Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] me [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Could it have been one of the footpads who tried to ambush me earlier that day ? |
| 2 | The old peasant woman whom I visited told me how bad things had been before the Liberation — that she had had 8 children , of whom all but three had died . |
| 3 | Later she phoned to tell me how much lighter she felt , as if a burden had somehow been lifted from her shoulders . |
| 4 | ‘ Well , he came to Trantridge once and tried to show me how wicked my life was . |
| 5 | ‘ At the time , you remember , you 'd given me very little information to go on . |
| 6 | That time she 'd told me how lonely and abandoned she felt when she was with her husband , those confessional words , ‘ lonely and abandoned ’ , which usually would have me cringing all over the place , made me shiver . |
| 7 | I could n't remember the last time he 'd shown me so much affection . |
| 8 | When , not too long afterwards , an emissary came to ask me how much money I wanted not to look too closely into Thieme 's affairs , I knew what many an ‘ investigative ’ journalist knows : for some people , there are no rules , no codes they do not think they can break . |
| 9 | You forgot to tell me how much I owe . ’ |
| 10 | This was around the time he first started seeing me as more than just an employee . |
| 11 | The stench and the bloody process we watched put me off tinned fish for many months . |
| 12 | By luck he survived all this and afterwards his Canadian friends decided to adopt me as one of the lads . |
| 13 | He thought I was cross , so he got flustered and started telling me how much he loved me , and that was n't what I wanted to hear either , though of course in one way it 's what I always want to hear . |
| 14 | ‘ Did I tell you I 'ad to run away in the end because he got to fancy me too much ? |
| 15 | I knew that I was fearful of describing the girls I 'd met , because I did n't want to fall into the same traps and judgements we had been talking about ; on the other hand , I was not being totally honest in leaving out their descriptions , because in fact how they looked interested me very much . |
| 16 | Even so , it did strike me as peculiar that someone who lived by French literature should be so calamitously inadequate at making the basic words of the language sound as they did when her subjects , her heroes ( her paymasters , too , you could say ) first pronounced them . |
| 17 | I decided to work with the market women 's organization , ASUTRAMES , because my mother had a market stall and I would help her , and because the community had taught me how important it was to claim our rights . |
| 18 | Once , when very drunk , Simon had phoned me late one night to try out a new concept , the ‘ Uzi-O-Gram ’ , which had the catchline ‘ Shoot up your girlfriend 's wedding , just for fun ! |
| 19 | My practical mastery had made me acutely aware of the boundaries which separate those inside the institution from those excluded from the specialist knowledge of ‘ doing the business ’ and I was more than ever aware of the suspicions which would have been aroused if I had introduced questions of an academic nature , or had distributed questionnaires . |
| 20 | I had just over forty pounds in the bank and not much prospect of raising another bean , but the silly man 's attitude had made me so angry . |
| 21 | I noticed it especially on one occasion when I was beset with problems which had made me very unhappy . |
| 22 | Mr. Bonanza had told me earlier that day of his intention to get the girl away that night , but unfortunately he had a stomach disorder which caused him to postpone the trip twenty-four hours . |
| 23 | Bag-dragging had exhausted me so much that I went back to bed and slept until afternoon . |
| 24 | If I was talking to you on the street and you had asked me where such-and-such a street was , that was all right . |
| 25 | No , well like I said I mean I did n't think mine had tanned me that much until I saw the photos from Alan 's wedding , I was like a nigger . |
| 26 | Merlyn Rees , Gregor Mackenzie and John Cunningham , all of whom were friends who had served me as Parliamentary Private Secretaries , rallied at once and with Tom McNally , my Political Adviser , formed a small inner team to conduct the contest on my behalf . |
| 27 | All the stresses of Thursday and then having to entertain Nicola had left me truly cream-crackered . |
| 28 | Unfortunately , whatever remnants of my eidetic ability remained made me entirely unsuitable for this particular therapy . |
| 29 | He wanted to show me how much he 'd got out of them . |