Example sentences of "me [adv] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tale that tickled me most concerns a trip to England — a country which Rollins caricatures as a pissing-with-rain hell hole populated entirely by spotty Morrissey-worshipping wimps who eat nothing but fish and potatoes smeared with grease . |
| 2 | To yank me clear takes the sudden , strong spine |
| 3 | I therefore proposed an account of law , ‘ normative positivism ’ , which I take to synthesize salient features of positivism and natural law thinking and which seems to me wholly to fit the nature of criminal law . |
| 4 | One such example is : ( 189 ) … the cry which made me suddenly to re-enter the dimension of distinctness . |
| 5 | It seems to me better to consider the particular relationship in hand , and see whether or not , as a matter of policy economic loss should be recoverable . |
| 6 | But if you do n't embrace EDI , relentlessly , every year , conference after conference , you will be faced with the prospect of people like me endlessly expounding the virtues of EDI . |
| 7 | I even tried laying trails of cheese that led to my feet , which she scoffed up , but she did n't trust me enough to take the cheese from my hand . |
| 8 | Much as I tried to break in several times , they always caught me and would n't let me in to see the poor people travelling . |
| 9 | The man who had shown me in reached a pewter tankard down from the Welsh dresser and filled it with champagne . |
| 10 | It had me in stitches a lot of the time and definitely was n't just for the kids . ’ |
| 11 | With the leave of the House , it remains for me only to thank the Select Committee on Energy for allowing us to hear the Government 's reply . |
| 12 | ‘ Promise me only to stay a week . ’ |
| 13 | But the next day , afore I 'd gotten fettled up — for indeed , miss , I 'd no heart to sweeping an' fettling , an' washing pots ; so I sat me down i' th' muck — who should come in but Maister Weston ! |
| 14 | He was shaken , but unhurt , and merely ordered me not to say a word . |
| 15 | Saying this to me was like holding a red rag to a bull : the more anyone told me not to do a thing , the more I tried to do it . |
| 16 | ‘ Would you tell me not to touch the little Degas horse that stands on my desk ? ’ |
| 17 | When he finally pauses to suck some air , I say , ‘ Me not telling the cops is worth ten thousand quid , I reckon . |
| 18 | ‘ Promise me not to wear a switch again , ’ he said , after a fool 's pause . |
| 19 | I remember he once told me not to move the head too much as it weighs 22lbs . |
| 20 | I suppose now you 're going to get timid , and tell me not to rock the boat . ’ |
| 21 | Then I remembered Stephen Roskill telling me not to believe a word Mountbatten said or claimed unless it was corroborated from other sources . |
| 22 | You tried to convince me not to involve the police . ’ |
| 23 | Guy told me not to lower the bridge for anyone except the villagers until he gets back . |
| 24 | At first he tried halfheartedly to appeal to me not to send the story to England for ‘ the sake of the side ’ . |
| 25 | The police came within half an hour and the officer was sympathetic although he advised me not to expect the thieves to be caught . |
| 26 | What I have advocated is possible and not just a dream , but it would be remiss of me not to consider the nightmare scenario of colliery closures at a time when we are increasing restructuring grants by £1,000 million . |
| 27 | She 's open-minded , and a single parent : maybe that has something to do with it and with me not having a husband it made it easier for her to come in and see me sometimes . |
| 28 | Obviously I ca n't do anything dramatic overnight , due to circumstances , what with my little girl being a ward of court , and me not having a home . |
| 29 | She told me not to make a fuss over such a small thing . |
| 30 | They may , let me just explain the track then , in those situations they may well be investing in the depots , maintenance and so on , but let me just |