Example sentences of "[noun] [vb mod] [verb] me [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | BELVILLE : [ aside ] That such a girl as this , cottage-born , who owes everything to my family and has an absolute dependence upon my pleasure should find me resistible . |
| 2 | ‘ that Dersingham 'd consult me first . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Miss Abberley used to give me these chocolates , you see , Christmas and Easter , regular as clockwork . |
| 4 | But if Eliot in the poem has adopted the personality of a fertility god , this god is a peculiarly Prufrockian one in the sense that for all ‘ The constant flame shall keep me warm , ’ he remains not simply a minor divinity , neither being nor meant to be Prince Hamlet , but also , for all the lovers ' attentions , an impotent ghost , ‘ A bloodless shade among the shades/ Doing no good , but not much harm ’ . |
| 5 | Seven lifts would keep me amused for about two hours . |
| 6 | Joan and Dennis will tell me all about it I 'm sure and I expect I will get a Christmas card from Kylie and her mother and father , ’ she added . |
| 7 | But er , I mean I believe er perhaps these gentlemen can put me right , that in fact the pla the present plans that have been put in are very similar to the original plans , before they were amended er in consultation with the |
| 8 | My mum might get me one of those . |
| 9 | I might go for a stroll to get up an appetite — the exercise 'll do me good . ’ |
| 10 | Do you think the council could find me another flat ? |
| 11 | ‘ But the boss used to give me some right stick and told me I was no good to him lying in bed or on the treatment table . |
| 12 | ‘ But the boss used to give me some right stick and told me I was no good to him lying in bed or on the treatment table . |
| 13 | A hundred feet would see me clear of the danger zone , and this distance I covered foot by foot , walking sideways with my face to the rocks and the rifle to my shoulder ; a strange mode of progress , had there been any to see it . |
| 14 | ‘ I want this country to be so proud of me that the Queen will give me one of her crowns . |
| 15 | The driver could take me all the way to Inverness if I wanted . |
| 16 | Having replied Yes with much confidence in his initial request I did not think I could take two steps to the rear , so I hastened to add that the job would take me some considerable time as ti would be my spare-time/spare-time job , consoled myself with the thought that it was the first time that I had made anything to be used in a church , so it would be a challenge . |
| 17 | ‘ Maybe some wine will do me good . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ But I really do n't think your voodoo can give me all the things I want in life . ’ |
| 19 | My sister ate , but I refused , not out of sacrifice nor because I was resisting temptation ( I firmly believed that meat would make me ill , as my mother said ) , but because I knew — though this formulation is the adult 's rather than the ten-year old 's — that the price of the meal was condemnation of my mother 's oddness , and I was n't having that . |
| 20 | I could n't explain that I would have had to leave in a month or so anyway — but I pointed out that in fact I was n't well , had n't been for quite a while whatever he chose to think , and that a rest would do me good . |
| 21 | Once again , I 'm stuck , as trapped as I was in that tree — and I do n't think a well-timed lightning bolt from Lil will spring me this time . |
| 22 | ‘ A brandy and a short rest will put me right . |
| 23 | so Sam can bring me that in after Christmas aunt , no-one , aunty Amy will bring it ? |
| 24 | but we used to take them to the pictures on Saturday afternoon my mum used to give me nine pence |
| 25 | We used my sister used to shove me one side , my Dad used to say to her , Go fetch them horses , out the field . |
| 26 | And my reverie had begun to include some delightful visions of how Sergia might make me welcome when I was interrupted . |
| 27 | ‘ Mr Miller 'd skin me alive if he could see you now , ’ she said in a pitiful voice . |
| 28 | As I got older and people used to bring me injured birds to look after , I was always very careful of them and did n't approach without the leather glove I wear when working with birds of prey . |
| 29 | I thought ‘ interesting ’ and kept it for pet for about three weeks ; I called it George , and people would give me extra helpings ‘ because you 're eating for two now . ’ |
| 30 | I still have dark days , but now I have hope and I know that the Lord will keep me safe . |