Example sentences of "and [vb -s] me [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's been very pleasing and offers me very attractive playing options . |
| 2 | He reaches for me and holds me tight , and the tremble of him is tremendous . |
| 3 | I turn away so I ca n't look at her , but she leans over and looks me straight in the face . |
| 4 | Crilly cups my face in his hands , strokes my hair and kisses me long upon the lips . |
| 5 | I 'll tell you , Crilly , about my first trip to Scotland and the men in chip shops who call you ‘ Hen ’ and the lads wearing green Celtic scarves at lunchtime and broad pointy-horned cattle and graveyards macabre with the tilting of tombstones caked with moss and weeds , sheep grazing and weaving amongst them , and a coastal fishing town in Harris where a night sky shimmers only to itself and I am without friends from , the real world and I listen only for the sound of the tin whistle while the boats rock gently in the jetty and the sky rages from beige to black and craggy mountains dart until forever and a fisherman stands , stunning and alone , strong and unnamed , and leads me slowly into that everchanging sea . |
| 6 | I love it because it means I get to lots of other countries and see different people and different cultures , and I hate it because it is such a hassle and keeps me away from my family and friends . |
| 7 | Oh divest thyself of all these trappings of thy power — that power which strews thy path with dead and keeps me apart from thee . |
| 8 | I am greatly touched that she thinks of me and remembers me even in the state of forgetfulness of human affairs in which she now finds herself . |
| 9 | When he emerges from the caravan , Pa 's reaction is not quite as imagined , and strikes me as rather odd . |
| 10 | ‘ She talks of little else and makes me quite vexed with her at times . |
| 11 | I catch a bit of radio while I 'm changing cassettes just north of Perth and hear something called I 'll Sleep When I 'm Dead by Bon Jovi which is n't a patch on Uncle Warren 's song of the same name and makes me more than reasonably annoyed . |
| 12 | ‘ This breaks my heart and makes me very , very angry . ’ |