Example sentences of "me [adv] [verb] that [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It did not take me long to wish that we Christians might have a similar preparation for confirmation and acceptance as a full worshipping and working member of the Church . |
| 2 | ‘ I shall not , ’ said Sally-Anne grandly , ‘ reproach you , Dr Neil , for rescuing me merely to ensure that I shall carry on skivvying for you . |
| 3 | I mean let me not allege that you 're one of the worst , but you say ‘ Dear Motorists , erm may we congratulate you on the acquisition of your new vehicle . |
| 4 | Let me not suggest that he could not work freely and spontaneously when he chose , as we see in the late The Gipping from Blakenham , 1977 , a watercolour which displays admirable freedom as opposed to recklessness . |
| 5 | But it is impossible for me not to feel that my body is other than I , that I inhabit it like a house , and that my face is a mask which , with or without my consent , conceals my real nature from others . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ It 's quite enough for me just to know that you 're going . ’ |
| 7 | First of all , let me just say that everything I am going to tell you is the complete and absolute truth . |
| 8 | ‘ First of all , let me just say that everything I am going to tell you is the complete and absolute truth . ’ |
| 9 | It was a green scarf but let me quickly say that it was bereft of religious significance . |
| 10 | I had held on to Lili , and Syl had brought me home insisting that our mothers should stay and go on to dinner with Lili and Robert and the gallery owner as planned . |
| 11 | Anyone in the city who knew me also knew that I could be found there , at some time every night , if I was on the planet . |
| 12 | It pleased me immeasurably to know that he could sense the difference now , the promise of fulfilment , which would be the sweeter , it seemed to me , for having been so long deferred . |
| 13 | ‘ There was I , feeling flattered at the attention you were paying me , when all the time you were just testing me out to see that I would n't dry up on the air ! |
| 14 | It upset me really to think that I just was n't interested . |
| 15 | Let me now assume that you are being considered by a prospective principal and are seeing him for the first time . |
| 16 | You wanted to wake up with him right there in the room and to turn to him and quote the next line of the film right back at him , to whisper it to him , make me almost believe that we are a pair of young lovers without any shame , and I do n't mean that in some tragedy queen way , but in order to say of Boy that truly I do think that it is a beauty like his that makes it all worth while , and I do feel that if we are fighting for anything , and if I was asked in a questionnaire what it was I was fighting for ( and believe me I do feel like I am fighting , more and more I think that ) , then I would answer , beauty . |
| 17 | But the whole experience left me ruefully feeling that it had perhaps been a mistake to publish a report about them . |
| 18 | Is my hon. Friend aware that the chief constable of the West Riding and one of his policemen wrote to me recently to say that there are no outstanding matters with the Home Office and that they welcome the £3.16 million to fight crime and the refurbishment and establishment of new police stations in Bradford , Leeds and Pontefract ? |