Example sentences of "[prep] me [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Critics seem to have it the other way round , so there 's a lot of stuff talked about me using different styles , but there does n't seem to be much said about whether it works , or whether it 's done with taste , or whether the end result is worth having . |
| 2 | in making it possible for me to do part-time research . |
| 3 | It is not for me to help Scottish Tories in those circumstances , but I suggest to them that it may have something to do with the way in which the Government treat Scotland in legislative terms . |
| 4 | It is not for me to offer helpful advice to the right hon. Gentleman , but I shall do so : when in a hole , one should stop digging . |
| 5 | Council put the central heating in when we got advanced in years and when it became necessary in the doctor 's opinion for me to have central heating because I had a heart complaint . |
| 6 | Given the excellence of the cause which benefits from the sales of ‘ Ruby Trax ’ and the generosity of the artists etc , etc , it would be churlish of me to rubbish individual tracks — although there are one or two here which have tempted me sorely — so I will pick out some highlights for you . |
| 7 | I think it took a lot out of me learning colloquial English . |
| 8 | People only wish to see doctors when they are sick , but the National Health Service has not encouraged people like me to seek preventative health advice . |
| 9 | Would he care to have lunch with me to discuss certain aspects of the naval war ? |
| 10 | This seems to me to represent good grounds for believing that functionalism itself may well be true . |
| 11 | Some of these proposals seems to me to make great sense . |
| 12 | He said : ‘ It makes sense to me to prevent ill health , so that people do n't have to go into hospital in the first place . |
| 13 | They waited beside me making worried encouragements until the ambulance arrived from the direction of Reading . |
| 14 | ‘ Nerina 's always on at me to wear western clothes , ’ confided Mrs Khalid , ‘ but I like to be comfortable . |