Example sentences of "me [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do hope it 's not the bitterness of someone who is n't logical , but sometimes it makes me emotional . |
| 2 | ‘ Bring me liquid sustenance , for I have need of thy strongest mocha-java , merchantman … ’ |
| 3 | Will think me callow , inexperienced . |
| 4 | ‘ Critics have found me narrow , ’ his opening paragraph continues , ‘ and I have no doubt that my opening proposition , whatever I may say to explain and justify it , will be adduced in reinforcement of their strictures , ’ adding bitterly that ‘ the only way to escape misrepresentation is never to … say anything . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Critics have found me narrow , implies that his reputation is already controversial , a truth of which he was justly proud , and it is a provocation aptly calculated to make one read on ; and to claim that the only way to escape misrepresentation is to say nothing implies that something momentous is about to be said , that it is his habit and custom to do so , and that he is widely hated because he does . |
| 6 | ‘ But for God 's sake send me prompt news , Sharpe . |
| 7 | ‘ New bugs are wets and weeds their mummies blub when they kiss them goodbye while seniors such as me hem-hem stand grimly by licking their slobering chops . |
| 8 | Makes me introspective about certain things missing from my life these days . ’ |
| 9 | I 'm not horrible , it 's just something I do to keep me occupied ! |
| 10 | Even PhD students can be approached before they have finished their theses , though the publication of unrevised theses seems to me undesirable , common though it has become : a thesis is written , as a rule , for two examiners , whereas a book , however specialized , should have a rather wider readership in mind . |
| 11 | An ’ that ai n't me usual practice . ’ |
| 12 | The Principal offered me complete freedom to visit and photograph any part of the complex . |
| 13 | Like a twat I decided that attack was the best way of preserving my job , and so I demanded that the board give me complete control over team selection , tactics , welfare etc. , with no boardroom interference whatsoever . |
| 14 | Anthony Cheetham offered me complete control of the whole sales operation at the Orion Publishing Group Ltd , encompassing home and export sales for both hardbacks and mass market paperbacks , and while I have been very happy at Random House in its many incarnations , I felt it was too good an offer to miss . |
| 15 | Using the structured eavesdropping technique allowed me complete freedom to sit and observe groups . |
| 16 | ‘ Fox , although allowing me complete control over the physical side of making the picture , were strong enough to prevent me changing the script , ’ he said . |
| 17 | They call me vain and arrogant , |
| 18 | ‘ I do n't know about you , but that film made me horny . |
| 19 | This seems to me retrogressive , and in some respects a return to the kind of thing I heard in my younger days in Oxford : ‘ One can not hope to understand A , unless one also knows about B , C , D , etc . ’ |
| 20 | Forgive me but it seems to me strange that a lady such as you … how shall I say … should stay in a pensione . |
| 21 | You think me strange but it is not I who is strange — it is the truth that you find strange . |
| 22 | It gave me strange things to think of when I found myself looking at my own boy 's face in a picture painted three hundred years ago ! |
| 23 | Do you think he found me strange ? ‘ |
| 24 | And no doubt she thinks me strange beyond belief I am too tall , not handsome by this world 's standards , and I do n't know how to pay the pretty compliments a young woman expects . |
| 25 | She 's been giving me strange looks ever since I got here — doubtless because it 's not exactly commonplace for the star of the show to make bookings for the lowly make-up artist . ’ |
| 26 | He told me strange stories of red-skinned men who wore eagle feathers , and their wise man fitted Doctor Agrippa 's description . |
| 27 | ‘ It made me bad-tempered and very impatient — not the best recipe for a successful relationship . ’ |
| 28 | Do not forget me dear comrade . |
| 29 | ‘ Still bringing wages home to me dear old mum , ’ said Joe , who spent the occasional weekend with his parents in their Chatham home and was always there at Christmas . |
| 30 | I was so tempted to sit there and say excuse me dear you need a shave ! |