Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [noun] [vb -s] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hand about my waist pulls me closer . |
| 2 | I am not sure why the idea of an old woman in an unlit room reading out newspaper headlines for her grandson tickles me so , but it does . |
| 3 | ‘ My mother , ’ said Bernard , suddenly , talkative at last , ‘ is a mean-spirited , disgusting bitch ; a big fat mammy , and to think that I was born from between her legs makes me want to vomit . |
| 4 | THE next leg of my journey takes me the short drive to Regensburg and from there I follow a minor road to Cham , last stop before the German-Czech border post . |
| 5 | Not quite a Jew — although the blood of my mother makes me as Jewish as any ben Issachar — not quite a Gentile . |
| 6 | The tone of her voice surprises me . |
| 7 | The absolute naivety of his suggestion knocks me out . |
| 8 | One of his daughters takes me to borrow the telephone of a surly neighbour , who insists I pay for the call . |
| 9 | This time of the building of the gardens of our minds makes me think of the Pacific Ocean where insects spin the sunlight and the salt water , and weave them into the most beautiful oases of the sea . |
| 10 | The sinking feeling I get when I fold it up again and stuff the envelope under my bed makes me realise how much I wanted it to come up with some answers . |
| 11 | Jenny , now happily married , cried when she heard her torturer was dead and said : ‘ I 'm relieved I will never again feel my stomach churn when a man with his silhouette passes me in the street ’ . |
| 12 | ‘ The fact that you are here in my office gives me the right to ask questions and demand answers , and you 're going to tell me what I want to know , Lissa . ’ |
| 13 | The use of acrylic colours in my palette allows me in all aspects of landscape painting to correct and add light ; in fact it enables me to work more in the manner of an oil painter . |
| 14 | It 's the catch in her breath tells me she is weeping in the dark . |
| 15 | From what Adam tells me , you have plenty of other clients . |
| 16 | From what Siegel tells me . ’ |
| 17 | The thought of soiled nappies and vomit on my clothes gives me the horrors . |
| 18 | But something about your comments worries me a great deal , and that 's the fact that many women tutors , you say , have been looking at this issue , but they have n't looked at the major part of the issue , which is from the students ' perspectives and the problem that goes on between students . |
| 19 | All of us at this time began to understand what was meant by the scripture : ‘ Zeal for your house consumes me . ’ |