Example sentences of "it [vb mod] [vb infin] me [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | It may help me more indirectly by alerting me to the fact that I may be wrong , and forcing me to reason again to double check my conclusion . |
2 | How ironic that it should take me so long to know how I feel about a man and then in that same moment realise that he really is the bastard I first took him for ! |
3 | Something like that , eighth of a million , it 'll do me anyway . |
4 | Needs a bit of cleaning up , but it 'll do me all right . ’ |
5 | thing and that 's without a pump , so to set up it 'll cost me probably a thousand and a bit and I want and then I 'll need to have the rest of the money left over to survive |
6 | but then again it 'll take me longer to find that one this morning |
7 | I do n't like it and it 'll annoy me now we 're working together . ’ |
8 | It 'll get me away from them . |
9 | All the magic had died from it , and it was but a husk of itself ; for all my art , it could tell me only one thing — that no one could restore it to its place except a child not yet born , and born only for that task . |
10 | It 'd help me more if you keep Anna cool . |
11 | ‘ It would make me very jealous and insecure . ’ |
12 | For example , it would make me very happy if I could see you every night across my dinner table ; if when I woke in the morning , I would hear you wish me ‘ Bonjour , chéri ! ’ in that so charming accent of yours . |
13 | ‘ I 'd share your gin , ’ the Bishop 's wife said , ‘ except that it would make me further inclined to cry . ’ |
14 | No need to stiffen up like that — you must see that it would affect me professionally . ’ |
15 | I was surprised , certainly , but I did n't think it would affect me too much . ’ |
16 | it would throw me completely if you put , if you changed some of the number plates over . |
17 | It would ruin me completely . ’ |
18 | All I can say to you is that if it is to be good news , it would give me more pleasure than I can say ; and if it is to be bad — I have gone through it , and Anne , and many others , and one does survive and go on , though you think you never will … |
19 | ‘ The way I left was very , very frustrating and a lot of my friends concluded that it would finish me forever in management . |
20 | ‘ The way I left wasvery , very frustrating and a lot of my friends concluded that it would finish me forever in management . |
21 | But if we were doing as we do a lot of jobs like that and I had to go round and estimate every one it would cost me more to go round and estimate than it would to do the jobs . |
22 | It would surprise me very much if we agreed to a boycott , ’ said one Italian analyst . |
23 | It would follow me here … |
24 | Every day , after school , I would release the bird and it would follow me home . |
25 | Only Ards winning it would please me more — but we 're not the finished article yet . ’ |
26 | It would attack me suddenly , quite unpredictably — and it left me fighting for breath . |
27 | Abruptly she let go of the last protective remnants of self-deception , but , fearing questions she could n't answer without exposing the full extent of her vulnerability , she rushed on , ‘ I felt guilty to begin with , but I did come to terms with it eventually , and anyway , my parents had encouraged me to stay with radio even though it would take me away from them and they knew what was happening to Dad . ’ |
28 | It is tempting to delve further into the subject ; but I am afraid that it would take me far outside my main theme , and so , reluctantly , we must leave matters there . |
29 | You 're very perceptive , because there are things playing on my mind , and yes … it would help me so much if I could talk them over with someone . |
30 | I did a year 's course , I thought it would get me somewhere . " |