Example sentences of "[verb] me [adj] [noun] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cancer has taught me that life is n't a dress rehearsal , this is it and you only get the one chance . |
| 2 | Mr Blackadder tolled me this buk is ful of jokes that are abowt as funny as getting your bottom caut in a bacon slicer . |
| 3 | No all he 's given me each day is paper money plus about one fifty . |
| 4 | Another point which has given me some concern is that the present book is supposed to be a directory of Cabinet Committees . |
| 5 | Not much late I asked Dr Ethelwynn Trewavas her opinion , and she assured me two species were involved , and kindly showed me photos of the teeth of both species , which even I could see were different . |
| 6 | Dr Kepepwe assured me active steps were being taken to trace those who had been intimate with me during the ten blank years : my parents , my academic colleagues . |
| 7 | My mother told me that Dad was on one of his frequent business trips to America and would be home in a couple of days . |
| 8 | ‘ I picked it for you because Jeff told me that blue 's your favourite colour . ’ |
| 9 | One of the numerous girls in the film , Catherine Schell , told me that Lazenby was never difficult or temperamental . |
| 10 | He said : ‘ Jaguar people told me some valves were already bent through test-driving . ’ |
| 11 | Then , before she could protest again , he turned to her and added , his eyes like steel traps in the dark lines of his face , ‘ And what at the moment is causing me some concern is one very simple but crucial question — are you bolshie , unreliable and irresponsible , too ? ’ |
| 12 | If you 're gon na give me any money are you ? |
| 13 | I can remember me first Mother 's , what she called , automatic washer . |
| 14 | But a friend , who arrived from Baghdad in the middle of February , informed me that morale is now high . |
| 15 | He had always told me that education was a waste of time and he could n't see the point of it . |
| 16 | Ms Hurst , who works at Unilever 's environmental engineering department in Port Sunlight , Wirral , said : ‘ The family has told me that Berend is making great strides towards a full recovery . |
| 17 | Letterman had previously told me that flashback is a device which must be used sparingly , yet now he was a plausible advocate for this treatment . |
| 18 | The next day , some well-planted flowers and a nippy little spider that jumped quite considerable chasms to get to where it wanted to go showed me that juice was still to be had for Life and , quite soon after , I found bits of myself on a train looking out at the curious modern mixture of silver birch trees growing on slag heaps . |
| 19 | During the damp November evenings when the gas lamp flickered in the wind , nothing would convince me that danger was n't lurking in the eerie shadows . |
| 20 | They tell me that Tamsin is out on a boat at an all-night party with two or three hundred other people and a stack of booze . |
| 21 | You tell me that Bill is at home and either he is drunk or he is sober . |
| 22 | ‘ The sun taught me that history is not everything . ’ |
| 23 | Their Northern Ireland president is Billy McCormick from Craigavad who tells me that membership is 200 and rising , and new recruits are always welcome . |
| 24 | Leo Lloyd was monastically devoted to his job — it is difficult for me to realise it was all done in his spare time — … he persuaded me that acting was infinitely fascinating . |
| 25 | But the thing that fascinated me last night was the statistic about Gillette do you know they said when Gillette started When Gillette started doing the erm Gillette Cup , it cost them five thousand a year . |
| 26 | And do n't , ’ she said with sudden vehemence , ‘ do n't tell me that suffering is part of the Almighty package . ’ |
| 27 | Please do n't tell me next week 's the twenty ninth . |
| 28 | But them ones Bob erm Pam bought me last year was it last year or the year before ? |
| 29 | What gives me greatest pride is that it means Courtaulds will end the century in the same business it started . |
| 30 | She had seen the film , too , and I received a letter some time later from her husband , Mr Hallows , telling me that Odette was not in the best of health and they were moving house . |