Example sentences of "[verb] [modal v] [verb] me " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | I 'll never even dare to be successful , because when I 'm dead some clod with a thesis to write will put me down as a wild-eyed harridan who jumped on her lover in the street and pulled all his hair out because he 'd gone off with a person with webbed feet . |
| 2 | I am aware too that , in spite of other similarities , no amount of relating will allow me to converse in more than a most elementary way with a chimpanzee . |
| 3 | Those big blue eyes do n't work on me , and , until I see something in writing , a proper , documented civil agreement , nothing you say will convince me you did n't know full well what you were doing . |
| 4 | ‘ You think that these other people you mentioned will do me harm ? ’ |
| 5 | sort of well a couple of nights deejaying will do me for a start really . |
| 6 | A full supporting line up will be announced shortly and any local bands wishing to be considered can contact me . |
| 7 | It is very heated and more than anything else I have done would take me a million miles from the safety of Ramsay Street , ’ she said . |
| 8 | I have with me Professor Geoffrey Best , who I hope will help me do the decent thing by our partners . |
| 9 | I fancy my acquaintance with the Bard 's works and my gift for scribbling would inspire me to produce a dramatic masterpiece . |
| 10 | Lots of people like the poster too , so we 'll be sticking with it for now , and as for the scores … we 'll be done some more reader challenges soon , so liars who can hardly play a game they claim to have mastered will have me to deal with ! |
| 11 | ‘ I tend to keep quiet about it — otherwise most of the women I know would want me to draw up their horoscope ! |
| 12 | I knew that his clothes , his manners and uneducated way of speaking would make me ashamed of him . |
| 13 | ‘ I would say , ’ I agreed , ‘ that getting myself arrested would lose me my job . ’ |
| 14 | If he was not saved , then Sapt would ask me to stay and marry the Princess . |
| 15 | That which I trust shall make me worthy of your high esteem . |
| 16 | As the days went by , I did start to try the newspapers and job centres again — anywhere in fact that I thought might find me either a job or a home . |
| 17 | Still , I 'd always tried hard to be a good golfer , and playing off three handicap I knew would stand me in good stead . |
| 18 | It was n't the alcohol you thought would hit me … ‘ |
| 19 | ‘ Tell me something you think might interest me . ’ |
| 20 | The theory was that the effort of changing would keep me pinned to the table , diligent and creative . |
| 21 | Only if Baker drops to 19th today will Feherty go past him , but David says : ‘ Even if Peter is still ahead of me I would like to think that winning would give me a good chance of a wild card . ’ |
| 22 | Only if Baker drops to 19th today will Feherty go past him , but David says : ‘ Even if Peter is still ahead of me I would like to think that winning would give me a good chance of a wild card . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Nothing you did would surprise me , ’ she returned coldly . |
| 24 | ‘ It may be that you will come across information which you think would interest me . |
| 25 | ( The so-called bra half is also used and written ( To explain what purpose it serves would take me too far into the mathematical mysteries of dual vector spaces and scalar products — see Appendix , A4 . ) |
| 26 | I like to take care of my staff , just as I intend to take care of my wife — if the one I love will marry me . ’ |
| 27 | that you do will make me feel alright ta . |
| 28 | Although I know that the amount of exercise I do will keep me fit , these days I feel guilty about doing ‘ so little ’ exercise . |
| 29 | I said , get me the man whom people think can beat me . |
| 30 | Mind you Miss No , Miss 'd blame me cos she knows me . |