Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] [verb] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Oh , Merry & Co pay me a lump sum to stage the mystery . |
| 2 | Clearly it was I who should have spoken these words , but already I had a feeling that I knew what the brown paper and the ribbed cardboard concealed , and I was n't going to say a word until time or circumstance compelled me . |
| 3 | It started off all in Melior , with the text — the text I think was in Melior or Melior tells me that the text was originally in Melior with ordinary Melior headings , then when it appeared it was Nimrod with Melior bold . |
| 4 | As he wrote years later in his long unpublished memoirs , ‘ hazard or Providence made me knock on the door of the Hôtel Terminus of the Gare du Nord . ’ |
| 5 | And it did bring it home to me that we have got a major security problem in this building and in our other municipal buildings and quite frankly the ease with which anybody can come into this building at virtually any time of the day or evening astounds me . |
| 6 | Instead I retreated for a caffeine hit to Reception where Beverly advised me : ‘ Divorce her . |
| 7 | ‘ Some chap or other told me once , ’ Artemis 's father suddenly said , ‘ that somebody or other discovered America before Columbus or whoever it was who did , but decided it was best to keep it under his hat . ’ |
| 8 | Am I sufficiently interested in my question or topic to keep me interested over the necessary time period ? |
| 9 | She lost all sense of direction and , ‘ I never knew quite where Raynor took me , ’ she said afterwards . |
| 10 | Apart from that fucking business card they have no forensic evidence ; no weapons , bloodstained clothes or even minutiae like hairs or fibres to link me with any of the attacks . |
| 11 | Maybe I should get Michael or Cheta to take me into the tower with them when they deliver meals . ’ |
| 12 | I am never surprised when after a holiday a colleague or neighbour tells me ‘ I had a very nice holiday but I must say it 's nice to get back to work ’ . |
| 13 | ‘ I am dumbfounded that Ferguson tells me I could n't have spoken to Edwards , but the person I feel really sorry for is Gary Bull . |
| 14 | Asked us ower fur drinks and when we got there — I mean Ah 'd had a bath , splashed on some of the Givenchy for Gentlemen that Isabel got me for ma Christmas and got into ma designer tracksuit just to be casual like … |
| 15 | ‘ I would n't have known about it at all , except that Mum sent me a little note to tell me he 'd passed away — in his sleep , she said . |
| 16 | Andrew Neil is very litigious for an editor ( ‘ Randy Andy Gets a Grandy ’ , you may remember , as The Sun put it in January ) , so although Pamella told me lots of … interesting things about him , I 'd better tread carefully . |
| 17 | ‘ Felipe is just angry that Mitch touched me and that I did not repulse him quickly . |
| 18 | Oh , here we got the the lists that Connie gave me , |
| 19 | the lists that Connie gave me , |
| 20 | Now , the topic that Sheila asked me to talk about was skin care . |
| 21 | Any reports that readers send me will be treated with complete confidentiality . |
| 22 | Although Jeff making me laugh at myself was the beginning of the end of my depression , it was n't enough to persuade me to stay . |
| 23 | ‘ I mean , this is all stuff that Andy told me , so it could be just a story , but I 'd bet that up to that point it 's all true . |
| 24 | I do think that Ken fancied me , and he actually said he thought I was beautiful . |
| 25 | ‘ A small part of the fault was mine for not noticing that Eleanor considered me as a great deal more than her employer . |
| 26 | Nor were the books that Edward showed me the kind of thing I would normally have read — not , at least , as anything more than a casual browse among the dustier nooks of human eccentricity . |
| 27 | ‘ Is this yours ? ’ he says , holding up my new hat that Marie bought me . |
| 28 | I liked that picture so Marie let me cut it out and stick it on the wall . |
| 29 | I walk with a frame so Karen gave me a hand and took me round and introduced me to people . ’ |
| 30 | The rooms had ancient crusty mouldings and an iron-handled bell-pull for calling servants from the basement , now inhabited by Thin Lizzy 's road manager , a man who had the misfortune , so Eva informed me , to have hair growing out of his shoulders . |