Example sentences of "[vb infin] me [adv] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Could you spare me just one of your beautiful pears ? " |
| 2 | ‘ My monthly salary would buy me just four bottles of Johnny Walker whisky on the black market , ’ said Hatim , a professor of engineering at Baghdad University . |
| 3 | okay cos they 'll all want some , they 'll all give me about ten P which is n't much |
| 4 | is gon na cost me about four thousand |
| 5 | All the magic had died from it , and it was but a husk of itself ; for all my art , it could tell me only one thing — that no one could restore it to its place except a child not yet born , and born only for that task . |
| 6 | ( My favourites , if you 'll indulge me just two in-jokes , are the conferring of a knighthood on Professor John Maynard Smith , and the description of Professor Ernst Mayr , that eloquent and most unmathematical arch-critic of mathematical genetics , as " the high priest " of mathematical genetics . ) |
| 7 | I realised Michael could save me maybe five years of work , but I figured I 'd rather go slow and steady than to go fast and have it all fall apart . |
| 8 | sh and she said that that shampoo will last me approximately three to four months . |
| 9 | I sometimes find it difficult to believe that other lesbians will accept me as one of them . |