Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] me [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One thing that doing the talk show has taught me is that people hear what they expect to hear . |
| 2 | One thing all that experience with women has taught me is how long it takes them to get dressed . |
| 3 | I must say this drink Liza has given me is a life-saver . |
| 4 | The label on the key Mrs Tamm has given me is crumpled and blank . |
| 5 | Erm , this is something that I 've spoken with about over a long period and what really has concerned me is that we 've two red signals , both facing the traffic and children and blind people could be crossing thinking the traffic had held up , and when I or detecting we rely on our own engineers maybe going round that way , maybe the police or public reporting it . |
| 6 | What has pleased me is the way in which the living material of Rural Studies is so avidly used in Art nowadays , not just in primary schools , but in secondary schools , too . |
| 7 | The first person who came to see me was n't Doone after all but Tremayne . |
| 8 | For some reason , I felt terrified of him , yet what chiefly seemed to scare me was a minor eccentricity of garb : the man wore nothing but an elaborate scarf or band or belt of fabric about his middle . |
| 9 | I quickly discovered that in her view it did n't have one , and that the only reason she had agreed to see me was to get this across once and for all . |
| 10 | You 're not going to kill me are you ? ’ she whimpered . |
| 11 | ‘ They 're going to kill you , Jim , ’ said Silver when the two of us were alone , ‘ and they 're going to stop me being their captain . |
| 12 | The only person I can see following me is you . |
| 13 | ‘ The only way you 're going to hurt me is by running away from me , ’ he told her in a rough voice . |
| 14 | Getting to know me was a bad idea . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ He said it was inevitable , that bad blood would always surface in the next generation , and that the only way he could hope to save me was to chase the devil from my soul before he got a proper hold . ’ |
| 16 | And my magic wrought true — for it was into your time I came , to Starr Hills , where I had walked four hundred years before ; and coming to meet me was a man who asked me simply if I were a mermaid , for he had seen me walking out of the sea . ’ |
| 17 | Not only did I discover that all these tender little messages you keep sending me were probably written weeks in advance , but I also discovered just how many other women I share that privilege with . |
| 18 | I knelt on the wooden floor in the East Yorkshire winter praying , " Dear God if you exist let me be warmed . " |
| 19 | Very quickly erm er the Mrs said that er yes I do have a direct er line to God and one of the messages he did give me was that I should start to write Focus . |
| 20 | What did irritate me was the old crusty-type who went through the motions of standing in front of everyone and asking them if they ‘ had any spare change for an old dosser ’ . |
| 21 | What did irritate me was the old crusty-type who went through the motions of standing in front of everyone and asking them if they ‘ had any spare change for an old dosser ’ . |
| 22 | If what Dennis had told me was true , Karen was wide open . |
| 23 | ‘ What does amuse me is that although all the erotica and pornography are readily available , hypocrisy triumphs in the way they are stored . |
| 24 | ‘ Nothing you 've told me is new , ’ she snapped . |
| 25 | The one thing that had bothered me was having to borrow Lewis Luther 's helmet . |
| 26 | The knocking that had woken me was repeated , and I heard Masha 's voice . |
| 27 | That dog which had tortured me was there in that kennel . |
| 28 | In spite of all my experience or rearing wild animals , the one species that continued to defeat me was the infant elephant . ’ |
| 29 | What they 've sent me is erm a week 's wage and my three rest days but no holiday pay . |
| 30 | What does frighten me is that there may not be sufficient time left to me to do as you suggest . |