Example sentences of "me [adv] [verb] that [pers pn] " 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 | ‘ It 's quite enough for me just to know that you 're going . ’ |
| 6 | It was a green scarf but let me quickly say that it was bereft of religious significance . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 ! |
| 10 | It upset me really to think that I just was n't interested . |
| 11 | Let me now assume that you are being considered by a prospective principal and are seeing him for the first time . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | But the whole experience left me ruefully feeling that it had perhaps been a mistake to publish a report about them . |