Example sentences of "[pron] who [verb] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | But worse still , just as the Poet and the Mistress connived at each other 's deception in 138 , just as the Poet connived at the Friend 's deception in 93 , so in 112 the Poet is inviting the Friend to complete the circle : ‘ For what care I who calls me well or ill , /So you o'er-green my bad , my good allow ? ’ |
| 2 | Someone who tells me an apparently irrelevant fact may well want me to deduce a hidden inference in it , a proposition they prefer not to make explicit . |
| 3 | Someone who told me roundabout that |
| 4 | The same someone who taught me that there is no pleasure in a woman 's coldness . |
| 5 | It 's very inconvenient , but when I 'm working , I have someone who drives me about . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm sick to death of looking over my shoulder every time I come here , wondering and dreading if someone who knows me has seen me and can guess what I 'm coming here for ! ’ |
| 7 | The only time anyone other than Alan helped me was when Andy Norman , via John Bicourt , found me someone who helped me with my back problems . |
| 8 | Going back to the railway station was for the moment out of the question , just in case I bumped into someone who recognized me . |
| 9 | ‘ Someone who owes me . ’ |
| 10 | It was the Colonel himself who taught me how to shoot , and I always went with him for the fishing . |
| 11 | One of the virtues of parental investment er theory I would say is that er it 's particularly sensitive to female interests in , in in sexuality and nobody who knows me or has read er my works would , could possibly suspect me here of fashionable feminist prejudices er so I do n't say this because I think this is what people like to hear , but because I happen to think it 's true , I 'm afraid I 'm one of these old-fashioned and you may think stupid people who believe that you should er say things cos you think they 're true , not because you think er it 's what you think want w want to hear or if you say it , you 'll be accused of sexual harassment by a lecturer as I was last year . |
| 12 | He chooses to tap his fag packet round and round on the tabletop again rather than speak to me , so I say , ‘ Well , I 'm not sure about that , but it 's certainly somebody who knows me ; I mean , I think that card with my writing on it proves that . |
| 13 | It 's directed at somebody who did me over when I was young , ’ he waffles matter of factly . |
| 14 | It 's directed at somebody who did me over when I was young , ’ he waffles matter of factly . |
| 15 | She owes me a letter , thank heavens , somebody who owes me a letter instead of vice versa . |
| 16 | Suppose my friend turned to other people for help , gathered all the crucial data about myself , consulted everyone who knew me , all my friends and acquaintances . |
| 17 | Matthew and Luke record our Lord 's solemn reminder , ‘ Not everyone who calls me ‘ Lord , Lord ’ will enter the Kingdom of Heaven , but only those who do what my Father in heaven wants them to do . |
| 18 | ‘ I get a lot of laughs from everyone who sees me , especially when I 'm going across long grass and all they can see is an airline captain coming towards them at great speed with exhaust smoke coming from my rear end . |
| 19 | My family and these here with them who serve me salute you . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ It was just one of them who assaulted me . |
| 21 | Right now there were quite there were a few people who gave me their books There were a few people who who gave me their books but I mean Erm this was the first homework I 'd given you actually that er that I 'd you know given so I would like to see an improvement in this performance please . |
| 22 | I could see that Estella was still proud , and I knew that it was she who made me feel ashamed of home , and Joe , but I also knew that I could never stop loving her . |
| 23 | And it was she who brought me the first evening paper . |
| 24 | Aunt Lilian was aware — more than Aunt Kit was aware , anyway — of what might be thought a young girl 's natural pre-occupations , and it was she who took me to buy clothes and lipsticks , asking the sales girls ' advice with a gentle humility that touches me now , because she was not humble by nature and thought an interest in personal adornment the mark of a trivial mind . |
| 25 | It was she who told me you 're a writer . ’ |
| 26 | It is strange that I can find no reference to these beans in Peggy Earl 's " Tales of Islay " because it was she who told me that they were sometimes called " fairy eggs " and that some of the more wealthy people had them set in silver mounts to wear round their necks . |
| 27 | It is strange that I can find no reference to these beans in Peggy Earl 's " Tales of Islay " because it was she who told me that they were sometimes called " fairy eggs " and that some of the more wealthy people had them set in silver mounts to wear round their necks . |
| 28 | It was she who told me that Doogie was a commis chef at one of the better Park Lane hotels ( and I 'd said I had n't realized his politics were important and she 'd just looked at me ) and she was a journalist with one of the North London suburban weeklies . |
| 29 | And it was she who told me that she 'd been , that 's where they 'd been . |
| 30 | How very arrogant you are , Feargal , and might I remind you that it was you who sought me out , not the other way round ? ’ |