Example sentences of "me [adv] [adj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It makes me incredibly angry to think what a brainless , totally impossible , ‘ perfect ’ image of womanhood the media present , and that so many of us , me included , are intelligent but ca n't seem to separate ourselves from wanting those ideals . |
| 2 | What took me so long to take you off the lowest shelf ( were they trying to hide you ? ) in W H Smith , and take you home ? |
| 3 | This is one reason why its taken me so long to find out about this mailing list . |
| 4 | 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 ! |
| 5 | ‘ It 's taken me so long to get ‘ Gunnell ’ up there on the giant Olympic scoreboard , I think I 'm going to carry on being called that for athletics purposes . ’ |
| 6 | Apologising for not being in Northern Ireland since his first concert three years ago , he added : ‘ I 'm sorry it took me so long to get back . |
| 7 | It 's taken me so long to write about just two years . |
| 8 | I 'm sorry it 's taken me so long to write to you . |
| 9 | ‘ It made me so angry to see her stepchildren cast as innocents while she was made out to be a dragon . ’ |
| 10 | I have spent most of the last year in what was once Yugoslavia , much of it in the beautiful and doomed Republic of Bosnia Hercegovina and it has left me scarcely able to think , far less write about anything else . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'd share your gin , ’ the Bishop 's wife said , ‘ except that it would make me further inclined to cry . ’ |
| 12 | Perhaps you think me unduly harsh to express these things so openly . |
| 13 | and it took me as long to put the dinners up and clean the shoes and I thought well he 's swimming , so I got his togs and put 'em in his bag and |
| 14 | I think they found women like me really hard to cope with . |
| 15 | It makes me really happy to come up with an observation that I know will hit home . |
| 16 | It seems to me quite arbitrary to disallow man-made machines this ability , when it is accepted that men are machines , and that such an unknown machine as a Martian may also perceive meanings . |
| 17 | It seems to me quite unrealistic to divorce the buying of the chocolate from the supplying of the records . |
| 18 | ‘ And it makes me quite happy to have a young person with me . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ He gave me much time and attention but did not allow me to waste a minute ; he left me fully free to express my feelings and thoughts but did not hesitate to present his own ; he offered me space to deliberate about choices and to make decisions but did not withhold his opinion that some choices and decisions were better than others ; he let me find my own way but did not hide the map that showed the right direction . |
| 20 | Er did n't take me too long to do that but certainly did about my my views on advertising . |
| 21 | You 've known me too long to think a dumb thing like that . |
| 22 | I hope it do n't take me too long to get home — I could do with summat to eat . |
| 23 | If I could manage to absorb a tablet in between the bouts of vomiting it did stop the sickness and bring a pain-free sleep — but it left me too exhausted to do anything about enjoying life . |
| 24 | Only I saw him sigh , for Lili and Robert were looking not at him but at the walls , and he found me too negligible to bother to disguise his ennui . |
| 25 | ‘ A gang of youths has made me too frightened to go out ’ |
| 26 | I 'd seen him earlier that night , here at the house , behaving in a way that made me very anxious to find out what he was doing here on Moila . ’ |
| 27 | It has interested me very much to learn from the Air Historical Branch of the Royal Air Force that after the war , since nothing had been heard of Warrant Officer Crane 's Stirling , its crew and S.A.S. passengers , a search was made of the Morvan region . |
| 28 | ‘ It makes me very sad to think about the children in the world who are suffering . |
| 29 | I did n't really think it was going to take me very long to go through that , sorry . |
| 30 | Erm first of all , as I grapple with this problem over the weekend , it did seem to me very difficult to make any sensible assessment of integration on a at a strategic level because so clearly it is a site specific matter . |