Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [verb] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only people who can hurt or compliment me are my friends |
| 2 | She has from day one showed her disdain for me as one opposed to hypocrisy and her type of esoteric or pseudo intellectuality — being satisfied as I am with intelligence , integrity and interest ( ! ) — and has manifestly made it clear she overtly dislikes me because I wo n't be moulded or do what she wants or tells me — she suffers the matriarch/ bossy syndrome ( childhood nickname I am told was ) and does not like the fact I am utterly my own forthright person who spoils the incestuous sibling smythe-watson quartet which she ‘ ran ’ so self-interestedly for so long … |
| 3 | IT WAS a two-part induction process that dragged me into the brawling hostelry in the sky of NME Towers . |
| 4 | It is the cynicism in the design process that offends me ; the suggestion that there 's no point in designing anything special for the working classes because they do n't have any taste . |
| 5 | It is this concern about what is happening that gets me out of my studio into the landscape carefully to scrutinise its every aspect for meanings . |
| 6 | ‘ I should rather say it was something he inadvertently let fall that led me to believe there might be a legal case to answer . ’ |
| 7 | And though he was never to make such almost innocent remarks again , and though Eva and Dad continued to want to make love all the time , and I caught her giggling while she did idiotic things with him , like snipping the hair in his ears and nostrils with a huge pair of scissors , there were looks that escaped all possible policing , looks that made me think he was capable only of a corrupted happiness . |
| 8 | I still wo n't , if you ever want to try and leave me . ’ |
| 9 | I asked erm Ian yesterday to try and give me the dates so I , I 'm , I expect him to come back to me today with some idea on that . |
| 10 | Immediately Alex thought : so that 's why she invited me to dinner , to try and match me up with her semi-alcoholic brother . |
| 11 | In the meantime , I want you all to try and build me a decent-sized castle , right ? ’ |
| 12 | You 're not going to try and talk me out of it , I hope . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ My father asked you to try and talk me out of getting married ? ’ |
| 14 | Whilst I was in Holloway , my probation officer sorted out something to try and stop me getting a prison sentence . |
| 15 | ‘ I felt he was going to try and hit me again so I stuck my right hand out . |
| 16 | Whatever he 's going to try and sell me , I 'm buying . |
| 17 | ‘ I was going to have a coffee at the Greek cake shop , ’ Constance went on , ‘ but just as I was going in one of those middle-class , middle-aged ladies with a smile on her face was coming out , and whenever I see one of them I think she 's going to try and sell me a poppy or something or tell me Jesus loves me . |
| 18 | She would beat me , push me as I was going downstairs , and do anything she could to try and harm me and my baby . |
| 19 | He 's going to try and get me into Combe Court . |
| 20 | But Elsie Birdsall and Lavinia Thwaites kept coming in with all kinds of things to try and get me going — home-made soups , arrowroot , custards — and finally I began to mend a little . |
| 21 | ‘ I do n't think it would be very wise of you to try and get me sent back to London . ’ |
| 22 | Erm but then she rang back later , I do n't know whether she contacted room bookings to try and get me a dining hall , but she said they might be able to have their dinner in the S C R. So that 's alright , I 'm okay . |
| 23 | ‘ And that gives them the right to try and maul me ? ’ she flared , unable to contain her hurt and anger . |
| 24 | ‘ If I was out of work I 'm sure Denis would be the first person to try and help me . |
| 25 | ‘ Is this decision of yours just to try and thwart me , or do you have any particular reason ? ’ |
| 26 | I was horribly afraid then that you must know and hate me for my disloyalty to Anthony . ’ |
| 27 | And it 's my contention , it 's my contention that them people that were er strafing and bombing me , er outside , er in republican Spain , was the same was the same crowd was the same crowd that were bombing and strafing several years later , in the in in the second world war , in in in France er and Holland . |
| 28 | ‘ He helped and encouraged me so much . ’ |
| 29 | My pouch-seat automatically deepened and clutched me like an egg . |
| 30 | You do n't know me , my name is Jimmy Cricket , I think I have a story which will , you will find desperately interesting , would you like to come and interview me ? ’ |