Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [vb -s] [prep] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've watched my muscles waste away — the skin just hangs off me , unable to shrink any more . |
| 2 | The counterpointed duet of miniature heavy breathing and onward bashing life-pump forever continues beside me in defiance of the social laws of 1973 and reminds me how innocently fresh is young life , to be soon stained and bleached in alternating frenzy before it even has time to realise just how freshly innocent it is . |
| 3 | ‘ The cat never looks for me . |
| 4 | that overhead currently does for me ? |
| 5 | I sometimes find myself using them yet long years you know when I thought I 'd forgotten them and any younger person just looks at me in amazement and has no idea what I 'm talking about . |
| 6 | If I jump with surprise when a dog suddenly barks at me , my behaviour is no less expressive than if I shout at it to shut up . |
| 7 | Sara , who was born in Bollihope , will appear on That 's Life on March 14 , singing My Baby Just Cares For Me . |
| 8 | A key phrase here seems to me to be ‘ gentle figure who handles his firing weapon ’ . |
| 9 | My cousin probably shares with me only one-sixteenth of my genes , so that to sacrifice myself for her would be an activity of less fitness than sacrificing for my sister . |
| 10 | She lays the ashtray on the ground beside the bed then turns towards me , |
| 11 | This fellow Dickerly says to me , ‘ Can you give me a bit of advice , officer ? ’ |
| 12 | As the spend over the three years will be more than that — last year 's spend was £17 million and I expect this year 's to be £25 million , making a total of £42 million — I suppose that I could give my hon. Friend the assurance that he seeks , but even if our figures were so way out that I could be caught on that commitment , when I consider the matter next May — assuming that the burden still falls to me to do so — I would have to make the same calculation as I made this year . |
| 13 | If we go on to books erm , I think that Longman performance is exceptionally good erm , of course for book business it 's very much first half , second half , most of the profit coming in second half , but er , erm , Longman only dropping seven percent on the year before seems to me a particularly good performance given the environment and in fact it generated more operating cash flow than the year before . |
| 14 | If it is appropriate for the courts to adopt some kind of policy in order to protect government against itself ( and I can not say that the idea particularly appeals to me ) , it should be one that distributes the loss fairly across the public . |
| 15 | " I would be grateful if you would tell her that this house also belongs to me . |