Example sentences of "[verb] me [adv] [det] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes he irritates me so much that I could scream at him . |
| 2 | This was around the time he first started seeing me as more than just an employee . |
| 3 | Did you want me so much that you gave them up ? ’ |
| 4 | Before I 'm finished you 'll want me as much as I want you . ’ |
| 5 | So when I was ushered into his consulting room , it was his welfare that concerned me as much as my own . |
| 6 | From outside it looked like a faded bell but within was a brilliant and sumptuous chamber of fiery gold adorned with most exquisite tapestry , and it moved me as much as I was moved when I saw the dome of the Blue Mosque at Isfahan , the most beautiful building I have ever seen . |
| 7 | It moved me so much that I started to weep , and to this day I 'm often physically moved by great paintings . ’ |
| 8 | She helped me as much as she could , but I knew it would take a long time to reach Estella 's level . |
| 9 | This pleased me very much because I was longing to hear her play the instrument . |
| 10 | These recent watercolours , larger , bolder and stronger than his earlier work , pleased me so much when first I saw them that I offered him an exhibition at Abbot Hall . |
| 11 | I 've stayed on to help but not once have you met me so much as half-way . |
| 12 | Andrew Bergman told me later that when they went out there to make the deal , they felt like the expedition that goes into the jungle to bag King Kong . ’ |
| 13 | They were new to the Colony , but my mother told me as much as she knew about them in advance . |
| 14 | That belittling word Du , after you have addressed me as Sie so respectfully , showed me what you think of me , and affected me even more than contemptible . |
| 15 | The actual experience was n't frightening me so much as what I 'd been told . |
| 16 | He did n't give me so much as a glance . |
| 17 | I resigned from the family planning about seven years ago when my husband retired , as I say because he used to help me very much and when he retired and my children had all married I felt it was time that I should retire too . |
| 18 | This troubled me so much that when , in the morning , I found Curtis running the polisher over the hall floor , I asked him , ‘ Did you hear that in the night , Curtis ? |
| 19 | But his questions were at once crucifying me as much as I knew they were of help . |
| 20 | There is , of course , an enormous difference between the private/public demands of the two examples : writing my own private notes protects me rather more than having publicly to make suggestions on how the teacher as ‘ patient ’ should , say , knock on a door . |
| 21 | Tell me as much as you can tell to a maiden aunt , and let's see what can be done . " |
| 22 | All this mental harassment has affected me so much that my doctor has warned me that I 'm of the edge of a nervous breakdown . |
| 23 | If it makes you feel any happier , I will tell you that it did not cost me as much as a bouquet of flowers would have done . |
| 24 | A lot of poetry seems to me very good in the tradition , but it does n't move me very much because it does n't have personal vibrance to it . |
| 25 | ‘ They thanked me very much and said how pleased they were to be so well looked after , then they kicked us in the appropriate part of the anatomy . ’ |
| 26 | It would surprise me very much if we agreed to a boycott , ’ said one Italian analyst . |
| 27 | Bag-dragging had exhausted me so much that I went back to bed and slept until afternoon . |
| 28 | It interested me so much that I 've lost , or won , if you like , the whole day of reading it at the busiest period with the printers I know , waiting for copy ! |
| 29 | Mr Essex says music is a two-way thing : ‘ My pupils inspire me as much as I inspire them . ’ |
| 30 | " I thought he loved me as much as I loved him . " |