Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] me [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The thing that most impresses me and most encourages my students when I use Streamline is that Streamline is an audiovisual course . |
| 2 | Love and attention being the rewards of infantile behaviour , it only amazes me that I did not think of the idea sooner . |
| 3 | The ruling not only hurts me but every other artist ’ , Koons added . |
| 4 | ‘ Unemployment is something that personally concerns me because I have been at the edge of unemployment all my life , ’ added the 42-year-old who speaks highly of the quality of the environment on Teesside , a much richer and more vibrant and pleasant place in which to live than he had imagined . |
| 5 | I might 've considered coming into the business if dear Daddy had n't already got Big Brother as a co-director , ready to take over from him , and if he did n't make it so plain that he only tolerates me because I 'm your husband . |
| 6 | So erm and the other thing was the erm the maternity bill er what is the other one that so interests me that , I 've got my two favourites , erm and that is the cervical , the cancer smear test . |
| 7 | One look at the fleapit that Dirkin dosses in convinces me that if Albie owed ten grand to anyone , it was not to him . |
| 8 | The sight of a word processor so terrifies me that I 've stuck rigidly to scissors and adhesive tape , while a genius of a lady in Twickenham makes sense of my appalling first drafts . |
| 9 | But the plan , the ownership of the plan print room , and the way that the plans are not stored safely and they 're not treated like proper documents , just amazes me when you compare it with some of the plan rooms in , in |
| 10 | I just worries me that these caring people are the same people that support the Tory policies that oppressed |
| 11 | so we 've got what we 've already got and we could produce i it it just worries me because we 're going , we 're going back to eleven plus days you know ! |
| 12 | But she do n't ask me where nothing is , she just asks me if I can spare lOp . |
| 13 | It just annoys me when they 're always fagging . |
| 14 | It just reminds me that you 're going back on Tuesday . ’ |
| 15 | Every time you look at me like that it just reminds me that I 'm cheating you , short-changing you . |
| 16 | No , well but er it , it , it 's it just strikes me as being a very , very immature when you 're in another person 's house |
| 17 | She has from day one showed her disdain for me as one opposed to hypocrisy and her type of esoteric or pseudo intellectuality — being satisfied as I am with intelligence , integrity and interest ( ! ) — and has manifestly made it clear she overtly dislikes me because I wo n't be moulded or do what she wants or tells me — she suffers the matriarch/ bossy syndrome ( childhood nickname I am told was ) and does not like the fact I am utterly my own forthright person who spoils the incestuous sibling smythe-watson quartet which she ‘ ran ’ so self-interestedly for so long … |
| 18 | ‘ This decision totally vindicates me and clears my name of the slur that I have lied about myself . ’ |
| 19 | What always amazes me when we play scrabble I mean , things that I consider to be slang you know , on the odd time I thought well I 'll try that |
| 20 | It still amazes me that I — an arts graduate — do this job . |
| 21 | For the moment , my mother still recognises me but later on I do n't know how she 'll take it . |
| 22 | Speaking in Record Mirror , Johnny Marr answered accusations of arrogance accordingly. : ‘ It always surprises me that people should call us arrogant or pretentious . |
| 23 | Which is why it always surprises me when people turn out to be such bad listeners . |
| 24 | He always asks me if he may stay . |
| 25 | It always bothers me that they never seem , you know , very warm |
| 26 | Fortunately , your software will remind you of this — when I am using DesignaKnit , it always reminds me if I need to save data . |
| 27 | It always strikes me when you see meths drinkers and imagine those people as children — they were all beautiful then , and it is simply an inexplicable phenomenon which makes me sit here and that other person is out there on the street . |
| 28 | It always amuses me when Liberal Democrats accuse me of having a ministerial career . |
| 29 | Yet the central thrust of what I was trying to say still strikes me as having some validity . |
| 30 | He still treats me as though I were ten . |