Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] me in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No doubt my readers will have bigger and better examples of the persistence of facies which so fascinates me in this chapter , but I write as far as possible from my own experience . |
| 2 | My salary was barely enough to keep me in sliced white and undies , never mind maintain Mrs Dennis Parsons in the style to which she had become accustomed . |
| 3 | And working at the Shakespeare School of English does n't exactly hinder me in that direction . |
| 4 | 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 |
| 5 | I know they do not hold me in high regard . |
| 6 | ‘ I am excessively grateful to you for not deserting me in this hideous pass . |
| 7 | Next time you might not find me in such a good temper . ’ |
| 8 | He did n't ever force me in any way . |
| 9 | Mum , why do n't you ever enrol me in those ? |
| 10 | ‘ She usually lets me in these days . ’ |
| 11 | Doctor Turner takes me aside to acquaint me in funereal tones with the details of a colleague 's latest symptoms . |
| 12 | ‘ You nearly expected me in vain , ’ the Friar said . |
| 13 | ‘ Well , if it 's true that I 'm getting younger it 'll probably suit me in that case . ’ |
| 14 | As I passed the hall in a large comprehensive school , where notices proclaimed ‘ Quiet please : examination in progress ’ , the invigilator , a geography teacher , staggered out to engage me in slurred discussion of educational issues . |
| 15 | Nobody put themselves out to help me in any way at all , but I made it . |
| 16 | ‘ And there was I imagining that underneath that hostile exterior there was a girl who really held me in high esteem . ’ |
| 17 | As a small boy , I devised my own set of cartoon animals , and they now stood me in good stead . |
| 18 | ‘ Julius does n't affect me in any way . |
| 19 | I hope that the hon. Gentleman had the opportunity to tell the gentleman that he might well see me in future as I shall be returning to the town in which I was born . |
| 20 | Yes it is , it 's , it , it will be a bit frightening but like , I 've , I 've waited this long you know , so er anything they 're throwing up at me wo n't , wo n't be wo n't daunt me in any way because I 've been , like I went to a charity shield this season with Liverpool and they were playing Manchester United , there were sixty thousand there , and er I 'd have done anything just to get on there . |
| 21 | He — he would n't leave me in meaningless dark forever . |
| 22 | She said well you did n't tell me in any case did you ? |
| 23 | Seeing blocky and uninteresting sprites slowly hacking each other into oblivion does n't thrill me in any big way and I doubt it would excite anyone else . |
| 24 | Raquel wo n't play me in new film , vows Liz |
| 25 | BELVILLE : Do n't receive me in this manner , I charge you . |
| 26 | ‘ Do n't address me in that tone ! ’ snapped her ladyship , eyes firing up . |
| 27 | After tea we would sometimes walk round their garden , and she gave me tips on gardening which have since stood me in good stead ; and cuttings , which still bring her to my mind . |
| 28 | I wanted to continue my studies as a postgraduate at U.C.L. I was now interested in modern linguistic research , but knew very little about it , since linguistics had so far made little impact in the U.K. , and there was no teacher in the Department who could adequately supervise me in that area . |
| 29 | 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 . " |
| 30 | Johns was always liked , but it was ironic , and irony never interested me in visual art the way that it did in literature or the theatre . |