Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [verb] me [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I see you 've come to know me well , ’ responded Antony . |
| 2 | Nobody has come to see me today about that and I think it is disgraceful that the surgery has been disrupted , ’ he said . |
| 3 | ‘ It has helped to take me away from tennis when I have time to relax , ’ said Stich who has climbed back to world no 9 . |
| 4 | ‘ Ken Harris has promised to keep me up to date with the press briefings … ’ she began . |
| 5 | A whole new world of animal study lay open to me and has continued to excite me ever since . |
| 6 | ‘ He did miss it ; it 's a pity you did n't hear me asking Dana 's flatmate for her — you 'd have had to believe me then . ’ |
| 7 | He would not have presumed to tell me how to conduct the remainder of mine . |
| 8 | My family were n't wealthy , could n't have afforded to send me away till it was over , could n't have kept it secret , so perhaps it 's just as well it turned out as it did . |
| 9 | I was woken from this stupor by the roar of an engine , and naturally thought some bloodthirsty Jerry had come to finish me off . |
| 10 | I had often rehearsed the choice phrases which I would use on this very occasion but the sight of the animal restrained me ; if he had come to consult me professionally I could hardly start pitching into him right away . |
| 11 | They should have waited two years more , Henry thought bitterly , until the people had come to hate me even more than they hated Richard . |
| 12 | The qualities I had cultivated to help me through , such as diligence , such as dignity , such as keeping my peace , had been , after all , weapons which isolated me and made me loathsome . |
| 13 | And he warned his opponents : ‘ If you are going over the top on me you 've got to put me out of the game . |
| 14 | He says : ‘ If you 're going to go over the top on me you 've got to put me out of the game because I 'll be coming back for you . ’ |
| 15 | So there 's absolutely no need to feel you 've got to invite me out with you ! ’ |
| 16 | ‘ You 've got to tell me how you got her to come here — what you said to her — what she said to you — what happened to her . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Listen , you 've got to meet me tomorrow . ’ |
| 18 | We always had a tree at home , and the family congregated — my two uncles and their wives and their one-son-apiece , and Addy my father 's unmarried aunt , darling strict Addy , who had helped to bring me up . |
| 19 | I had told him that I was going to Bulith Wells , near where my parents lived , and he had agreed to drop me there . |
| 20 | Sam had volunteered to pick me up at the hospital . |
| 21 | The following afternoon they returned with a spiritualist medium who told me because of my grieving and the fact that I was in an emotional void , the earthbound entity had attempted to take me over . |
| 22 | The oil lamp beside his bed had been extinguished , and when I saw my father glance disapprovingly at the lamp I had brought to guide me up the rickety staircase , I quickly lowered the wick . |
| 23 | ah you 've remembered to tell me today have you ? |
| 24 | THE other day , as I was walking along the main street of a small town in Buckinghamshire , meditating , as so often , on time and chance , and in particular on the various chances which had combined to bring me there , I suddenly heard a loud crash , followed by urgent shouts and the desperate revving of a car . |
| 25 | Sir Tom had tried to get me out , had failed , and had then left me to my own devices . |
| 26 | I found it odd that Robert had chosen to distinguish me alone as English and wondered how he saw himself and Lili and I found it odd that Lili had chosen to lay claim to Englishness . |
| 27 | On this occasion I was more relieved than sorry , yet could n't help but smile at the ingenious way they had managed to ease me out . |
| 28 | They have threatened to beat me up , if I go to the police . |
| 29 | ‘ Some people have wanted to sack me almost as long as I remember , ’ he said . |
| 30 | and Alan 's started phoning me up and saying |