Example sentences of "[adv] have [verb] me [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Always before he had only had to touch me for me to be ready for the final act which we 'd always denied ourselves ; there was no reason to suppose that would n't happen again . |
| 2 | First : he 's weird enough to have undressed me without thinking , according to some mad notion of the ‘ proper ’ thing to do . |
| 3 | ‘ There is n't much point ; you 're not going to live long enough to have to introduce me at parties . ’ |
| 4 | I could never understand why Crusoe left his paradise in the first place ; wild horses would not have dragged me from Juan Fernandez . |
| 5 | I remember thinking that if I had been trapped in the car , the firemen would not have reached me in time . |
| 6 | As his next letter , dated 11 January showed , the Spender book could not have reached me before 12 January at the earliest , and I wanted to keep to the length of an article . |
| 7 | It seemed to me that she should have taken my part , should somehow have defended me from my father . |
| 8 | The phrase ‘ artistic culture ’ should already have put me on my guard . |
| 9 | You 'll just have to trust me on this one , baby . ’ |
| 10 | As a result of this all pervading desire for reticence it is possible to suggest that the presentation of research papers in seminars , the creation of an undirected thesis , not to mention the production of a book , could easily have placed me in breach of Regulation 6 , which outlines the disciplinary offence of |
| 11 | Now you just have to tell me about that that peedie er shop again Vera . |
| 12 | When , sometimes , I think back on the beauty of life on a South Seas island , I start to wonder how fate could possibly have propelled me from the rain and bedraggled leafless winter trees of England to such distant enchantment . |
| 13 | To which U Saw replied , ‘ You are right , and you will probably have to put me in prison . |
| 14 | If I 'd asked you for it you 'd probably have punched me in the eye . ’ |
| 15 | Yeah but er it really has knocked me for six this time . |
| 16 | I have to say that nothing in my career so far has prepared me for this kind of work . |
| 17 | Would you ever really have believed me about my ‘ harem ’ if you had n't met them ? ’ |
| 18 | On another occasion , having been introduced to a pop personality at a cocktail party , his name — it was then not as celebrated outside his own world as it is now had left me within five seconds . |
| 19 | I feel so comfortable with your mother and the whole time here has changed me for the better . ’ |
| 20 | You wo n't even have to throw me off Water Gypsy . |
| 21 | You — do n't have to take me to Monpazier . ’ |
| 22 | You do n't have to take me to dinner ! ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Well , you should n't have grabbed me like that , ’ she said crossly . |
| 24 | I asked the governor whether I could have a visit in the probation department so that Karen did n't have to see me in the gym with everyone else and I could talk to her a bit more intimately . |
| 25 | Oh no he would n't have had me in any case . |
| 26 | ‘ It 's an even greater pity that you could n't have told me about Ling 's day off , ’ she flared at him . |
| 27 | ‘ A very large beetle ’ , she will say , as if she would n't have bothered me about a smaller one ; or ‘ The steps were slippery ’ ; or merely ( which strikes me as cryptic to the point of tautology ) , ‘ Something nasty ’ . |
| 28 | Dorcas would n't have brought me in here if he knew there was a monster about to bite me . |
| 29 | But surely you could n't have expected me to be carrying something so valuable around with me ? ’ |
| 30 | She could barely breathe , her heart pounding so hard that she had to shout shakily , ‘ Because I knew it meant you could n't have married me for my father 's company , and I wanted to find out why you 'd lied about it . ’ |