Example sentences of "me a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have far fewer friends and I am partially sighted , which makes me a lot more vulnerable ; but whatever happens physically , I have always said that it was what happened mentally that mattered . |
| 2 | I have far few friends and I am partially sighted , which makes me a lot more vulnerable ; but whatever happens physically , I have always said that it was what happened mentally that mattered . |
| 3 | It seemed to me a duty to pay homage to those Jews who , in desperate conditions , had found the courage and the skill to resist . |
| 4 | It took me a long time to accept the fact that now I should not be killed — that I should be one of the survivors . |
| 5 | Give me a goddess 's work to do ; and I will do it . |
| 6 | My twin sister is a nurse and I suppose all the blood and thunder of things took me a different way . |
| 7 | It gave me a temporary Equity card — mind you they took it away again as soon as I had done the four weeks work . |
| 8 | The teachers gave me a rough time for a couple of years because my student and acting image did n't fit . |
| 9 | Yes , and my parents had booked the audition for the Central School and found me a bed-sit in Swiss Cottage and being completely naive it was assumed that this was where I would be going . |
| 10 | He offered me a cigarette . |
| 11 | He sent me a card , Paz said , just one line , Did Dada do dis or did e do dat ? |
| 12 | I had to put the project aside for a while , he wrote , as the rent had to be paid , not to speak of alimony , school fees and the rest , and , coming back to it after a considerable period , much longer , unfortunately , than I had anticipated , and I will not even try to apologize since you gave me a completely free hand — anyway , he wrote , trying to ignore the damp spots left on the page of his pad by his sweaty hands , anyway , coming back to it after all that time I realized that it would be quite impossible in practice to separate the valuable and the worthless , the public and the private , and that , in a sense , one would have to think in terms of either publishing the whole thing exactly as it stood , or not doing it at all . |
| 13 | ‘ Claude taught me a golden rule : only 45% of a restaurant 's success depends on cuisine . |
| 14 | Charles Howard had just delivered me a colossal snub . |
| 15 | On the last day of that term , my final-year class all came up to my office to give me a ‘ thank-you ’ present . |
| 16 | ‘ Call me a stupid bitch , you fucking cow — you 're the one who 's the thief . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Call me a fucking thief one more time and I 'll smash your fucking face in ! ’ |
| 18 | She gave me a slap and I gave her one back . |
| 19 | She started calling me a thief and it all went on from there . ’ |
| 20 | She gave me a half-smile . |
| 21 | Somewhat naïvely , I had expected it all to be sorted out then and there , but the chap just took my name , gave me a form to fill in and told me to come back a few days later for a full interview . |
| 22 | My father did in fact sneak up to see me a few days later . |
| 23 | Sarah sent me a Christmas card that year . |
| 24 | I 'd go for it if I were you , ’ he said , and he gave me a little peck on the cheek . |
| 25 | That would n't be time enough to think but at least it would give me a chance to calm down . |
| 26 | ‘ Why do n't you give me a hand with the rest of the work ? |
| 27 | Find me a home and I 'll be fine . |
| 28 | ‘ Yes , this is the real world , ’ I said out loud — too loud actually ; someone gave me a funny look . |
| 29 | You go to all the trouble of finding me a bed in a night shelter and you then get me so drunk they 'll refuse point-blank to let me in ! ’ |
| 30 | Give me a ring when everything 's sorted out . ’ |