Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [verb] me [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 'd better tell me before you run out of breath , lovey . |
| 2 | ‘ You 'd better leave me before I lose my temper with you , girl , and say something I 'll be sorry for . ’ |
| 3 | Just as unc so a step " up " and a step " down " added together leave me where I started with zero displacement ) . |
| 4 | When I was in police custody the doctor came in to see me and gave me some tablets and I 'm asking you for some now . ’ |
| 5 | The next day Professor Pearn , who was working in intelligence , came in to warn me that the Japs were breaking through from Taung-gyi and that it was only a matter of hours before they would reach Maymyo . |
| 6 | I 'd forgotten you 'd already classed me and my sister as experienced femme fatales , luring men to their doom ! ’ |
| 7 | It got a roar of appreciation which I can still hear , and afterwards Stephen Sondheim came over to ask me if I 'd had the dress made to go with the remark . |
| 8 | I looked out of the window and it was the back garden of Dr Jane 's house , and when Mrs Pitt came up to serve me and I complained Dr Jane laughed , and it was really Dr Jane all the time and the whole place was horrible and dark and dirty and when I got outside to follow my friends the ones who were usually in the dream there were n't any people and we were in a sort of studio and the village and the inn it was so obvious now I felt a fool for going in and sitting down and expecting to be served was the crudest sort of cardboard stage set like a model for a child 's history lesson and the colours were horrible and it smelt of a sort of horrible glue and — — |
| 9 | Aye , well I seen him , He came up to see me when I was in , |
| 10 | ‘ There were a few kids who came up to meet me and said that they were n't going to vote until they heard what I had to say . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Bumface came here to tell me that he was going to fight the War Office and that he was not having the WO Instruction for me to report forthwith to the Ski Battalion at Bordon . |
| 12 | His voice was surly , but suddenly he twisted round to face me and took off the headphones , and I thought he was going to apologise for his rudeness of the previous night , but instead he demanded to know if it was true that we were out in the open ocean and were not planning to make a landfall for some days . |
| 13 | He 'd never asked me that before , but in fact my religion had been important to me all along ; he only asked me that day because I had my head covered . |
| 14 | Yes , okay , well look if you 'd actually asked me before we started , I could have actually found the number . |
| 15 | ‘ There was one fat mental specialist with a queer glint in his eyes who kept on asking me if I heard voices . |
| 16 | ‘ I did n't hang about long , but I saw enough to convince me that all that rubbish about Melanie 's frigidity was pure invention on your part . ’ |
| 17 | People that I have known through the years in the music business always knew where to find me and I never moved address . |
| 18 | Indeed , I have every reason to believe that Father did not regard me as decorative at all . |
| 19 | There was not enough action and they were just too predictable , that they simply did not scare me but surely the point of a horror book is to scare you ? |
| 20 | Three sons I had given him , and still he did not love me as I was so desperate to be loved . |
| 21 | I know Maria did not tell me that the food was often burnt and uneatable , or that they could not sleep because the beds were too cold . |
| 22 | She did not tell me that the poor hungry children had to wash with ice in the morning , and walk through wet snow to sit for two hours with icy feet in a cold church on Sundays . |
| 23 | She did not tell me that many of the children at the school were ill . |
| 24 | He did not recognize me but I knew he was the gentleman I had met on the stairs when visiting Miss Havisham . |
| 25 | He nodded and did not follow me as I got off the train . |
| 26 | He recognised himself , but did not recognise me when we switched on The Railway Children some months ago . |
| 27 | He shook his head doubtfully as if he did not believe me but did n't want to be harsh about saying so . |
| 28 | Not at the time no it did n't it bothered me when it was done because I thought you 've probably done something and the outcome would be that so at the time it did n't bother me because I was n't interested in the situation |
| 29 | I heard your interview with Calder yesterday , you see , and it did n't strike me that you two were … close . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ You did n't tell me that your cousin was dead , ’ Luke said without preamble , his voice very quiet . |