Example sentences of "[noun] [modal v] [vb infin] me [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If Squit could see me now ! ’ |
| 2 | The tide had turned , and the ebb would help me downstream . |
| 3 | I decided that further thinking would get me nowhere . |
| 4 | ‘ I work in sales and am sure none of my clients would take me seriously if I did n't turn up in a sharp suit . |
| 5 | sh and she said that that shampoo will last me approximately three to four months . |
| 6 | They 're not very happy , they ai n't been happy for a while , but it 's getting worse , wh is , what is them now is , you know I say things to Colin , and Co I mean , Colin 'll tell me like , you know , you know , over there , and er , he 's latest thing is , they built this little office . |
| 7 | Now that I 'm feeling a bit calmer , I can see that it was amazingly presumptuous of me even to imagine that Madeleine might love me enough to sacrifice all the luxuries she 's used to , just to be with me ! |
| 8 | Clearly I have misunderstood and I am sure that the Secretary of State for Scotland will correct me shortly . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm told that flattery will get me everywhere . ’ |
| 10 | Since you needs must drag me here , I should have liked to see this Hotspur men talk so much about . ’ |
| 11 | I took him to about twenty houses and had made love to him on the splintery boards of about half of them before he decided that this was not a suitable town for his mother to live in — too quiet , too far from London — and the estate agent , whose car had been left standing in leafy side-streets for too many unprofitable hours , gave me a week 's wages and said he thought another job might suit me better . |
| 12 | My reprieve could make me somehow feel quite snubbed . |
| 13 | ‘ During Nick Faldo 's Open in 1990 , we mowed it three times a day , ’ Woods would tell me later , touring the course in his Land Rover . |
| 14 | ‘ If only my daddy would see me now ! ’ |
| 15 | Following this he states , ‘ Live a thousand years , I shall not find myself so apt to die ; no place will please me so … ’ . |
| 16 | Hopefully Oldham will prove me right … that SHOULD be an ok game as they are too crap to come and defend for 90 mins , so might try and attack us ( especially as its on the box ) . |
| 17 | Lil should know me better after all these years . |
| 18 | Someone who comes in by the day would suit me admirably . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ No , thanks , a glass of water will do me perfectly . |
| 20 | I sometimes find it difficult to believe that other lesbians will accept me as one of them . |
| 21 | ‘ And though some people may damn me irrevocably and for ever , in the nature of things my profession and my work will open new relations to me , that much fresher for not having been frozen , hardened , and made sterile by old prejudices . ’ |
| 22 | thought it could be so easy to put me thoughts on a piece of paper could help me so much I think that 's what I thought patterns structured |
| 23 | A fortnight in Bromley would do me splendidly hmm ? |
| 24 | I was n't — I was n't at all sure your aunt would want me here again , but of course I wanted to come . |
| 25 | Even in these latter years , ‘ Only three old women at church yesterday , ’ my father would greet me hopefully , as cars streamed past in all directions . |
| 26 | He says ; After the farewell tour I concentrated on acting and my future and I did not want to sing Dr Hook 's songs but I now understand people will want me too . |
| 27 | At any rate , your lordship will know me again . ’ |
| 28 | That learned attitude in its turn may make me uncomfortably edgy and aggressive when situations . |
| 29 | I feel my present responsibilities are as much as I want to cope with and , from now on , promotion would take me away from teaching children . |
| 30 | I might not ask again until it was too late ; my native caution would betray me just as effectively as Arsenio and Osvaldo 's natural daring had subverted their judge-ment . |