Example sentences of "[verb] me [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And on the Dixon fight , the British , European and Commonwealth champion said : ‘ I gave him a taste but he got a bit feisty by trying to hit me back and I took him out . |
| 2 | And then Boy cut back to the man on the bed , who was saying ( actually it was a different man in a different room , Boy realised ; the sofa and the quilted nylon counterpane were in a different colour in this room , though the man sitting there looked just like the last one ) , the man was saying I like your shoes , please take off your shoes ; and Boy cut backwards and forwards between this man and the politician beginning to lose his self-control and saying I would just ask people to forgive me really and to forgive my wife as well . |
| 3 | ‘ Nothing irritates me more than righteous indignation , ’ he said lightly . |
| 4 | It would probably throw me completely If you |
| 5 | it would throw me completely if you put , if you changed some of the number plates over . |
| 6 | ‘ Do you remember bringing me here when I was very new to Monte Samana ? ’ |
| 7 | I was in the bank , so he came to see me there and introduced himself . |
| 8 | I do n't know what the drink was — brandy or whisky — I had that much , I had it twice , so that the lads had to see me home because I was more or less drunk . |
| 9 | She said you were using me just as she had been used . |
| 10 | I risked them seeing me so as to try to hear , but in fact by the time I could hear them they were shouting , which meant I could listen through the doorway without seeing them or being seen . |
| 11 | The Minister did not answer me earlier when I tried to raise a point about the period of between six and 16 months . |
| 12 | Now you d you went and interrupted me there and , and I 've forgotten what I was saying which was right . |
| 13 | She did n't want me around 'cause she was sure I 'd get hooked too . |
| 14 | ‘ Your Gran did n't want me around when you came visiting with Sarah and her family — wanted to have you to herself , she told me . |
| 15 | Well we 've come along the island of Stronsay now and at er the post office called Samson 's Lane and name which has always fascinated me really and er the sub-postmaster in charge here is Dennis . |
| 16 | It 's all hard and cold , but Marie laughs and turns me round so she can see it from all sides . |
| 17 | The idea just turns me off and my husband ca n't understand this . |
| 18 | and Alan 's started phoning me up and saying |
| 19 | On another occasion , a woman cousin met me there and we stood talking , ‘ Who was that woman you were talking to ? ’ |
| 20 | You took my youth , my innocence — everything I had ! — and then you flung me aside when you knew I could give you nothing … and you left me nothing ! ’ |
| 21 | It concerned me deeply that the men going back to Burma should have a smattering of the language , especially those who would go in with the Wingate levies into occupied Burma . |
| 22 | Hey , darlin' , do n't you fancy me more than that nigger ? |
| 23 | ‘ I accept partial blame but I have a feeling that history will treat me kindly because there was nothing wrong with my basic thesis . |
| 24 | His self-pitying speech reveals his worthlessness : ( " I may say " " Alas , woe is me " " : I love you more than my life , you hate me more than a goat hates the knife . " ) |
| 25 | He asked me why and I said I was reading a book called My Early Life by Winston Churchill and that I would want any son of mine to live that life . |
| 26 | The soldier , seeing my uninteresting-looking machine , asked me again if I would not prefer to choose a new one , but I refused . |
| 27 | At first they asked me if I wanted my mum to go out but I said No , but when they started asking me all those sorts of questions they asked me again and I said Yes . |
| 28 | 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 . ’ |
| 29 | and then he asked me then and erm , he did n't know whether to ask me or not , well he knew , he knew more or less I 'd say yes anyway , cos I more , I 'd already said yes , but not to his face , so but he did n't know whether to because Henry fancied me |
| 30 | Bullinger stayed with me , and asked me quietly whether I thought that there was any hope for her … |