Example sentences of "[adj] and [vb base] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Just look at this and tell me if you recognise this man . ’ |
| 2 | Six hundred times er well hang on , six hundred take away , do n't use your calculator yet , just think about this and tell me what you 're going to do . |
| 3 | I asked him to let me have his agreement to this and give me the destination . " |
| 4 | It was in excellent condition , was only a year old and cost me £85 . |
| 5 | I mean I spoke to Jane the other Sunday and I , I said to her you know , just be honest , I said I do n't care what you said , but just be honest and tell me how much you think I weigh , cos she does n't know how much I weigh and she thought I weighed about ten stone , I said well stick thirteen pounds on top of that , then you 'll be right , she could n't believe that I , that I weighed that much , so obviously it does n't look that bad and people at work , well they 've noticed that I 've lost weight , but they do n't say how much they think I weigh , so I do n't want come to them to sort of , have a , have a g have a guess of my weight . |
| 6 | ‘ As it has never impressed me either , you can pretend that I am normal and address me by my name . |
| 7 | Why did I bother to tell her , only to have her shout at me , accuse me of being crazy to wake her up for that and tell me to keep my nose out of her brother 's business , especially since it was nothing to do with me . |
| 8 | It it 's so measure measure the gradient of that and tell me what it is . |
| 9 | That 's right , it 's just that I worked , I think , yesterday I could n't get into erm , I just could n't get into and yesterday I must admit I felt really rough and erm , I thought at three o'clock I was going to have to ring Iris , cos I knew you were still out you see and at three o'clock I thought I was going to have to ring Iris er just to come in cos I ca n't like your head was my stomach was churning over , it was n't till , soon as I get some food in front of me oh I get , you see I did n't feel too cracking in the morning and I thought well there 's lots of stomach bugs going about and I thought well I 'm having one of them , and I did n't know what I fancied for lunch and I cooked the kiddies theirs , they had fish and what have you , and erm , I thought well what can I have , I thought I what , I thought I got a little tin of salmon there , so I thought right I 'll have a salmon sandwich and I had that and believe me I felt , by three o'clock I could see myself picking me up off the floor , I only got spots before my eyes as such , but , I just had , I had four , five cups of water , I did n't drink any tea , and I wish then , well I do n't know whether I could have felt any worse when I had the sandwich or not to be honest . |
| 10 | On miserable days when both of us were low , he would delve into the depths of a pannier and give me a mini Mars bar or some peanuts . |
| 11 | And she may be really ill and need me — ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Can you be patient and trust me ? ’ |
| 13 | No wonder viewers often get the two Jennys muddled and call me Jenny Seagrove . |
| 14 | I find the textual basis for this interpretation very flimsy , in fact there is clear erm erm erm textual evidence for precisely the opposite and let me cite erm one instance Locke is here talking about tacit consent and the purchase of property and erm he says whenever the owner who has given nothing but such a tacit consent to the government will by donation , sale or otherwise quit the said possession , he is at liberty to go and incorporate himself into any other commonwealth or to agree with others to begin a new one in any part of the world they can find free and unpossessed whereas he that has once by actual agreement in any expressed declaration given his consent to be of any commonwealth is perpetually and indispensably obliged to be and remain unalterably a subject to it and can never be again in the liberty of the state of nature . |
| 15 | Now sit still and let me see to your arm . ’ |
| 16 | What , once sin has entered the world , it can cost you to obey all those injunctions in the new testament about ‘ I am thy father and thy mother , sell all and follow me . ’ |
| 17 | Get them all and meet me in the Operations Room . |
| 18 | Forget it all and kiss me now , aunt . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Take me in by your fire for I am shivering with cold and I am lost in the forest … oh be merciful and let me share your fire and give me a cup of milk to sup and a mouthful of bread … ’ |
| 20 | I bet she 's got ta get irate and ring me back , tell Geoff what I said , I thought well I do n't care , she 's speaks it and I 'll just say to her quietly well , you know I said now Marie 's done this to Geoff after all his hard work and he 's helped his worry anyway then defies him , he begs her to leave and she defied and she 's moved . |
| 21 | I thought he 'd leave the machine alone and follow me . |
| 22 | Even Daley Thompson , who insisted he had very little interference from teachers , said they helped him in a non-involved way : ‘ They were all right ; they left me alone and let me get on with what suited me . |
| 23 | If you had left well alone and let me carry on my business I would n't be here . |
| 24 | He ca n't cuddle me any more and tell me everything 's going to be all right , so he hits me to show he 's still the boss . |
| 25 | Now talk some more and let me hear whether you 've come back with an American accent . " |
| 26 | About period ten and correct me if I 'm wrong Andrew I was told it would be about a thousand , roughly a thousand pounds per fee earning employee . |
| 27 | Yes and he 's very , very difficult to feed himself , to get the food in because , you know , he liked to come in a half past ten and bully me to cook things for him that 's why sometimes I used to run up to bed and pretend I was asleep . |
| 28 | Paul expresses his assurance to Timothy , ‘ the Lord will rescue me from all evil and take me safely into his heavenly Kingdom ’ ( 2 Tim . |
| 29 | But they always gave me the choice first and put me in a dilemma , though I did n't know the meaning of the word then . |
| 30 | The members are accountable and let me go back about the committees . |