Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [vb -s] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | With a karate chop to the nape of my neck , my masseuse gets me back where she wants me . |
| 2 | Like when we go to the laundrette , or she takes me to the swimming baths to have a hot shower . |
| 3 | Ca n't remember whether I owe Madge a letter or she owes me one . |
| 4 | And the situations I imagine ( where he forsakes me ) are real . |
| 5 | ‘ The beastly old woman has told me , quite bluntly , that she considers me very much an ex -wife . |
| 6 | He spoke already in terms of collaboration — ‘ I sent you a few studies because you can see from them that she helps me a great deal by posing . |
| 7 | If , however , your answer is specific ( e.g. ‘ She has a temper tantrum when I insist that she obeys me , for example when I tell her to eat up her breakfast ’ ) then an effective procedure can be worked out . |
| 8 | ‘ I do n't know why I 'm so bloody to her , ’ Marriage grumbled , ‘ except that she tolerates me . |
| 9 | And it is not that she knows me to be bad or weak , or you either , but her conventional mind could not grasp that a thing so often impure , can be made absolutely and perfectly pure . |
| 10 | ‘ Methinks I should contrive to send her a message , suggesting that she pays me another visit . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ The truth is that she envies me , ’ she went on more calmly . |
| 12 | all the same , that she wants me at home , though she does n't like me , and she could never admit that she might need me … " |
| 13 | But whatever the case , and despite the fact that she bores me to stupefaction , I ca n't be unkind to her . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Did Cheryl really say that she loves me ? ’ |
| 15 | Poor child , it 's terrible that she loves me so much . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ It says in the Daily Mirror that she fancies me , ’ he boasts lightheartedly . |
| 17 | Observing Irina in her advancing years , it is only occasionally that she reminds me of my mother or Aunt Anna — a look , a gesture , a sudden exclamation . |
| 18 | ‘ So she tells me . ’ |
| 19 | But it 's as well Mrs Abberley made a clean breast of it when she did , especially since the tape recording confirms — so she tells me — the existence of the letters which … which has been called into question in certain quarters . ’ |
| 20 | Erm , the the other things is a little while ago she was erm , er , er you know , giving me bills like for about five or six pounds once for cleaning materials , and I queried this , because it 's quite a lot of money and erm , so she tells me that she buys expensive erm bleach and she uses a bottle of that a week , well she only comes in three times , and I said well , that 's very extravagant I said and told her what , but since I told her that . |
| 21 | And she is a woman with no husband and no son , so she hates me , too . |
| 22 | No not really — they just sit down and they listen to me and they 'll say something — " Brenda where you come from ? " [ laughs ] somefin' like that , you know what I mean , cause I 'm born English so they aks me what I want to speak Patois for ? |
| 23 | Now I know it 's a lot to expect , what with your sister still only nineteen , and the old a ‘ Buck ’ being every year of sixty five , so they tells me , but May and September 's always been a heady mix , and the old fool seems besotted . ’ |
| 24 | Aye they did although it takes me a bit of time to think about it but erm they did have a a er a black book , aye . |
| 25 | But you 'll never have the strength to send me away — you 're so weak , Bob , that it embarrasses me — and in the end the job will fall to me ; I shall have to send myself away . |
| 26 | ‘ But that does n't mean that it suits me , Aunt Louise . |
| 27 | He wrote : ‘ And also that it sustains me , in ways that I ca n't explain . |
| 28 | Not that it bothers me . |
| 29 | I just feel that it tells me nothing about them . ’ |
| 30 | For God 's sake , what is it I have got from him , that it sets me so high ? |