Example sentences of "[conj] she [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 | ‘ The beastly old woman has told me , quite bluntly , that she considers me very much an ex -wife . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ I do n't know why I 'm so bloody to her , ’ Marriage grumbled , ‘ except that she tolerates me . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ Methinks I should contrive to send her a message , suggesting that she pays me another visit . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ The truth is that she envies me , ’ she went on more calmly . |
| 11 | 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 … " |
| 12 | But whatever the case , and despite the fact that she bores me to stupefaction , I ca n't be unkind to her . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Did Cheryl really say that she loves me ? ’ |
| 14 | Poor child , it 's terrible that she loves me so much . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ It says in the Daily Mirror that she fancies me , ’ he boasts lightheartedly . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ So she tells me . ’ |
| 18 | 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 . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | And she is a woman with no husband and no son , so she hates me , too . |
| 21 | She sort of flinches but I dab real soft and she lets me finish . |
| 22 | She 's my own mother and she disgusts me . |
| 23 | Miss Clapp sees the excuse notes and she takes me for English . |
| 24 | Figure 5 Diary record of behaviour sequences Source : M. Herbert , Working with Children and their Families ( London : Routledge/British Psychological Society , 1988 ) or I ask her to do something and she ignores me or says , ‘ I wo n't ! ’ . |
| 25 | ‘ She 's afraid of me , and she hates me too . |
| 26 | She is pregnant , after all — prodigious , luminous ; and she pampers me outrageously . |
| 27 | ‘ She 's like a trapped animal , and she upsets me . |
| 28 | She tells me that when she was a nippy ( of course I say what 's a nippy and she tells me it 's a waitress ) the worst sin the girls could commit , sackable instantly , was to whirl the pencils which were attached by string to their aprons . |
| 29 | The woman in the shop 's pretty friendly and she tells me what to do with the plants — you know , water them once a week , or keep them out of draughts and that . |
| 30 | She is in the early stages of pregnancy , her belly gently swelling inside her pink dress , and she tells me with obvious delight that she is expecting a summer bambino . |