Example sentences of "[noun] [that] [pron] [modal v] [verb] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | The proud fighter who took every challenge , was overcome with fear that they could mock me with their chat , but delighted to be noticed . |
| 2 | There is still a cult following for the Leger and the Normale , and though I sympathise with it , it 's among the D-series fanatics that you 'll find me swapping gasps . |
| 3 | Since I was imprisoned because of you , it is only common human benevolence that you should help me now . |
| 4 | In theory , you could see me in the Sunshine Home for Impoverished Journalists in 40 years ' time , tripping the nurses over with my Zimmer frame in the hope that they 'll let me father their child . |
| 5 | On the way to my next appointment with Denis King , a piano and some Joyce Grenfell songs , I stopped at a nearby theatre to smile winsomely at the box office boys in the hope that they 'd recognize me , in spite of my Titian disguise , and sell me some tickets for their sell-out play . |
| 6 | I had the somewhat faint hope that he might lead me to the place and permit me to stand where Balboa had stood — on the very peak which John Keats , with the kind of monumental mistakenness permitted under the principle of poetic licence — declared was occupied by : |
| 7 | However , I am doing as the Daily Mirror suggested , and am contacting you in the hope that you can give me the answer . |
| 8 | She wrote : ’ I am writing to you in the hope that you can help me with the injustice which has occurred . |
| 9 | I can not believe my luck that nobody else had the sense to carry you off but that you should still be there for me and that — ’ Well , that could be taken two ways , on second thoughts that might not be the thing to say , no ; ‘ my luck that you should want me in the same way that I want you . |
| 10 | He started off by taking Jack Hylton — an old friend of mine and a leading member of the board of TWW — to meet some of the independent television proprietors , and at that stage he suggested to Hylton that he might use me as an intermediary . |
| 11 | So that I can go through my designs and make quite certain that there is not one collar , not one cuff detail , not the slightest influence that they could accuse me of copying from them . |
| 12 | But it was not until we were in the playground that they could tackle me . |
| 13 | ‘ I could phone him with a problem and he had such insight that he could steer me through it , although he knew very little of the problems over here . ’ |
| 14 | so if you had a date in November that you could give me , time to get people together |
| 15 | ‘ I was afraid for a moment that she 'd strike me . ’ |
| 16 | That 's the day that you 'll need me the most . ’ |
| 17 | I 'm a fool if I believe for one minute that he 'll give me a fair chance … |
| 18 | Come , come and swear on the moon that you will love me always … ’ |
| 19 | well you remember er when we sat down this evening I said there was a couple of ways that you could help me , one of these ways was that er you might be able to introduce me to one or two of your friends and I can run through the same ideas with them . |
| 20 | Say it was the beginning of a feeling that you would like me . |
| 21 | And that caught the interest of everyone straight away er , budgeting , how to be able to look at banking etcetera , and I said well and I want you to do that first so I do n't mind mainly because I was gon na work wi with Anne about the , with the environments , and then it 's science , could n't cover with the with the environment that she would like me in tutorial to do and er she has n't , well it 's not her now , unfortunately , I think it 's Sue that is supposed to be working with me cos I want to do something on recycling of rubbish etcetera within the school and do a big sort of er project on it . |
| 22 | I suppose I half-hoped that he would zap me with extinction the way he had zapped June with orgasm the night before but his horrible middle finger was folded around a reeking cheroot and showed no sign of flexing . |
| 23 | It could have been just relief that someone would have me . |
| 24 | ‘ I have to take your word that you 'll leave me alone ? ’ she asked tautly , tilting her head in enquiry . |
| 25 | Either I accompany you to your room and wait while you have your shower and do whatever else you feel necessary before we leave , or I wait here , in the lobby , and you give me your word that you will join me within the hour . ’ |
| 26 | Any that you used to go in a lot that you can tell me about ? |
| 27 | But it will happen … not quite yet but at the point where he will no longer hinder me with the pretence that he would have me stay . |
| 28 | However , I was immediately transferred to Glynn , a technical guy who took my fax number with the promise that he would send me a drawing that morning of the necessary mods . |
| 29 | He had pictures in his office that he would show me of well-equipped armed bands that he said were taken down in the middle of Nicaragua . |