Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] me [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | but er they were a bit of a nuisance because more than once , I must admit I erm , I collided with them which rather made me aware of their presence but anyway erm , then just beyond I am sorry , on the erm right hand side , a little way down this corridor , were the stairs up to the next floor which was in those days Public Health |
| 2 | ‘ The beauty and interesting nature of this little bird ’ , Gould wrote , ‘ naturally made me anxious to bring home living examples ; I accordingly captured about twenty fully fledged birds , and kept them alive for some time ; but the difficulties necessarily attendant upon travelling in a new country rendering it impracticable to afford them the attention they required , I regret to say the whole were lost . ’ |
| 3 | We broke up after I met her mother , who walked into the room in which I was sitting , only to find me oblivious , shouting obscenities at a television screen whereon computerised pirates were digging up a desert island at my joystick 's behest . |
| 4 | She 's literally keeping me alive . |
| 5 | Ralph Meeker snapped an old man 's priceless Caruso record in half in Kiss Me Deadly , Richard Conte tortured Cornel Wilde by turning up a hearing aid and shouting into it in The Big Combo , Ingrid Bergman drank the poisoned Brazilian coffee in Notorious , Charles Laughton plunged down a lift shaft in The Big Clock , Orson Welles and Rita Hayworth shot it out in a hall of mirrors in Lady from Shanghai , Edmond O'Brien lurched into a police station to report his own murder in D.O.A. , Tony Curtis was brutally beaten by a corrupt cop in Sweet Smell of Success , Laurence Harvey jumped in the lake in The Manchurian Candidate . |
| 6 | ‘ Being in the same side as people like Rob Andrew can only do me good . |
| 7 | ‘ So put me right , my dear , since you keep insisting I 'm mistaken . |
| 8 | I only got , I only ruined me other one cos when , when it , |
| 9 | It somewhat shook me rigid , and through my colleague , Peggy who received a gold award this week , we got some of those leaflets , that were sent to us , and Peggy wrote a letter , around to the workplaces in Grimsby and Cleethorpes , and as a role , as trade union liaison officer with Grimsby C L P , she sent it to the workplaces within Grimsby . |
| 10 | well no , I 'm only wearing me bloody coat and the skirt and er grey tights that 's all , er whatever up top I mean I hope that , have a look , I hope it 's gon na be a better bus anyway this week |
| 11 | More often than not Ma starts me off only to leave me stranded above the waterdragon with my–backside wedged into the Young Person 's Patent Toilet Seat Adaptor ( another trophy won from the WI jumble by Pa ) . |
| 12 | I had stopped seeing the nightmare shape when I shut my eyes but every so often the pigeon stirred just enough to keep me awake . |
| 13 | Ai n't it enough to keep me awake all night with your snoring ? ’ |
| 14 | And yet , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , I also knew that it was this cold that drew me , this steady destruction of body and imagination , this utter alienness , as though only that could still excite me , as though anything less alien would only leave me indifferent . |
| 15 | It 's not much point me just sort of reciting the percentages . |
| 16 | And er the chap that tended her was er a locum , he were only a young chap , and er he says , Oh oh I 'm sorry , he says , I 'd better get me old man to come , he said I do n't suppose I 'll ever see another of these in my career . |
| 17 | we did translation , Xenophon , I do not know a word of it I do not think Greek alone makes me miserable , I am always miserable . |
| 18 | got too scary , so to make me scared , she slapped me round the face . |
| 19 | He impressed our sectional conference and he will impress this conference as well and this only makes me aware that the G M B , not only now , but in the future , will be a leading force in the issues within the British and the European trades union movement . |
| 20 | The realization eased my shock a little — enough to make me aware of the sense of violence building up around me . |
| 21 | I hope , however , that you will not think me Panglossian when I suggest that we are now not far from that point . |
| 22 | I — ' She turned to Ben now , saying , ‘ I do n't know why I was afraid , they just made me afraid . |
| 23 | This weather and all that and i it just drives me daft you know ? |
| 24 | The discussions about the pre game meets in Tetley pubs just make me homesick , The discussions about the pre game meets in Tetley pubs just make me homesick , luoops Labatt Blue just does n't quite do it . |
| 25 | The discussions about the pre game meets in Tetley pubs just make me homesick , The discussions about the pre game meets in Tetley pubs just make me homesick , luoops Labatt Blue just does n't quite do it . |
| 26 | They just make me nervous . |
| 27 | The only consolation I have is that he did not make me pregnant . |
| 28 | Even if a band that I liked did this , I 'm sure that it would not make me gay ( And even if the power of rock introduced you to the delights of homosexuality , who cares , eh ? |
| 29 | This stand does not make me blind to the distress others feel or to the disillusionment that this issue causes . |
| 30 | ‘ It does not make me happy . |