Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [verb] me [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sight of a word processor so terrifies me that I 've stuck rigidly to scissors and adhesive tape , while a genius of a lady in Twickenham makes sense of my appalling first drafts . |
| 2 | Animals rarely surprise me but there was something about the buck , once I noticed it sitting there , that froze me for a second . |
| 3 | yeah , so anyway erm , he bought the car in to tell me that , garage down here , five hundred and forty eight pound labour right and that was put on another wing , save repairing the wing , put a new on , so what I did with mine is , I put on a new wing , right , and reduced the labour by sixty five quid to four hundred and five , I make plenty on the parts |
| 4 | He said it to Andy though , and I mean I do n't , I do n't know , Andy really surprises me because like he always seems to be like , the quiet one does n't it ? |
| 5 | Posi then told me that a comm-call was coming in from the Famlio ship , but I told her to ignore it . |
| 6 | ‘ Why did n't Bernard just kill me when he had the chance ? ’ |
| 7 | Their laughter so infuriated me that I began to have thoughts of revenge . |
| 8 | HARRY DEAN STANTON once told me that during the filming of 1984 's Paris , Texas , he wandered alone into the desert after a tiff with the director , Wim Wenders . |
| 9 | Anthony once told me that he thinks ‘ bodily fidelity is wholly irrelevant ’ , ’ she quoted bitterly . |
| 10 | My parents once told me that they lived on the Canary Islands for a little while but I do n't think I was born just yet . |
| 11 | ONE OF English cricket 's most respected administrators once told me that there were three golden rules to be observed by a county recruiting an overseas player . |
| 12 | My other half also told me that she saw somewhere ( I ca nt remember ) on the weekend that Leeds have offered 1Million for Bardsley ( QPR ) . |
| 13 | ‘ The style of rugby here suits me because I love to run with the ball in the hands ’ , he said . |
| 14 | Prominent American bankers recently informed me that half of their commercial letters of credit provided for payment not against ocean bills of lading , but against freight forwarders ' cargo receipts . |
| 15 | ‘ This decision totally vindicates me and clears my name of the slur that I have lied about myself . ’ |
| 16 | The Earl of Shrewsbury once told me that when he walked in the park , Wolsey would suffer no one to come within bowshot of him . |
| 17 | A senior executive of a business once told me that he had difficulty in getting women employees to realize and make known such skills in the working environment . |
| 18 | Someone who has been training horses for years once told me that the most important thing is to keep your youngster ‘ thinking forwards ’ . |
| 19 | The school authorities were unsympathetic : the dinner ladies would only accept you into the school to see the nurse if you were on the point of death , + my teacher kindly informed me that I should n't have been running in the playground . |
| 20 | Is he aware that one head teacher recently told me that not only do they have to teach in unsavoury conditions , but they are now having to teach in unsafe conditions ? |
| 21 | Richards , who admitted United had been in touch with Francis , revealed : ‘ Alex Ferguson also telephoned me and suggested talks at chairman level might be useful . |
| 22 | Seddon also told me that a team of telephone engineers had already started work to improve the service to Foulness . |
| 23 | At one meeting a chairman blithely told me as he went on to the platform that they would have the National Anthem at the end , changing his mind without consulting me first . |
| 24 | I can trust Hugo not to treat me as I have Ken treat Wendy in Lover at the Gate and , if he did , I would never indulge him as Wendy did Ken . |
| 25 | ( One of the originators once told me that his memory of the first few weeks of the organization was of people literally waiting in turn to answer the phone every time it rang . ) |
| 26 | Next came a terrace of three three-storey houses , in the first lived the Salisburys , the name always amused me when I was small . |
| 27 | AN OLD gentleman once told me that the two things that caused the greatest rural rows were the Church and fox-hunting . |
| 28 | A friend once told me that she had never told her husband she was Jewish . |
| 29 | Dealing with customers also taught me that not every situation is the same and I had to think fast and wise when faced with a problem . |
| 30 | Reason and conscience both told me that if I were ever to have any chance of escaping successfully this was that chance . |