Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [verb] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | On another occasion , this suspicion might have been calculated to cripple me with a sense of my own worthlessness . |
| 2 | ( I had taken to climbing over the railings of the barracks each night , as the watchmen on the gate had been forbidden to let me in as I was known to be sleeping there . |
| 3 | But do n't blame yourself — you could n't have been expected to warn me and risk your own job . |
| 4 | At Liverpool the Principal wrote , also at the end of 1967 , that within the new polytechnic ‘ there will be complete autonomy in respect of the academic work of the Faculty of Art and nothing that has been said causes me to have any misgivings on this score . |
| 5 | I suppose she was in the kitchen , perhaps avoiding me , and perhaps the boy had been instructed to entertain me . |
| 6 | ‘ He said he had been instructed to tell me that because Ayrton Senna would drive for nothing , I , the new world champion , had to accept a massive reduction in remuneration from the figure agreed in Hungary . |
| 7 | I do hope that positive arrangements are made to contact me in writing and that we can continue to work together to provide safe working conditions . |
| 8 | In the cold light of day , you 're forced to see me as I am — the woman you believe stole your grandfather 's jade . |
| 9 | ‘ He had been told to stop me winning at Ascot . |
| 10 | ‘ Is that what you 've been told to tell me , or is it the truth ? ’ |
| 11 | ‘ This situation has meant me not being able to get the sort of access to my daughter I want because the fact that the interdict is still in place has been used to prevent me from getting increased access . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Oh Yanto , ’ she moaned softly , if we do this every time we see one another , you are bound to get me into trouble , and that would kill our Dad . |
| 13 | The fact that they have been invited shows me how stone-cold almost sure Conrad Black had been of a Tory victory . |
| 14 | Readers are invited to let me have queries about the book business , at home or abroad , and to offer answers to queries already put . |
| 15 | On the street again , suddenly I felt I was in the middle of a farce — ‘ POLICE SEARCH FOR THE BIG BANANA IS ON — and the discovery that actually I did have my cheque numbers in my moneybelt and that it was the photocopies that had been stolen made me almost light-headed . |
| 16 | I , on the other hand , am organised and punctual and trying to get her to be organised wears me out . |
| 17 | Another lady who asked not to be named sent me her measurement sheet as well as the completed questionnaire . |
| 18 | Erm but I think that I , what I felt was that I should have the right to be consulted and that every reasonable effort should be made to consult me . |
| 19 | X amount is going to be needed to help me achieve my objectives . |
| 20 | I think coping with distances would be my biggest problem if the authorities could ever be persuaded to allow me to live in Australia . |
| 21 | I ca n't be bothered to waste me breath on yer . ‘ |
| 22 | I 'd been hoping my daughter would be brought to see me at Holloway and was frightened of her turning up and finding me not there . |
| 23 | Schools , churches and individuals had to be encouraged to sponsor me and , periodically , information sheets had to be typed , duplicated , and sent to them . |
| 24 | Of course , there were exams which had to be passed to let me into College but these were accomplished by hard , but guided work . |
| 25 | When Ken called by later , he told me that he 'd been commanded to show me the sights the following afternoon . |
| 26 | I have discovered for example that the acute stress of being interviewed makes me sweat a lot , an afternoon of difficult telephone calls leaves me with lower back pain , while the run-down-at-the-end-of-a-long-hard-term kind of stress makes me irritable and forgetful . |
| 27 | The other exercises were designed to help me with a problem of co-ordination in hammer-ons and in string skipping . |
| 28 | Exercises 1–3 were designed to get me out of a rut in my playing . |
| 29 | My father , who 's also an actor , once wanted me to be in a play that he was in , and just being asked made me cry . |
| 30 | I mean , that my parents were allowed to keep me ? ’ |