Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] me [prep] [det] " 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 | The way he went away hurts me to this day . |
| 3 | But the thing that always concerns me about these kind of decisions under those kind of circumstances is that it might be a temporary depression : in other words a suicide wish , and this is a terrifically difficult issue that is bantered about a lot under these kind of circumstances , and normally , if someone says ‘ Kill me , ’ you figure they 're crazy . |
| 4 | Flying still excites me with that curious mixture of fear — knowing the plane has the aerodynamics of a brick once the forward thrust is lost — and the knowledge that at the other end of the journey there will be new sounds and smells and things to look at . |
| 5 | ‘ She usually lets me in these days . ’ |
| 6 | Anyway , ‘ Butterfly Girl ’ always reminds me of that bit in The Wicker Man where Britt Ekland is naked and writhing and patting suggestively on Edward Woodward 's bedroom wall and singing a similarly spooky mantra . |
| 7 | ‘ He always reminds me of those marvellous cavaliers , with all that hair . ’ |
| 8 | This clearly elevates me to some sort of status in his mind , although I personally could n't give a shit . |
| 9 | ‘ I go to many stately homes and museums but the library is what really supplies me with most of the things I get , ’ said Mrs Lamport , who started with the Dictionary of National Biography , Burke 's Peerage , and other books on notable families . |
| 10 | You know what really worries me about this is that early on you said that tinkers deal in antiques , and I 'm beginning to wonder whether you , as antique dealer , have got a somewhat of an interest in this matter and maybe we should be taking care of you as a possible tenant of one of our sites , but this this is a typical example of all the thin , unreasonable excuses being put up to a party that 's trying to deal with something . |
| 11 | I do not mean a sexual strength — of that I have little — but a union of all my senses simply carries me past all reflection , sometimes into a beautiful ease , sometimes into filth and futility … but always I am passive . |
| 12 | Another thing that seriously disappoints me about this life I 'm living through : the reading . |