Example sentences of "[subord] she [vb -s] me " in BNC.
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1 | With a karate chop to the nape of my neck , my masseuse gets me back where she wants me . |
2 | ‘ So she tells me . ’ |
3 | But it 's as well Mrs Abberley made a clean breast of it when she did , especially since the tape recording confirms — so she tells me — the existence of the letters which … which has been called into question in certain quarters . ’ |
4 | Erm , the the other things is a little while ago she was erm , er , er you know , giving me bills like for about five or six pounds once for cleaning materials , and I queried this , because it 's quite a lot of money and erm , so she tells me that she buys expensive erm bleach and she uses a bottle of that a week , well she only comes in three times , and I said well , that 's very extravagant I said and told her what , but since I told her that . |
5 | And she is a woman with no husband and no son , so she hates me , too . |
6 | Mind you Miss No , Miss 'd blame me cos she knows me . |
7 | Cos she beats me up ! |
8 | ‘ If she accosts me again , he grumbled , ‘ I 'll burn the bitch ! ’ |
9 | What if she do n't give me a loan of it , what if she tells me , you know , ‘ eff off , ’ or something , and by the time you come to the door , he 'll go like that , ‘ Just keep the lawnmower ’ , you know what I mean . |
10 | Look , I 'll promise you one thing : I 'll not marry Kitty McKenna , not even if she sends me another tie . ’ |
11 | ‘ Oh , I do n't care if she hears me ! ’ said Lady Ingram . |
12 | I say I 'll be back by lunch-time , but I ca n't tell if she believes me , because she do n't seem to have heard a word I said . |
13 | And if she gives me any of her pernickety , finicky quips I 'll throw it over her . |
14 | ‘ If she finds me with you she 'll have my eyes for marbles . ’ |
15 | ‘ If she wants me to . ’ |
16 | if she wants me to work . |
17 | Have me in the bathroom if she wants me ! |
18 | I wo n't believe it unless she tells me herself . |
19 | ‘ I do n't go in with her , not unless she wants me to . |
20 | In her company I feel she is my friend because she likes me , and not because she looks good beside me . |
21 | She seems to think that , just because she fancies me the feeling should be mutual ! ’ |
22 | ‘ It 's because she loves me so much that I just ca n't hurt her . |
23 | ‘ She gives a quick squirt so I can smell it , then finds a nice , easy chair till she hears me coming . ’ |
24 | I have to dress in my sweaty , dirty clothes and go back down to the kitchen , grumbling while she makes me a coffee , and I complain about my wet boots and she gives me a fresh pair of William 's socks to wear and I put them on and drink my coffee and whine about never being allowed to spend the night and tell her how just once I 'd like to wake up here in the morning , and have a nice , civilised breakfast with her , sitting on the sunny balcony outside the bedroom windows , but she makes me sit down while she laces my boots up , then takes my coffee cup off me and sends me out the back door and says I 've got two minutes before she arms the alarm and puts the infrared lights on stand-by so I have to go back the way I came , over the estate wall and through the wood and down into the stream where I get both feet wet and cold and I fall going up the bank and get all muddy and eventually drag myself up and through the hedge , scratching my cheek and tearing my polo-neck and then trudging across the field through heavy rain and more mud and finally getting to the car and panicking when I ca n't find the car keys before remembering I put them in the button-down back pocket of the jeans for safety instead of the side pocket like I usually do , and then having to put some dead branches under the front wheels because the fucking car 's stuck and finally getting away and home and even in the street light I can see what a mess of the pale upholstery my muddy clothes have made . |
25 | I 'm aching to run , but make myself sit for a second while she watches me through the black circles . |
26 | While she faces me , I need n't see |
27 | Similarly , when she catches me watering my plants on the balcony we share , she says , ‘ Shame you have n't got a patch to muck about in . ’ |
28 | Her hands are real soft and warm and when she touches me , I feel all sleepy and happy . |
29 | When she touches me , I shall be hers for all time , and when she touches me , I shall be so hungry for her , that I may hurt her . |
30 | When she touches me , I shall be hers for all time , and when she touches me , I shall be so hungry for her , that I may hurt her . |