Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] [verb] me [det] " in BNC.
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| 31 | the park Then you love me half the night |
| 32 | I work out the odds against the cargo being lost , based on weather reports and piracy records for the last twenty years , then I add a bit , then you pay me some money based on those odds — ’ |
| 33 | ‘ Then she told me all her hopes and fears and about her First Experience — I 'll say no more than that — but she remembered it vividly . |
| 34 | So I said well I 've never been in the situation but I said if it , if it was , if I was in that situation I , asked to see the manager or person in charge , make an offer to pay for any damage that was done and if that did n't suffice then I would say well I am the care officer for a Mencap home and the only thing I can do is say will you er get in touch with my boss and it 'll have to be sorted out from Head Office and she said perfect , you could n't do anything better , then she give me all different things that we 've gone into the next day and the patient 's done everything down the bed , what would you do ? |
| 35 | Then he gave me half a crown . |
| 36 | ‘ But then he gave me half an ounce on credit . |
| 37 | Yeah I know but he did say that even though agents I 'm not giving you this and then he showed me all the things you know to sort of prove that he was doing it . |
| 38 | He was in a fix — he had bought two papers and merged them together , and I was n't around , I was in New York , and I did the logo for him in a hurry , but I did n't have time to design a newspaper , nor was it the kind of thing for which he could pay a big design fee , so he described it on the phone and then he faxed me some pages of the existing papers , and I said well what you have to do is look at the old London Times and do that . |
| 39 | I wonder why she told me that then ? |
| 40 | I 'm awful , I mean , that 's why I got up , you know when you phoned me this morning , and said , I am sorry , have I got you out of bed , and I was like really grateful , because I ca n't stand sleeping in . |
| 41 | ‘ Why you sent me that copy of your father 's letter . ’ |
| 42 | That rarity , an album without a filler — admire every aspect as Owens finger-flicks his way through the Stax-happy , gospel croons on a couple of things Sam Cooke would have loved to wrap his larynx around , and opts for the more brooding approach on the let's do crunch of ‘ Why You Treat Me This Way ? ’ — ‘ Blues Soul ’ is remarkable not only for the performance of its outfront star , but also for that of the Pete Wingfield-led back-up squad , which nary places a quaver in the wrong place , along with Mike Vernon 's knowing production . |
| 43 | ‘ He told me when he gave me this one . ’ |
| 44 | Pressed more closely he told me that for a number of years Laura had lived an almost schizophrenic life , symbolized by two quite different wardrobes — one for her parents , ‘ the Goody-Twoshoes suits ’ , the other for what she believed to be her real self . |