Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [verb] me [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well … maybe one , ’ and he goes on to tell me that in 1967 he once served the Singing Postman ( whose career was then in its ascendance , as a result of his seminal work ‘ Av yew got a light , boy ? ’ ) with a vodka and orange juice as he returned from a triumphant evening at the Ipswich Folk Club . |
| 2 | ( One of the teachers whom I interviewed , and who did not comment on this question , has since told me that she used it with a class . |
| 3 | ‘ Isa has not seen me since the happy news and it is that which restores me to near my old self . ’ |
| 4 | However , the evidence that has finally convinced me that the neutral theory , if not the whole truth , is at least close to the truth concerns changes in the base sequence of DNA , and not in the amino acid sequence of proteins . |
| 5 | It has just told me that the trial has proved successful and that it will shortly make the address service available nationwide . |
| 6 | A friend has just told me that you should not wear tampons overnight as it can lead to toxic shock syndrome . |
| 7 | ‘ He has just told me that if I continue in my present path , remain the fine , upstanding , clean-living boy I so evidently am , I may one day hope — wait for it — to be elected to — Gracious heavens ! — the Cullbridge Athenaeum ! ’ |
| 8 | He is a lying bastard and he has just used me and wiped the floor with me . |
| 9 | Lucy was already regretting her impulsive words , but , knowing she had to come up with an answer , she said in a matter-of-fact tone , ‘ Silas has already assured me that women will no longer play a part in his life . |
| 10 | ‘ No woman has ever aroused me as you have . ’ |
| 11 | The old lady looked at me in wonder and said , ‘ Nobody has ever asked me that before , but if you really would not be too cross I would rather you did not . ’ |
| 12 | And no one has ever loved me as he loves me . ’ |
| 13 | A sharp note has come home informing me that the costume must be made by the child . |
| 14 | There is a streamlined efficiency about his recordings which is beyond question , with everything well prepared and executed , but it has always struck me that his interpretative qualities have always lagged way behind his undisputed capabilities as an orchestral trainer . |
| 15 | Pete Burns , who may well be an admirable and likeable character , has always struck me as being the embodiment of music business sycophancy . ) |
| 16 | ‘ From our very first meeting he has always told me that he would never do anything to put the Soviet Union 's security in danger — and he knows that I would never endanger our security . |
| 17 | Mr has also asked me whether it is true that if I ca n't get what I want second best will do . |
| 18 | She has also warned me that the little porcelain giggling buddha I 've put in the tomato plant pot outside my front door ‘ will probably be nicked by the Arab boy who delivers the newspapers . ’ |
| 19 | He took me out last Sunday and I said as we were driving over to Lavenham , I said an early would be much appreciated , I said I cooked the Sunday Lunch for my lodgers , but I have n't , in fact , had any myself he said you 've got to have a high tea , he said you must have a proper meal and he ordered up salad and a a ham salad and have this and have that and have the other , where as some of them like this chap Gerald who was erm sent me by one of the other agencies the first time we went out he took me to a meal and he obviously felt that quite enough , after that he used to come out to see me after he 'd had his meal meanness , hanging onto money ! |
| 20 | He has now left me and I 'm stuck with paying a hefty joint overdraft . |
| 21 | He rings back to inform me that I 'm the rudest person he has ever met . |
| 22 | ‘ He has n't seen me or thought about me for ten years as far as I 'm aware and he could n't have known I 'd be in that house . |
| 23 | I felt slightly uneasy with the direction he took in his last book , Under Siege , in which Coonts ' hero Jake Grafton forsook the jet fuel , grease and steam-slick decks of nuclear carriers for the even more treacherous corridors of the Pentagon , and The Cannibal Queen has n't reassured me that he 's back on track . |
| 24 | It has n't surprised me that it 's happened again . |
| 25 | Whenever I have met him since , he has invariably reminded me that I taught him about the business ! |
| 26 | ‘ Violette has even advised me as to what you might like . |
| 27 | Basically , my mother did n't know how to show me and my two sisters love and she was immensely critical of us , telling us we were ugly and undermining our self-esteem . |
| 28 | Martin Bayfield has yet to convince me that he is answer to the no.2 jumping position , although his work in the rucks was good . |
| 29 | There is a tiny glass bead in the door , one of those squint-through devices where you check the daily rapist , but since the landlord has never seen me before I am content to stand there looking serious , like an estate agent with news . |
| 30 | Even the fact that disappointed old toss-pots — unable to grapple with the idea that people once enjoyed themselves without getting drunk , vomiting and hitting one another — still react to the Sixties , as a notion , with comical indignation has never convinced me that there was anything special about that time . |