Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] me that " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1537 Ralph Sadler complained to Cromwell about the probable consequences of an enforced withdrawal : ‘ My absence from the court will so much hinder me that I shall never be able to recover . ’ |
| 2 | Love and attention being the rewards of infantile behaviour , it only amazes me that I did not think of the idea sooner . |
| 3 | No , she only told me that the other day yeah she is |
| 4 | But I do not mean to suggest either , he wrote , that it was all waiting and no doing , all sitting and no action , for though it was impossible to tell when the beginning would come , indeed , he wrote , there could not have been a real beginning if it had been possible to tell , for if it had been possible to tell that would have meant that there had already been a beginning , no , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , occasionally things were done , work was begun , though it was soon abandoned , it added up to nothing , it only showed me that I had been mistaken in thinking that I had indeed started . |
| 5 | The letter inside informed me that Mrs J. Gargery had died the previous Monday , and that the burial would be next Monday , at 3 p.m . |
| 6 | So erm and the other thing was the erm the maternity bill er what is the other one that so interests me that , I 've got my two favourites , erm and that is the cervical , the cancer smear test . |
| 7 | She could only tell me that Wesley 's father had left home when he was about six years old , that his mother had remarried and the boy now lived with her and his stepfather . |
| 8 | This doubt of not quite knowing so worried me that I sometimes approached my visualization as if addressing a public meeting . |
| 9 | It so fascinated me that I stopped in the middle of the subway . |
| 10 | She gently reminded me that on being in the same room as a baby , the same borough , I became about as relaxed and spontaneous as any old member of the royal family being introduced to Lech Walesa . |
| 11 | " I 've seen enough to convince me that the only recommendation I can make to the bank is that they should withdraw all financial facilities to the Ingard group forthwith . |
| 12 | ‘ I did n't hang about long , but I saw enough to convince me that all that rubbish about Melanie 's frigidity was pure invention on your part . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ What you told me last night , Rachel , only convinced me that this marriage could work , ’ he said softly , and walked towards her with a look of intent in his blue eyes that sent panic rushing through her in hot waves . |
| 14 | The act of conception , staring at a typewriter for much of 1985 in a flat in Notting Hill Gate so depressed me that I immediately thereafter applied for a job as doctor for Amoco , who were then exploring for oil near Morondava . |
| 15 | The sight of a word processor so terrifies me that I 've stuck rigidly to scissors and adhesive tape , while a genius of a lady in Twickenham makes sense of my appalling first drafts . |
| 16 | Their laughter so infuriated me that I began to have thoughts of revenge . |
| 17 | She 's in the basement watching ‘ the telly ’ ' — he picked out the words sarcastically — ‘ though she did glance away from the screen just long enough to tell me that it was her mother 's bingo night . |
| 18 | Michelle was the only one on duty there , but she put down the latest James Herbert long enough to tell me that yes , they had sent for an Airborne messenger just after eleven , and that Anna kept asking if I 'd called . |
| 19 | I just worries me that these caring people are the same people that support the Tory policies that oppressed |
| 20 | I work in Chipping Norton at the Presbytery and erm it just amazed me that she could tell someone not to smoke . |
| 21 | so she just told me that so I 'll have all the news of Colin tomorrow they 've gone for a week |
| 22 | Alice were having I said just lend me that twenty pound note cos you , and God knows what she thought the bill was I says I 've got seven pound , I says just lend me your twenty pound note , I says you 'll still have enough to pay I says and I 'll give you it back when I get home , you know ? |
| 23 | However , the evidence that has finally convinced me that the neutral theory , if not the whole truth , is at least close to the truth concerns changes in the base sequence of DNA , and not in the amino acid sequence of proteins . |
| 24 | It has just told me that the trial has proved successful and that it will shortly make the address service available nationwide . |
| 25 | A friend has just told me that you should not wear tampons overnight as it can lead to toxic shock syndrome . |
| 26 | I can see from what you 've just told me that things have changed rather a lot in fifty years . |
| 27 | ‘ He has just told me that if I continue in my present path , remain the fine , upstanding , clean-living boy I so evidently am , I may one day hope — wait for it — to be elected to — Gracious heavens ! — the Cullbridge Athenaeum ! ’ |
| 28 | ‘ You 've just told me that the girls phone their mother every night . |
| 29 | Although Mr Salmon had already told me that we had declared war against the Germans almost a year ago — none of us having heard of Archduke Franz Ferdinand — we only found out how serious it was when a lot of young lads who had worked in the market began to disappear off to ‘ the front ’ to be replaced by their younger brothers — and sometimes even sisters . |
| 30 | just having me that we manage fine . |