Example sentences of "me [conj] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He could quite easily have asked to meet me or my noble Friend the Under-Secretary of State for the Armed Forces — with whom he has been corresponding , as he said — at the Ministry of Defence , where we could have discussed the matter in a more suitable environment . |
| 2 | I am sure I would have gone to the Crusades and done my bit , although that might just have been the racist in me or my natural desire to loot . |
| 3 | You used me in Seville and you have n't even the decency to deny it — for me or your own self-respect . ’ |
| 4 | I suppose one would call him a hypochondriac , because Dorothy had once told me that her earliest memory was of her father standing in front of the looking-glass saying , ‘ I am a dying man ’ ; her mother 's face had that bearing-up look one sees on the faces of those suffering with their feet . |
| 5 | I tried to remember what my sister Mary had said about ignoring old wives ' tales and I tried to put them from my mind , but after that I often caught myself glancing at Granny 's picture and it seemed to me that her black eyes came alive and followed me round the room . |
| 6 | She told me that her other maid went mad in the spring . |
| 7 | ‘ I spoke to her the other day at a charity meeting and she was telling me that her poor brother died recently . |
| 8 | She broke down when she told me that her little boy ( now six years old ) had asked every year to be taken to see Father Christmas in a nearby store , and every year she had had to disappoint him . |
| 9 | ( It was at this time , I think , that she told me that her own mother , means-tested in the late twenties , had won the sympathy of the relieving officer , who ignored the presence of the saleable piano because she kept a clean house , with a cloth on the table . ) |
| 10 | Knitters often tell me that their biggest problem is time . |
| 11 | Then , as he drank the rest of his coffee , he said , ‘ Mr Woodall tells me that their veterinary nurse is going to leave . ’ |
| 12 | He told me that his civil servants had said that this was impossible , and adumbrated the problem to me . |
| 13 | There is a streamlined efficiency about his recordings which is beyond question , with everything well prepared and executed , but it has always struck me that his interpretative qualities have always lagged way behind his undisputed capabilities as an orchestral trainer . |
| 14 | My hon. Friend should accept from me that his powerful case is ample justification for his award as Back Bencher of the year and why I believe that a serious error was committed in West Bromwich on Saturday . |
| 15 | Erm , I 'm not sure if this is wind up or not , but John informs me that his middle name is Russell , and his dad wanted to call him Jack Russell |
| 16 | He told me that his younger brother , Georges , had died aged just twelve , in Neuengamme having received fifty different injections of bacilli in medical experiments . |
| 17 | ‘ At my local bookshop , called Ex Libris , in the Shambles at Bradford on Avon , ’ Kington writes , ‘ the man who looks after it once confided to me that his favourite browsing book when no customers were around was Desert Island Lists , which contained the records and books and luxuries chosen by everyone who had been on the programme in the Roy Plomley era . |
| 18 | ‘ By the way , why did n't you tell me that our mysterious door led to the laboratory at the back of Doctor Jekyll 's house ? |
| 19 | So it seems to me that the existence of death , the fact that organisms do n't live forever , and they certainly are not perfected in terms of personal fitness or survivability , because they get diseases and they die suggests to me that our modern insight into evolution acting on individual genes is , is correct . |
| 20 | mhm It just occurred to me that our Civil Service , in its higher reaches , is also notoriously recruited very largely from the ranks of people who studied Latin and Greek at universities . |
| 21 | It seemed , however , that she was not , for she suddenly switched the conversation by saying , ‘ Your husband tells me that your temporary housekeeper is leaving soon and your maternity nurse is being replaced by a young nanny . ’ |
| 22 | You may tell me that your personal life is not my concern and that it is not for me to comment — and you would be justified however , I can not help but make it my concern because I have your future very much at heart . |
| 23 | ‘ But father told me that my first priority was to get the farm paid for . |
| 24 | It seemed to me that my personal disaster was so great that hitherto I had not allowed myself to understand it . |
| 25 | They kept me in hospital for a week , even though after the first day they were able to tell me that my violent indigestion following my curry debauch had not dislodged — or even seriously inconvenienced my small passenger . |
| 26 | No , no I ca n't I just ca n't eat so I 'm not forcing myself to eat , what I 'm trying to do is only to eat the right things and I must start vitamin supplements I think I 've got the age when I probably need that , I mean , this cold is a warning to me that my immune system is not as strong as it ought to be , I should n't have had another cold so soon after getting rid of one ! |
| 27 | Will he assure me that my unemployed constituents will no longer be dealt with by faceless bureaucrats but will be dealt with by individuals who are clearly identifiable and that my unemployed constituents will be treated as individuals ? |
| 28 | I went er for a hearing test er last week and they tell me that my left ear 's a bit full up . |
| 29 | Then , suddenly , he relented and told me that my proposed interview with you was recorded in your desk diary , but that it had been overlooked . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Though I sometimes think Violette is more like me than my own daughter . ’ |