Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] me [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clever as he was , he was n't sufficiently clever to see this , and his assumption that I was half-witted made me stubbornly worse . |
| 2 | ‘ Your mother bought you out and with that money you are willing to buy me out ? ’ |
| 3 | Peace Corps was willing to send me off to Honduras , but I did n't feel right about it . |
| 4 | He had told me what he had to say about the murder and was free to call me again any time . |
| 5 | They 're prepared to release me straight away if the Teesside clubs ever merge . ’ |
| 6 | Dr Agerholme was in charge and she was quite willing to have me there . |
| 7 | I can not fight him while he 's my prisoner , I can not kill him until he 's free to face me again in arms . |
| 8 | I tried to sell it , but no one was willing to offer me more than five shillings , so Bob uses it for picking up the produce from the market every morning . ’ |
| 9 | " You mean , he 'd be willing to take me back , afterwards ? " |
| 10 | The patrol probably was n't looking for me — there were too many fugitives in Chinatown to concentrate on just one — but they 'd be more than willing to take me in if they tripped over me . |
| 11 | I need someone who 's prepared to follow me around , to think along my lines and , in time , to anticipate my needs . |
| 12 | Although he seemed to be oblivious of what had happened , because he was concentrating on some letter or other , Eliot looked up resignedly and with a smile of one all too accustomed to the lack of business acumen in other people ; but I could see that he was also relieved to find me not too cast down . |
| 13 | ‘ That I can be of help , that she is delighted to have me here and that my presence can be of great comfort to her during these very trying times . |
| 14 | The charm and naivety he exudes easily enables us to forgive his more sado-masochistic tendencies in movies like last year 's controversial Tie Me Up ! ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I know you 're glad to see me back , ’ said Thorfinn . |
| 16 | He 's not supposed to kill me now , the old witch said . |
| 17 | " And Jenny 's too ill to pick me up ? " |
| 18 | was supposed to pick me up from work , okay ? |
| 19 | Yeah , but she gets more allowance this week cos she was supposed to give me bloody thirty five quid she owes me . |
| 20 | In 1935 a page by David Garnett in the New Statesman first introduced me to her work , and I saw that A House and Its Head was a book likely to give me quite peculiar pleasure . |
| 21 | I get on with it most of the afternoon , and I 've still got a stack of unopened buff envelopes in my hand as I head doggedly back up the little twisting staircase and sit down on my hard box seat to get on with it again up here , a task which now looks likely to keep me here after everyone else has gone home . |
| 22 | So when my father had to leave in the summer he thought fit to send me here to my lord Isambard , to keep me from under my brother 's feet until Isabel 's safely wed . |
| 23 | ‘ And are you supposed to get me out of here ? ’ he asked , sardonically . |
| 24 | As you saw fit to remind me before , you do have work to do , the same as I have . |
| 25 | What did ‘ the ’ truth matter anyway since there was no one left to tell me more about Elsie except my mother , and her recollection of the events surrounding the disappearance were hazy at best ? |
| 26 | At least no person from Porlock was likely to interrupt me today . |
| 27 | Tom and Brian saw that I was down and worked very hard to bring me back up . |
| 28 | Before I got pregnant it was taken for granted I 'd be in the sixth form , then when I found out , I thought I had two months to tell everybody I wo n't be back and they 're going to say , " How come ? " , so I was saying , " Oh God , I 'm going to fail my 0-levels , you wont see me back here again " . |
| 29 | felt too tired to drive me on to ESF 's house , so I got there by bus , or rather by two buses ( an easy change ) , the first starting from about a hundred yards from and the other stopping just behind the Zoo by Primrose Hill and only a few minutes from Eduardo . |
| 30 | That still messes me up on the guitar . ’ |