Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [vb pp] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | The affection I feel for you personally has led me , if anything , to understate it . |
| 2 | The commonest and most visible indices of field officer performance are negative , as an agency head explained : ‘ An area supervisor will sit there and say , ‘ So and so has let me down again . |
| 3 | ‘ He 'd better have beaten me . ’ |
| 4 | First : he 's weird enough to have undressed me without thinking , according to some mad notion of the ‘ proper ’ thing to do . |
| 5 | Filmer had n't even glanced at me , still less had known me . |
| 6 | ‘ You know , Lissa , seeing you tonight has made me realise that I 'd hate to lose contact with you again . |
| 7 | The Great Spirit above has left me and my people to their fate . |
| 8 | It seemed to me that she should have taken my part , should somehow have defended me from my father . |
| 9 | Yet fear it I did , so greatly did the idea come to me that if I took her up to the cave to meet Elsbeth , she would somehow have trapped me instead of I her . |
| 10 | The phrase ‘ artistic culture ’ should already have put me on my guard . |
| 11 | Could you not just have asked me ? ’ |
| 12 | If you knew about the letter , you could just have phoned me and told me not to open it . |
| 13 | Christ , they could just have topped me . |
| 14 | Would he just have left me … |
| 15 | ‘ Though why you could n't just have told me … ’ |
| 16 | She could easily have given me the push after her dad died , and taken on somebody … well , more presentable , like . ’ |
| 17 | As a result of this all pervading desire for reticence it is possible to suggest that the presentation of research papers in seminars , the creation of an undirected thesis , not to mention the production of a book , could easily have placed me in breach of Regulation 6 , which outlines the disciplinary offence of |
| 18 | Trouble closer home has sent me out |
| 19 | He could not possibly have misunderstood me . |
| 20 | When , sometimes , I think back on the beauty of life on a South Seas island , I start to wonder how fate could possibly have propelled me from the rain and bedraggled leafless winter trees of England to such distant enchantment . |
| 21 | I was convinced that the grass near the fence was long enough to conceal me , so they could n't possibly have spotted me . |
| 22 | ‘ You could always have married me , Izzie . ’ |
| 23 | Coming home 's taught me that . |
| 24 | She said , ‘ I think you would probably have scolded me just as hard , Mr Langley , ’ and then she gathered up her handbag and rose to her feet . |
| 25 | And if I had turned into a handsome prince Gillian would probably have shown me — him — the door . |
| 26 | If I 'd asked you for it you 'd probably have punched me in the eye . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ And , if you 'd given me the chance to finish , you would also have heard me specify ‘ for the general collection ’ . |
| 28 | Erm , this is something that I 've spoken with about over a long period and what really has concerned me is that we 've two red signals , both facing the traffic and children and blind people could be crossing thinking the traffic had held up , and when I or detecting we rely on our own engineers maybe going round that way , maybe the police or public reporting it . |
| 29 | Yeah but er it really has knocked me for six this time . |
| 30 | I have to say that nothing in my career so far has prepared me for this kind of work . |