Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [verb] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Latterly that takes me there quite often enough for a member of the Church of England , let alone an atheist . |
| 2 | So that gives me an idea of where I 'm headed . ’ |
| 3 | The news that Karen and I were married was made public at a buffet brunch given by Thomas and Lynn Carter to which we had been invited — or rather Karen had been invited , and had asked if it would be all right to bring me along . |
| 4 | I shuddered , the very thought of anyone being so foolish baffled me , the steps were so rotten that it would n't have taken any weight to have snapped them and sent anyone plunging down causing a bad injury . |
| 5 | He was still sufficiently sane to remind me that Orvieto was perched on the top of a craggy escarpment . |
| 6 | They were both Londoners so this cheered me up no end , and we were soon making our way to the Mess for supper and then up to the office for me to meet some of the others . |
| 7 | So this forced me ( slightly against my will at the time ) to organise some special courses for them , and they turned out reasonably well after that . |
| 8 | So this struck me as odd . |
| 9 | I do n't fully understand why he does so much to distance me . |
| 10 | I put the old electric fire on in the shed , not so much to warm me as to keep the highly hygroscopic mixture from absorbing moisture out of a damp air . |
| 11 | You wo n't find it quite so easy to manipulate me . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ And may I ask if she will be so delighted to see me because I happen to be a male member of the human race … ? ’ |
| 13 | He tried so hard to help me while I was hurting in the hours it took to reach England ’ . |
| 14 | I shuffled forward as fast as I dared along the central walkway , figuring this to be less likely to lead me towards a choice-limiting edge . |
| 15 | Your father has been so good allowing me to stay , band — ’ |
| 16 | thinking , where is he , and then he came back I was so angry made me sick , because |
| 17 | ‘ It seems somewhat harsh to criminalise me for doing my best in what were quite exceptional circumstances . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Why is it so important to get me back in your rotten little Church , Quiggers ? ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I suppose that you will be gracious enough first to tell me how you arrived here , and secondly to allow me to take you home before you end up in another alley . |
| 20 | I pay a great tribute to my dad , who as a trade unionist on the railway would have been so proud to see me receive this very great honour . |
| 21 | ‘ One of them was so desperate to stop me overtaking at the ford he lost his footing and fell backwards into the water . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Do n't sound so pleased to see me , then ! ’ said Gazzer . |
| 23 | Since she 's gone there 's been a gap … it made my life better , because — she had a garden I could use … and it was like a job — I felt I was led to do that job … and she used to be so pleased to see me , she used to almost embrace me with tears in her eyes . |
| 24 | ‘ They were all so pleased to see me . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'm delighted you 're so pleased to see me . ’ |
| 26 | He was ever so pleased to see me . |
| 27 | ‘ When you would not dine with me on Tuesday , I drove that evening to my parents in Plzeň , but had I known you would sound so pleased to hear me , I would have driven back sooner than last night , ’ he lost no time in taking advantage . |
| 28 | She was frigid and strait-laced and therefore somewhat ill-equipped to keep me on the straight and narrow . |
| 29 | I see now why you 're so anxious to get me married off to Honor . |
| 30 | His undiluted radicalism was illustrated by his admission that ‘ my command of the English Language is not sufficiently wide to allow me to put into words the intense hatred and detestation I have for England . ’ |