Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [verb] me [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The truth is , I have had only enough to permit me to drown my sorrows . ’ |
| 2 | My very sincere thanks to everyone involved in the Art in Nature Competition — thank you for choosing me , and giving me the opportunity to spend a little time on this magic island , which so generously allowed me to paint , and to enjoy , its special beauty . |
| 3 | What you have expressed so far leads me to believe that you totally agree with the concept of ethnic cleansing concentration camps because , unfortunately , such bigoted homophobia suggests equally bigoted sexism , racism and nationalism . |
| 4 | I visited Voting Right , Laurentide Ice and Upper Gumtree , who all graciously allowed me to dip into their drink . |
| 5 | ‘ Not very much , just enough to enable me to come to Ireland . ’ |
| 6 | Raschid who is here today was President and I attended with my own Table Chairman at that time David who not only encouraged me to attend my first A G M but encouraged me to get involved involved in ri in Round Table right from the very onset . |
| 7 | ‘ You 're not seriously expecting me to believe that ? ’ |
| 8 | I then returned to the little inn where I had ordered dinner to be ready at an hour early enough to allow me to walk back to Ballachulish in time for the calling of the steamboat on its Fort William route . |
| 9 | " I am now coming to apart of Miss Lockwood 's last testament which she most particularly wanted me to read to you " |
| 10 | Although Jeff making me laugh at myself was the beginning of the end of my depression , it was n't enough to persuade me to stay . |
| 11 | ‘ You ca n't possibly expect me to carry on this sort of charade — not for that length of time ? ’ |
| 12 | ‘ You do n't honestly expect me to agree to that idea ? ’ |
| 13 | You do n't honestly expect me to agree to a statement like that , do you ? ’ he snapped violently . |
| 14 | You would n't honestly expect me to let you get away with that sort of behaviour , would you ? ’ |
| 15 | ‘ You did n't honestly expect me to stay , did you ? ’ |
| 16 | My boss did n't really want me to take three weeks all at once . ’ |
| 17 | Devereux said : ‘ Widnes did n't really want me to go and there were problems with insurance guarantees . |
| 18 | So when I was actually pregnant , although it would be fairer on me and the baby and everybody concerned if I did have an abortion , he made me know that he did n't really want me to have one . |
| 19 | I kept on thinking , he did n't really mean me to come round . |
| 20 | You ca n't really expect me to go fishing about underneath your bed if I do n't even know what I might find under it , now can you ? ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I admire your tenacity in sticking to your story , ’ he intoned , ‘ but even you ca n't really expect me to believe a word of it . |
| 22 | ‘ My parents ’ hotel is very small ; they did n't really need me to help run it . |
| 23 | It would n't even surprise me to learn that you set it up ! |
| 24 | Come on , you ca n't seriously expect me to keep my nose out of things at this stage , Ellis . |
| 25 | I suppose I can be grateful that he did n't actually order me to help , ’ she finished drily . |
| 26 | Even ten years ago the notion of the nurse as the patient 's advocate had not been formally recognised , and the stress involved in being unable to act properly in the patient 's defence was almost enough to persuade me to give up altogether . |
| 27 | But I think I knew about her and her mother long before I looked them both in the face , or heard about their existence ; knew that the half-understood adult conversations around me , the quarrels about " her " , the litany of " she " , " she " , " she " from behind closed doors made the figure in the New Look coat , hurrying away , wearing the clothes my mother wanted to wear , angry with me yet nervously inviting me to follow , caught finally in the revolving door . |
| 28 | While Gould 's first impressions were not favourable , he was determined , as he wrote to Sir John Franklin , to keep an open mind : ‘ The heat and dust of Sydney is extremable neither does the presence of Drunkards which constantly present themselves in the streets add to the interest of this place , time and better acquaintance with the country will however perhaps enable me to speak better of it . ’ |
| 29 | However , it no more obliges me to apply without question your standards to you than mine to myself . |
| 30 | Her mark-up is about so what I normally do , she has never ever told me to pay for anything . |