Example sentences of "[vb infin] [verb] me [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He would n't tell me what was going on down there because he did n't want to worry me as far as the safety conditions at that particular mine . |
| 2 | ‘ Do you mind telling me how old you are , Miss Thorne ? ’ |
| 3 | If you 'd like to tell me how many how many sixths you think there would be in a whole one . |
| 4 | I lay back in my bed , hoping that Eric was still at large and heading this way , and also that my head and guts would stop reminding me how uncomfortable they could feel . |
| 5 | The eyes alone could never have given me so profound a sense of Spring , of Maytime and the blossoming of hawthorn upon the heaths and wild cherry at the border of the beech copses . |
| 6 | The situation should have made me totally miserable , but at first it did not — at least , not in any overt or lasting fashion . |
| 7 | Simon must have bought me about five vodkas ! my throat . |
| 8 | I bought these Levi 501 's for £25 back home they would have cost me double that . ’ |
| 9 | Certainly if I had been doing all the restoration work myself it would n't have cost me so much because I am the cheapest worker in this outfit . |
| 10 | I remember , again a few years ago , visiting India and buying one or two beautifully carved tables , which had obviously been carved by an individual spending quite a lot of time doing it , and I was impressed at that stage , rather naively perhaps , that if in fact I 'd bought a plain table , an uncarved one , it would have cost me about ten times as much , for the simple reason that that would require a milling machine which was not normally available , and such was the erm economy that it was cheaper for people to do this . |
| 11 | ‘ If you wanted that you should n't have sent me somewhere tame , ’ Maggie pointed out , nearly laughing as she said the word . |
| 12 | It would 've taken me about four hours to do it . |
| 13 | Would you care to tell me how that can be ? ’ |
| 14 | ‘ So — I kept up the pretence of believing you were using drugs , hoping you 'd accept having me around all the time in a bid to prove your own innocence . ’ |