Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [verb] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | One more story about O : he told me ( it was as if he was trying to explain the oddity of his lovemaking to me , as if he was trying to account for or apologise for the way he 'd treated me , or perhaps to reassure me concerning the effect he 'd had on me , I do n't know ) , in the morning he told me that there was one man , this had been just a couple of years previously , there was one man who had summoned him to his bedside to be counted amongst a farewell gathering of lovers , dear friends and great passions . |
| 2 | Bernard more or less told me . |
| 3 | They did not seem pleased to see me , in fact they more or less ignored me , but I hardly noticed their rudeness . |
| 4 | He refused to come downstairs into the cellar but more or less instructed me to return to Oakington at once , as the Commander-in-Chief wanted to speak to me . |
| 5 | ‘ Open it , or so help me , I 'll — ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Get out or so help me , I 'll yell so loud that I 'll wake the whole house ! |
| 7 | Give it to me , Lori , or so help me I will go to the police and let you stew in your own juice . ’ |
| 8 | Another pull for ten minutes or so brought me up on to the summit , where I sat down to have my lunch . |
| 9 | ‘ Or just to insult me ? ’ |
| 10 | As I had been on the medical side since he came back , this was the first time he had spoken to me , or probably seen me . |
| 11 | I am almost tempted to produce some enormous prize for any bookseller who can furnish me with a list of the shortlisted titles , or even let me know if they have the winning title in stock : I feel confident that I would have no takers . |
| 12 | I could see him thumb through several papers before returning to the counter with a single sheet ; he made no attempt to invite me in or even to offer me a chair . |
| 13 | Or maybe use me as the basis for tissue culture , body-bank , whatever . ’ |
| 14 | Curiously it was the less forward-looking G major Sonata which in the faster figuration of its flanking movements once or twice had me longing for the greater clarity of a modern grand — likewise its greater ability to sing in the slow movement . |
| 15 | ‘ I persuaded her once or twice to meet me at the ruined tower . |
| 16 | He would make me look at pictures and then reproduce them with coloured pencils , or else ask me to rotate a figure mentally a certain number of degrees around a given perpendicular before attempting to redraw it . |
| 17 | I ai n't spoke to John today , he 's been asleep or else ignoring me ! |
| 18 | ‘ Even though it was the rise of Nazism that eventually prompted me to write A Child of Our , the scapegoats of the North of England and especially the effect on the children remained very much in my mind . ’ |
| 19 | Of course I am not advocating a return to the kind of education that so wounded me as a child . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | There are fewer elephants about up here erm and er the issue that obviously concerns me from the development point of view is the is the time scale , is the process rather , that that the planning policy would im would imply . |
| 22 | ‘ 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 . |
| 23 | Because I 'd passed the magical sixty years of age mark , I was now officially an old-age pensioner and that apparently made me technically ‘ vulnerable ’ under the provisions of the Homeless Persons Act . |
| 24 | So erm , I think when she said she did n't know , er , she was telling the truth , and when asked her if she could explain to me , the very point that just asked me , again she said she , she could n't explain , she had , she she 'd agreed , agreed it was a paradox , that she did n't really know erm , why the book had never been published , or until nineteen sixty seven erm note , note that it , that it had been taken . |
| 25 | ‘ She was very sure of herself , a bit cocky and she had a coldness that just put me off her . ’ |
| 26 | But if we 've had a really serious news bulletin that just makes me feel more jolly . |
| 27 | ‘ Well , the housemaid said something to me before I came in to prayers , and that just tickled me and I could n't help it . ’ |
| 28 | Ah , it ju , although , I mean , just when you said that just reminded me that time Hannah ! |
| 29 | When I visited the sites of three major Civil War battles ( Edgehill , Marston Moor and Naseby ) I encountered a number of obstacles that soon forced me to rethink where and how the additions to my collection would be made . |
| 30 | ‘ I think you 'll do more than just wish me success . |