take me to this Wyrmberg of yours , had n't you ? ’ |
| 4 | Sitting in the train , with a Sunday paper which I 'd automatically bought lying unopened on my knee , I felt a sense of relief at being away from him , at being surrounded by a lot of impersonal uncaring strangers who could see nothing different about me because they 'd never seen me before last night . |
| 5 | " Sure , " said Fielding , and went on to tell me about two Southern actors called Sod MacGonagall and Fart Klaeber . |
| 6 | The way he went away hurts me to this day . |
| 7 | Hands clutched out to get me from all sides . |
| 8 | Fixing me with a beady eye as soon as I had sat down , she leaned over to damn me with faint praise . |
| 9 | But I was surprised to find that Bessie did not scold me at all . |
| 10 | ‘ And , ’ she went on , ‘ I was compelled to end my engagement to Havvie when I discovered that he did not love me at all … merely wanted Papa 's dollars , and , worse , despised us , all of us , for being rich and vulgar Yankees . |
| 11 | Faith did not tell me about this , you know , she would have realised how angry I should be . |
| 12 | ‘ This did not endear me to certain people at BRM . |
| 13 | It was an art which did not excite me at all , but there was no way out . |
| 14 | Existentially , they did not touch me at that moment . |
| 15 | ‘ The audience was freaking out , but it did n't bother me at all , ’ she recalls . |
| 16 | ‘ It did n't bother me at all . |
| 17 | He even went to see Hell Raiser III last night , ‘ and that did n't bother me at all . |
| 18 | It it did n't bother me at all . |
| 19 | ‘ No , it did n't strike me like that . |
| 20 | See , you did n't tell me about that . |
| 21 | You did n't tell me about that |
| 22 | But they did n't tell me about this . |
| 23 | And she sent me to a mother and toddler group , I mean , she did n't tell me about any self-help groups , it 's mother and toddler , she just said take you and the baby and go to mother and toddler and that 'll be it . |
| 24 | She said well you did n't tell me in any case did you ? |
| 25 | They did n't want me at this party , but because I AM , fang and claw I have grapple-hooked their smooth cliffs , and have the right to stalk these wooded cliffs , lap at their abundant streams . |
| 26 | They did n't want me for pastoral and I 'm not head of department . |
| 27 | Now that did n't benefit me at all . |
| 28 | In fact it did n't excite me at all . |
| 29 | Er , well having , no did , did n't worry me at all |
| 30 | School chairs tend to be even less comfortable than school beds , and I found it impossible to sit still for long — a fact which did n't endear me to irritable teachers , especially those who also resented my ‘ witty ’ ( i.e. irrelevant ) remarks . |