Example sentences of "the [noun sg] of [verb] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Someone must pay for the Privilege of having me spend valuable time in directing the operations of bone-headed policemen like you ! |
| 2 | He refused to take the responsibility of letting me go with only fifteen , and intended to recall his men . |
| 3 | You might say it as a boast — perhaps in the hope of rendering me envious or jealous . |
| 4 | It never occurred to me that other children were n't spoiled as a matter of course , the way I was , and it would be years — and my father would be dead — before I understood that the expense of sending me to a boarding school was just an excuse , and the simple , sentimental truth was that they knew they would have missed me . |
| 5 | I would have liked to have gone to Venice , where there was a faculty of languages , or Bologna , where I could have read Economics and Commerce ; but the war was on , and the expense of keeping me in a distant town was beyond the means of my parents . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm afraid you wo n't have the pleasure of seeing me onstage . |
| 7 | However natural it is , it still has the effect of making me cry when I catch sight of myself and nurses have visibly cringed upon seeing them . |
| 8 | This may all sound very trivial but it has the effect of making me almost hate my body to the extent that I feel ashamed to let John see me naked . |
| 9 | From the time that my colleagues in the House of Commons did me the honour of electing me to be their leader I have felt that I was in the position of a trustee ; and even throughout the war the one thing that I have aimed at constantly has been to preserve . |
| 10 | " When you did me the honour of appointing me to the Mastership of Stockport School I was led to suppose that the Income , inclusive of Ten Pounds paid by your Worshipful Company , amounted to nearly Three Hundred Pounds per annum , and from an Enquiry , however , during my Residence here , I have had the Mortification to find that the whole Salary was not more than £25 10 10½d , so that it was impossible for me to remain in the Situation without a Prospect of Church Preferment in the Neighbourhood , which I have no reason to hope for . |
| 11 | Annabelle 's father , George , and her mother , Martha , have done me the honour of offering me the opportunity to make a speech on this wonderful occasion and propose a toast to Annabelle and Steven . |
| 12 | You 'll probably want to talk about it without the embarrassment of having me here to listen . |
| 13 | There I found the author of Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick sipping mineral water , tapping a hand-drum and singing to himself in 17th-century verse . |
| 14 | In the case of upshot , it is the illocutionary or perlocutionary force , what the speaker is trying to do with his or her words , which is made explicit , and this may be prefaced by utterances like : ‘ Are you trying to annoy me ? ’ or ‘ What 's the point of telling me this ? ’ or ‘ I was only trying to be friendly ’ . |
| 15 | What 's the point of telling me what I should have done ? |
| 16 | ‘ I mean — what 's the point of dragging me back here , to my own home ? ’ |
| 17 | The title of Tie Me Up and Bind Me Robin was derived from a quote from Maid Marion in the wholly innocent 1955 series Robin Hood . |
| 18 | Mr Broadhurst was by now in the habit of picking me up from Varndean Grammar on Wednesday afternoons , accompanying me to Pool Valley , and then on home by bus . |
| 19 | I 've been known to book a court and play tennis with Caroline ( who has the habit of beating me ) . |
| 20 | ‘ Why did you go to the trouble of hiring me if what you wanted were the same drab old styles of before ? ’ |
| 21 | " He could have given me a ticking off , considering that he 'd gone to the trouble of telling me that you were coming . |
| 22 | You go to all the trouble of finding me a bed in a night shelter and you then get me so drunk they 'll refuse point-blank to let me in ! ’ |
| 23 | Harold Wilson did consult me from time to time , in the sense of asking me to ascertain from the Biafrans what their attitude would be towards a visit by him and matters of that sort , but my interventions were of a pretty futile nature and achieved no results . |
| 24 | Other people may be frightened by your blunt arrogance , but do n't make the mistake of including me in that category … |
| 25 | Tony Greenbank returned to clean an obvious corner groove line and made the mistake of asking me to test a hold . |
| 26 | A few days later , a lady who lived across the road made the mistake of asking me what sort of bird it had been . |
| 27 | He made the mistake of letting me in on the ground floor when he was offering a Pissarro . |
| 28 | ‘ Do not make the mistake of teasing me , Maggie . |
| 29 | The bastard tried to pay me for it , the only way he could get excited was by the thought of buying me . |
| 30 | Either he did not wish me to get into trouble or , more probable , he did not relish the thought of giving me so much gelt — sixpence . |