Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] me [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He only made me cry once , ’ she mumbled against his sweater . |
| 2 | Because I 'd done two prison sentences they obviously expected me to go back again . |
| 3 | ‘ I was extraordinarily lucky in starting off in a post that was small enough and compact enough to enable me to meet quite a sizeable proportion of the population . ’ |
| 4 | You dump it in there and then you suddenly expect me to know where it all is and I do n't . |
| 5 | The potential ramifications of such a theme could be vast so let me start somewhere in the middle . |
| 6 | Er so let me move on then to erm the growth areas . |
| 7 | So let me spell out a few more advantages you may not have realised before : |
| 8 | While Gould 's first impressions were not favourable , he was determined , as he wrote to Sir John Franklin , to keep an open mind : ‘ The heat and dust of Sydney is extremable neither does the presence of Drunkards which constantly present themselves in the streets add to the interest of this place , time and better acquaintance with the country will however perhaps enable me to speak better of it . ’ |
| 9 | And if you will be good enough to let me go on , you will see how I am monitoring the environment of the infant in order to see precisely what effect it has . |
| 10 | The balance I have put towards something for us both — a new continental quilt for our bed here — and I got a king sized one , as JOHN always seems to get it all , but this may be big enough to let me hang on to my side . |
| 11 | Even ten years ago the notion of the nurse as the patient 's advocate had not been formally recognised , and the stress involved in being unable to act properly in the patient 's defence was almost enough to persuade me to give up altogether . |
| 12 | After fifteen minutes on the Metro to Nevski Prospect I was met by a teeming downpour , heavy enough to keep me holed up under cover until ten minutes before the performance was due to start , and with the hall some hundreds of yards away along a back-street . |
| 13 | ‘ Then will you be good enough to permit me to do just that ? |
| 14 | He can only tell me to eff off . |
| 15 | I then returned to the little inn where I had ordered dinner to be ready at an hour early enough to allow me to walk back to Ballachulish in time for the calling of the steamboat on its Fort William route . |
| 16 | Mr. Beloff and Mr. Philipson understandably place strong reliance on E.M.I . Records Ltd. v. Spillane [ 1986 ] 1 W.L.R. 967 , and rightly invite me to pay very careful regard to it . |
| 17 | ‘ 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 . |
| 18 | I 'd better get me timesheet out of |
| 19 | If only to stop me dashing round to the newsagent every day to ask if it is in yet around the time due , I shall have to take out an MKM subscription and devote more of my energies to learning how . |
| 20 | You said then that I 'd never cope , but the farmers liked me enough to ask me to call again . ’ |
| 21 | It 's silly things like that which get in the way of the actual show , so for the next series , I suggested a couch , low enough for me to put my arm over the back of it , but high enough to stop me sliding off on to the floor . |
| 22 | He smiled too , and stabbed me in the gut with the gun-barrel hard enough to make me suck in my breath . |
| 23 | It was not a bad wound , but entirely enough to make me land badly and wrench my ankle . |
| 24 | It was important enough to make me come up here to ask Dr Bailey about Christabel LaMotte . ’ |
| 25 | Because he was wrong and he just made me feel really crap . |
| 26 | ‘ It just made me wonder even more why such a destructive hitter has such a modest one day record , with an average of about 27 , ’ said his skipper . |
| 27 | And it just made me realize how fragile life is and how God has got his hand on you and erm how he protected me from erm being killed in that plane crash because it could easily have been my plane |
| 28 | Eventually Mrs Webster explained that she had had an evacuee before me , who had ‘ breathed on the wall ’ , and she did not want me to do likewise . |
| 29 | When I first came my husband did not want me to go out to work . |
| 30 | I did n't really blame you for not wanting me to come near you , but it was n't a particularly pleasant experience to realise that I 'd put someone I 'd loved through such an appalling time . |