Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [verb] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | But like Agnes 's , it was her eyes which fascinated me — large , dark , and almond-shaped . |
| 2 | Well now , at the end of that six months I 'd had varied success , sometimes I had poor periods when I was n't detecting much , then I would have a little break , do better , but at the end of the six months nobody told me whether I was stopping there , but twenty years later I did go back to uniform as an inspector . |
| 3 | My mind is full of dark thoughts and evil yearnings , terrible images which move me to wickedness , as if to some obscure crime which perhaps I have committed already — ’ |
| 4 | Looking back on that visit , as I sometimes do , I find it difficult to reconcile the warm , charming and amusing hostess who spared the time to entertain us that day with the latter-day basso profundo screecher of the House of Commons and the earnest , ingratiating gusher of numerous television interviews ( performances which make me dream wistfully of the old saw , ‘ In the ideal society politics should be as unobtrusive as drains ’ ) . |
| 5 | There is an old-fashioned quality to these performances which leaves me wishing for something just a little less well-upholstered , although I can imagine anyone coming to Bach for the first time with this recording could well come away with the impression that old LEAVES is quite simply the ‘ bizz ’ , and I for one would not wish to argue with that ! |
| 6 | For me , this system meant the weeding out of subjects which bored me , and the opportunity to concentrate and read around those which really interested me . |
| 7 | These are the pictures which interest me most for their complex attitude to the feminine . |
| 8 | And he still can not resist , all these years later , a spiky dig — ‘ but most gratifying of all was that the journalists who condemned me were proved so utterly wrong ’ . |
| 9 | I think it would be appropriate to very briefly sir preface erm not by name obviously , who I represent , the interests I represent , because otherwise my comments may be misconstrued erm by certain parties who know me well , I represent certain peripheral land owner and developer interests around York , I also represent a developer who is proposing a n new village circa fifteen hundred dwellings in the Leeds metropolitan district er to the East of Wetherby , that is relevant when I come to the location and a migration aspects , er I would preface the rest of my comments by saying I consider it is vitally important , sir , that this enquiry takes a sub-regional view , this is why my colleague from Leeds City Council I 'm sure 's been invited , it 's why the Department of the Environment Regional Office are here , very important indeed . |
| 10 | See children with skateboards they amaze me ! |
| 11 | After many months they let me free . |
| 12 | So he has me do that and on other songs he has me play bass . |
| 13 | Since DOL is hopefully making a comeback this evening for the reserves it leads me to this question . |
| 14 | All the pictures he showed me looked the same messy blur but he insisted he could make out the individual features of each person . |
| 15 | Giant-fiend of a hundred hands , with a shower of arrowy death-pangs he transpierced me , and then he became a wolf , and lay a-gnawing at my bones ! |
| 16 | I only read a little in the books he gave me , picked up what I could . |
| 17 | So for the meanwhile I continued with my ritualised observances , obsessively counting the number of steps it took me to walk to any given location , carefully avoiding the cracks in the pavement for fear that the bears of the id might get me , and attending to my bodily functions with the pure metrical devotion of a sadhu . |
| 18 | What actually happened was my a friend of mine or really was a friend of mine for a short time , he he was in the company when I joined , and er after two months he told me he was leaving . |
| 19 | Every couple of months he takes me aside and , his breath sweet with trapped drink , asks me how I am . |
| 20 | Furthermore , there are particular reasons which impel me to that conclusion . |
| 21 | For reasons which baffle me , the referee thought that it was Gimbert who was pulling down the scrum . |
| 22 | I married Melanie in a rush , for reasons which embarrass me to remember . |
| 23 | I think it 's important to understand that all my work is about demystification — both of the self and of the medical and family discourses which defined me for much of my life . |
| 24 | Another part of the proposals which worries me is the Scottish Office taking responsibility for more of the main roads . |
| 25 | I despise the idea and practice of blood sports , but this violent reaction threw up a profile of wildly inconsistent attitudes which puzzles me ; how is it that fox hunting is legal and fishing is the most popular outdoor recreational activity in Britain , yet badger killing invokes a desire for public retribution — lynch mob fever , almost — over and above the punishment of the courts ? |
| 26 | During my sheltered youth I had two fleeting experiences which gave me some indication that I was not alone . |
| 27 | He said : ‘ In talking to people about the election I have become aware of two areas which concern me deeply and , I believe , compromise the democratic process . |
| 28 | I was impressed by a deluge of letters from the Masons which assured me that both men were entirely innocent of importing cannabis as the police alleged . |
| 29 | It was at this point I decided to modify the router fence with two aluminium blocks which allowed me to work off that face but beneath the area I wanted to machine away . |
| 30 | ‘ Those are some of the effects which prompted me to write . |