Example sentences of "[verb] me more [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Nothing irritates me more than righteous indignation , ’ he said lightly . |
| 2 | Hey , darlin' , do n't you fancy me more than that nigger ? |
| 3 | 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 . " ) |
| 4 | And there is the fact that he is a good painter , and I know he will be quite famous one day , and this influences me more than it should . |
| 5 | They found the picture of Jill that Sayeed had given me more than eighteen months before . |
| 6 | But according to Aunt Mary , what upset me more than anything , including the Father Christmas thing , was the business with the rainbow . |
| 7 | She 's not too unpleasant , even if she does pretend to like me more than I know she really does . |
| 8 | He needs me more than I need him . |
| 9 | ‘ He needs me more than you do , ’ she said , as if that was an explanation . |
| 10 | ‘ For the moment she needs me more than you do , ’ he said at last . |
| 11 | Nothing makes me more downcast than the ‘ uplifting ’ , nothing elevates me more than the de-jected . |
| 12 | ‘ That performance against Palace worries me more than anything I have seen so far this season . |
| 13 | I think the thing that worries me more than anything else about them , that a lot of 'em have aspirations erm greater than their finances . |
| 14 | Treat it as junk and throw it away although it cost me more than fifty four . |
| 15 | ‘ Playing minor characters has always interested me more than playing heroes . |
| 16 | Nothing pleased me more than to be allowed to take supper with them . |
| 17 | Selling was more painful than being sold , a variant of this hurts me more than it hurts you and a comic resourcefulness worthy of Falstaff in his ‘ let him kill the next Percy himself ’ vein . |
| 18 | ‘ This hurts me more than it does you . ’ |
| 19 | Simon by then had heavily said , ‘ This hurts me more than it hurts you ’ to Pippa , and when the chaos was over Thomas began to laugh , for he had seen that the lash of the crop literally had curled round onto Simon 's back between each stroke , probably quite stingingly , though the man had been too excited to notice it . |
| 20 | I have nothing but admiration for those hardy woodturners who have put the clock back a few hundred years and are making furniture with their pole lathes , but it has made me more than ever aware that the wood lathe has changed very little over the years . |
| 21 | The manner in which the hand-lettered sign on the side attacked Senator Edward Kennedy told me more than enough about them . |
| 22 | ‘ Are you sure you ca n't do me more than eight brace ? ’ |
| 23 | Mick had disturbed me more than he knew . |
| 24 | Well , she said let me more than welcome but umm well when she came home it was in the suede pouch and she said well here y'are , here 's you 're watch , you know . |
| 25 | And I Queensbank and he would n't even give me more than a fiver ! |
| 26 | In the former case the creditor can reply to the debtor , ‘ you owe me more than this , and if you sue for a return of this , I shall set off my larger claim against it . ’ |
| 27 | But of all I had read so far , nothing troubled me more than two notes I encountered towards the end of the seventh chapter . |
| 28 | ‘ Would you like me more if I had some schooling , Seb ? |
| 29 | ‘ You have offered me more than anyone has ever done before , ’ she said . |
| 30 | That would have helped me more than going to prison and mixing with all them people and just getting depressed and fed up and full of hatred . |