Example sentences of "[verb] [that] [pron] [vb -s] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | If , however , your answer is specific ( e.g. ‘ She has a temper tantrum when I insist that she obeys me , for example when I tell her to eat up her breakfast ’ ) then an effective procedure can be worked out . |
| 2 | ‘ Methinks I should contrive to send her a message , suggesting that she pays me another visit . ’ |
| 3 | I do not romanticise agony as a virtue , nor imagine that it makes me superior . |
| 4 | ‘ But surely you know that he prefers me ? ’ |
| 5 | He said : ‘ When we play like that it makes me wonder why we are in the wrong half of the table . |
| 6 | The magazine folded and we all got drunk on Bulgarian wine and I made a speech about going out to penetrate the government and cut the arteries of the police state right at its heart — you need Bulgarian wine to say things like that it makes me faint to think of it now . |
| 7 | He thinks that he can lure me into making a statement that will have him attempting to give a poor man 's reading of ’ Erskine May ’ and saying that he wants me to lay the document before the House . |
| 8 | I just feel that it tells me nothing about them . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ But that does n't mean that it suits me , Aunt Louise . |
| 10 | can I say that it gives me particular pleasure to introduce Steven not least , because Steven Hughes is one of our colleagues in parliament who does a fantastic job for the trade union movement . |
| 11 | ‘ Did Cheryl really say that she loves me ? ’ |