Example sentences of "[vb base] me [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hasty note , the spluttering pen , the exasperated correction , the careful clerkly hand , the grandiloquent flourish , the obsequious subscription , the torn seal , the glint of sand still held in the writing from the hand that strewed it centuries ago — all these and much else bring me into close company with the past , more than the rooms in which men sat , the streets they walked , the clothes they wore or the trinkets that adorned them . |
| 2 | if those people also supply me with never-ending cups of tea and coffee while they 're there . |
| 3 | ‘ God preserve me from foolish and deceitful women , ’ he said , letting her hair go and falling back on the pillow , his arms raised angrily above his head . |
| 4 | ‘ Lots of people at school have commented on it and now associate me with Tory party propaganda . |
| 5 | Oh well they treated me alright afterwards because Mr er said , well you see they put me on big presses during the last war and er I 've always loved machinery , always loved machinery and then the foreman said er before the foreman came to him Mr said er , you 've got to learn to set your own tools , he said , I ca n't keep coming out of the tool room and er to change your tools , so of course erm I began setting my own tools , but when I got them in they would come around and check because otherwise hundreds of pounds have gone , could have gone if I had n't just got the top to go in right in the base you know , and er they were great big presses very big . |
| 6 | It spat a worrisome mixture of steam and flame out periodically and covered the bottom of the pans with black ooze , a treacly goo that got itself on to my pile jacket and put me in good humour for an hour or so . |
| 7 | If that power was sufficient , the holy spirit , if that power was sufficient to raise Christ from the dead , you not think he 's able to exert that power in your life and in my life to make us live lives that are pleasing to God , of course it is so we do n't do it ourselves , just let me in closing mention one other thing , this relationship we have needs to be maintained , you know for any relationship to grow , one needs to spend time with the other person , I do n't give a lot of credence to the saying that absence makes the heart grow fonder , it does with somebody else , it 's true , it does not make it grow fonder of that person the person is you know who you , you heard this story so often , like particularly like going back during the last war , folk who were separated sometimes for , for , not just for months but for several years , there they were in concentration camps perhaps , in prisoner of war camps , separated for years , they come back home they 've got to get to know each other all over again you see that a relationship on a human level as well as in our relationship with God is dependent on , on association , it 's dependent on companionship , it 's dependent on spending time with the other person and in our relationship with Christ this is achieved by , by prayer , by knowing and understanding God 's word , by having fellowship with other Christians and fellowship with other Christians is not just meeting them and passing the time of day with them , oh that 's fellowship but it 's far more than that is required , there 's the fellowship in worship , we worship together , of course I can worship God at home of course I can do it , so can you do it and we , we should do it , but there 's that re , there 's that need , that requirement as God 's people we come together to worship him in a corporate act , in the sacraments , in , as we mentioned in , in earlier on in taking the bread and the wine and remembering the lords death , there 's a sense in which I can do it by myself |
| 8 | By your expression , I judge that you suspect me of pseudo-intellectual flim-flam and it is undeniable that our deliberations tended more towards the sybaritic than the Socratic . |
| 9 | When I yell , take the first available right again , drop me off quick and then keep right on going as fast as you like . |
| 10 | ‘ You recall me to common sense and my duties , McAllister . |
| 11 | Please save me from wrong … |
| 12 | Inside the hall I 'm quickly surrounded by friendly eager lads in makeshift punk clothes covered in punky badges , who hungrily batter me with curious searching questions . |
| 13 | Both the men in expensive suits meet me on big-suited territory . |
| 14 | They 're so much more satisfactorily final and distinguished than weddings ; and christenings always fill me with great unease and pessimism and I do n't like sugared almonds . ’ |
| 15 | The august length of the Champs Elysées culminating in the sublime Arc de Triomphe with the eternal flame burning beneath it could not but fill me with reverential awe . |
| 16 | They might as well have a badge on them saying Steal Me in big black letters . |
| 17 | You either win me in fair competition , or you do n't have me at all , and there 's my last word o n't . " |
| 18 | You keep me in hot water all the time … |
| 19 | They remind me of tiny wooden houses on a Monopoly board . |
| 20 | The easy-going Crocosmia masanorum with orange flowers and its varieties Cx crocosmiiflora ‘ Lucifer , ( red ) and C. ‘ Emily McKenzie ’ ( yellow with red eye ) always remind me of Cornish lanes in summer . |
| 21 | ‘ And they reccommend me to other people . |
| 22 | ‘ You accuse me of underhand dealing , of using dubious methods to get what I want ? |
| 23 | ‘ So , you call me at regular intervals . |
| 24 | Not once did EMF lose their tempers at my teasing or threaten me with physical violence . |
| 25 | Round the neck of the bottle was a piece of paper with the words DRINK ME in large letters . |
| 26 | There are a number of issues which still concern me about continuing education for students with disabilities , just as they did when I entered college life — for example , the fear and ignorance that often surrounds this seemingly homogeneous condition known as ‘ disability ’ , and the unmitigated prejudice and stereotyping of people who do not ‘ fit ’ into a mythical category commonly known as ‘ normal ’ . |
| 27 | I have five children and not much money and not one of them has gone wrong and they all treat me with great respect . |
| 28 | The day they come to the door and denounce me in fluent Anglo-Saxon for a Scarlet Woman , then I 'll think about it . ’ |