Example sentences of "have [adv] [verb] me [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like him , my children have had to stand by helpless and in absolute panic while their father has brutally beaten me in front of them . |
| 2 | The Alexander Technique , which is a way of allowing the body and mind to work together in order to avoid muscular tension , has constantly helped me to be calmer in stressful situations . |
| 3 | Bill 's story has finally convinced me of one thing — the nature of Mandy Smith 's ‘ mystery illness ’ . |
| 4 | Irina said , ‘ Hello Alfred , hello Ludens , hello Alfred Ludens , Franca has just compared me with a toad . ’ |
| 5 | The person who has just sent me into an inner panic of humiliated pride , anger and singeing hurt may have less responsibility in the matter than I may be inclined to attribute to them . |
| 6 | In a letter to Dr Bennett in Sydney from the ‘ Upper part of the Torrens ’ on 23 June 1839 , Gould remarked , ‘ Capt. Sturt has just joined me on our way to the Murray … |
| 7 | Knowing Martin what John has just told me about him if I did n't know him I do n't think it would me anything ! |
| 8 | That last message about C*ntona , has just reminded me of something . |
| 9 | Carole Swan has just rung me from her lovely home to tell me what happened last night in the Hotel … ’ |
| 10 | He has already stopped me from saving up for a large format SLR camera ; my trusty 35-mm model will do well enough for the closeups of butterflies and flowers that interest me . |
| 11 | I do not think that anyone has ever accused me of being Ebenezer Scrooge . |
| 12 | Béroff 's Vingt Regards was the set I first came to know well ( I vividly remember receiving it as a Christmas present the year it was first released ) and it has always struck me as the finest of all the recorded versions . |
| 13 | For half of the twelve tracks here , the Labèques use acoustic pianos ( that has always struck me as an oddity , by the way : a piano , or a guitar that was n't acoustic would be damned difficult to record ; the only non-acoustic piano that I can think of is Joseph Cooper 's dummy keyboard ) ; for the others we are told they play ‘ MIDI Grand pianos & Synthesisers ’ . |
| 14 | She was — is — what people call a handsome woman , a phrase which has always struck me as a bit patronising . |
| 15 | He has always impressed me as a man of great good humour , and with a wonderful fund of stories . |
| 16 | It has also aided me to be more relaxed whilst driving . |
| 17 | Dear Father , It is a great pleasure to write to my father as my mother has often told me about him , and I hope to be allowed to get to know him better … |
| 18 | What has frankly surprised me about the last decade is the way in which social scientists who make no claim to a Christian profession have been talking openly about the relevance of religious values to our current economic problems in the Western world . |
| 19 | Chris Patten has now joined me as a party chairman held responsible for winning an election by running a bad campaign ! |
| 20 | I placed Geoffrey Wilkinson , a Principal Inspector of Accidents ( who has now succeeded me as Chief Inspector and head of AIB ) , in charge of the investigation . |
| 21 | A biochemist colleague has kindly provided me with a bottle of hydrogen peroxide , and enough hydroquinone for 50 bombardier beetles . |
| 22 | Indeed , my legal representative has strongly advised me against making it . |
| 23 | ( ‘ Your good influence and help has sometimes draw me from the enwrapping pleasure of scenes which before held me alone with them . ' ) |
| 24 | The spectacle of modern investment markets has sometimes moved me towards the conclusion that to make the purchase of an investment permanent and indissoluble , like a marriage … might … force the investor to direct his mind to the long-term prospects , and to those only . |
| 25 | Your good influence and help has sometimes drawn me from the enwrapping pleasure of scenes which before held me alone with them … |
| 26 | I look like a refugee from a Verdi opera , stranded in the damp gentle valleys of South West England , where no one has yet introduced me to wellington boots or the useful strategy of invisibility . |
| 27 | The realisation rips through me : my little act of derring-do has truly landed me in the shit . |
| 28 | I do n't deserve that forgiveness , but the God who loves me who has actually died on the cross for me has actually taken all of that away and more than that has made me new , has actually raised me as a new life with him . |
| 29 | Let me ask you about one particular artist , whose name has actually escaped me at the moment |
| 30 | Building this genetic algorithm for code-breaking has certainly left me in no doubt that evolution is quite capable of performing miracles in no time at all . |