Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I asked ( I was trying to fit in what we 'd heard of him ) about his having passed out of the Ecole Normale so high , which had rather impressed me . |
| 2 | If you had only given me my wife and children : Dayenu ! ’ |
| 3 | Simply to say ‘ I was going to speak to you about a wonderfully deserving and little-known charity but the producers have only given me twenty-two seconds because they 're cutting straight to a sponsored lard-slice in Abergavenny , so I wo n't . ’ |
| 4 | This is another aspect of my work with film that has so fascinated me : the physiognomy of a great orchestra when the players are really concentrating , really absorbed in the process of music-making . |
| 5 | So all together given me about five pounds . |
| 6 | I 've only heard me . |
| 7 | ‘ They have all given me a tremendous amount of help , and I know that any help or guidance I want in the future will be there . |
| 8 | ‘ As you have so rightly reminded me , ’ he went on , ‘ I am on holiday ; so for that matter are you . ’ |
| 9 | " Then had n't you better let me in ? " |
| 10 | Two assailants were pressing Agrippa whilst the other three had apparently forgotten me and were intent on bringing my master down . |
| 11 | Dusk was falling swiftly , as it always does in the tropics , and the silence that had so impressed me by daylight suddenly became noisy with the night life of the jungly-type trees in the mountains behind-the bull frogs , strange bird cries , the never-ending background of the cicadas . |
| 12 | Her cheeks , which had been so white the previous evening , now had colour , and instead of sagging with exhaustion she radiated the extraordinary vitality that had so attracted me at our first meeting on the Cutty Sark . |
| 13 | You 'd only seen me a couple of times , and then you were n't exactly falling over yourself to speak to me ! ’ she spat back . |
| 14 | I could n't possibly know , but that outburst , understandable as it was , greatly disturbed me . |
| 15 | ‘ If you 'd only told me — ’ she began . |
| 16 | The Alexander Technique , which is a way of allowing the body and mind to work together in order to avoid muscular tension , has constantly helped me to be calmer in stressful situations . |
| 17 | The others all called me Sillie Sissie Willie . ’ |
| 18 | So I could n't I could n't charge him twenty cos he 'd only charged me he 'd only charged me twenty so I had to sell him back to him for a tenner you know . |
| 19 | So I could n't I could n't charge him twenty cos he 'd only charged me he 'd only charged me twenty so I had to sell him back to him for a tenner you know . |
| 20 | Many of the constituency cases with which I have dealt in recent months have especially worried me because they seem to show that the financial hardship now experienced by many students is especially severe for those who come from low-income families . |
| 21 | I was surprised at the violence of his remorse — after all , he had only hit me — and I remember thinking , quite irrelevantly , how much more true to life the old dramatists were than modern ones , making their characters utter loud cries and throw themselves about the stage in moments of anguish , rather than deliver their parts poker-faced , through stiff lips . |
| 22 | I 'd been hurt — the man I thought loved me had not only jilted me and stolen my money , but admitted that he had n't wanted me in the first place . |
| 23 | ‘ They have always said they will care for Jennifer completely , and until now they 've only allowed me to stand in for them , but it 's taking its toll . |
| 24 | ‘ The authorities have only allowed me a little time with you . |
| 25 | I have this day received a letter from Dearest Mary about that which has so distressed me , your unbelievable decision to place Allegra in a convent — |
| 26 | " She 's left me some money and all her furniture and things , " Sara went on , " but she 's only left me half the house . " |
| 27 | Like him , my children have had to stand by helpless and in absolute panic while their father has brutally beaten me in front of them . |
| 28 | Therefore , I decided that I had the clue to something that had long baffled me , that whereas Levis 's strict division of the world into sensuous particulars and more intellectual abstractions — I hope I 'm being fair to him , I 'm caricaturing and shortening _ whereas this was applicable to the modern period , it probably was n't to the period I decided , I think , roughly before the eighteenth century , and with this in mind I then turned to the mysterious last plays of Shakespeare that we 've been talking about earlier and tried to see whether the sense one gets in those plays of love , for example , not as simply a logical construction for talking about the way people behave in relation to each other , but as some kind of spiritual entity existing prior to the human subjects in the play , whether that sense could be in some degree confirmed and explained by an investigation of the general use of universals in the period and earlier . |
| 29 | Therefore , I decided that I had the clue to something that had long baffled me , that whereas Leavis 's strict division of the world into sensuous particulars and more intellectual abstractions — I hope I 'm being fair to him , I 'm caricaturing and shortening — whereas this was applicable to the modern period , it probably was n't to the period , I decided I think roughly before the eighteenth century . |
| 30 | ‘ He 's only beaten me once today . ’ |