Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [vb -s] me [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Methinks I should contrive to send her a message , suggesting that she pays me another visit . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I do not romanticise agony as a virtue , nor imagine that it makes me superior . |
| 4 | When he licks you that 's his way of sayin' ‘ I likes you and you makes me happy ’ . ’ |
| 5 | Look , I 'll promise you one thing : I 'll not marry Kitty McKenna , not even if she sends me another tie . ’ |
| 6 | And if she gives me any of her pernickety , finicky quips I 'll throw it over her . |
| 7 | Well for a number of reasons , that 's one of them that 's one spinner and one yarn , and he offers me all of those colours , ex stock , in sort of ten days delivery and er one carton at a time , if I wanted . |
| 8 | And he sells me this fucking massive two two air rifle which you 've seen have n't you ? |
| 9 | I 've told him I do n't love him and he calls me daft , saying he 's got enough love for both of us . |
| 10 | He come in laughing one day , look at this Paul , look at this and he shows me this big long letter that this teacher had wrote on . |
| 11 | On Sunday , all afternoon it 's flipping football and it drives me crazy ! |
| 12 | I live in an area of high unemployment and it drives me mad when married mothers go back to work just to get out of the house . |
| 13 | And it does me good to get out of the house . |
| 14 | and Boots own cleansing lotion for my mascara and that 's it , only buy mascara , eye liner and lipstick and blusher and that 's it and it does me six months of the year |
| 15 | ‘ I know the age of everything in the garden , ’ he says , ‘ and it brings me great pleasure . ’ |
| 16 | My television licence is a colour television and it costs me eighty three pound for this year . |
| 17 | And it worries me still that we , we ai n't shifting him enough er |
| 18 | This hardly tallies with the sentiments expressed in a letter in the possession of the College in which Coleman , writing on 24 February 1813 , gracefully declined an invitation to become President of the London Veterinary Society : ‘ Gentlemen , I received your letter , and it gives me great pleasure to see so much zeal for the improvement of the veterinary art in Gentlemen , whom any & every Teacher might well be proud to call his Pupils — I shall most willingly grant the use of the College Theatre for the examination and discussion of such points as may be considered by you most important for the advancement of the Veterinary Science … you rightly observe that a number of minds concentrated on one object can not fail to improve any art far beyond the reach of any individual and I have no doubt that the Public will ultimately derive great benefits from your united exertions . |
| 19 | And it gives me great pleasure to personally invite you and your guest , to spend a luxurious weekend on the Craigendarroch Country Estate , just a few miles from Balmoral in the heart of Royal Deeside . |
| 20 | You look very lost , hung up there among Royalty and aldermen , and it makes me homesick to look at you , so I do n't , to often . |
| 21 | ‘ If it takes me seven centuries , I shall do it . ’ |
| 22 | well I thought well if it checks me another six months at least when they say have you got any experience , but as I say I 'm still in touch with Mencap and I 'm still in touch with mine and I 've also er put in for , what they call them mobility insistence for the Princess Marina which again an education and you just go in and be , be a friend to somebody and you take them out for an hour , er a couple of hours , you , and you 're paid five pounds eighty for a two hour session |
| 23 | I will fight Sipotai only if he attacks me first . ’ |
| 24 | If he stims me much more , I know that I may seek such stimming again , however unwillingly . |
| 25 | We 're giving him wh If he gives me three or four hundred quid . |
| 26 | But she makes me uneasy . |
| 27 | But it gives me great pleasure to introduce Mark Lennox Boyd , the parliamentary under secretary of state , the foreign and commonwealth office , a position he 's held for some time . |
| 28 | It is natural for mathematicians to be the first to study problem solving but it surprises me that other disciplines have been so slow . |
| 29 | I ca n't nail it down , but it makes me uneasy . ’ |
| 30 | But it makes me sad . |