Example sentences of "[verb] it [verb] me [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I , i it used to be something I put up with when I was younger , now , if my parents come to visit I ask them to smoke in the corridor , go out of the door , open a window , something , because I found it affects me so badly ! |
| 2 | I want two things from an aeroplane : I want it to fly me up to the enemy , and then lie still while I shoot the enemy down . ’ |
| 3 | — Brenda Binge of Burnley calling for a ban on acid house parties ‘ I went to Oxford University , but I 've never let it hold me back . ’ |
| 4 | Who said in 1988 ‘ I went to Oxford , but I 've never let it hold me back . |
| 5 | I did n't expect it to hit me quite so hard , but when I think about it it 's because I 'm so bloody sad that the last fourteen years were spent in dying not in living . |
| 6 | The blood leakage will dissipate eventually and the blurring will go away , but then there 'll be another leak , and another , and every time it happens it brings me closer to going blind one day . ’ |
| 7 | so I thought he , he 's changing things he 's saying well I do n't think this is suitable and I do n't think my way of tackling this is suitable because he 's used to dealing with different kids , although they 're a similar age , they 're not very motivated or mighty but they 're more motivated than these kids , but he says like he 'll turned back towards the black board and he 'll be writing and they 're shouting abuse at him , F ing and blinding and he says it makes me so angry because I do n't know the voices well enough to know who 's saying it |
| 8 | I could feel it pulling me in , but I wanted to remain a bachelor . |
| 9 | It took her from 25 February to 30 June to save a shilling , but once she had accomplished that she was content that she could manage and ‘ never let it trouble me again ’ . |
| 10 | So when I pe when I sit , when I think oh right I 'll have a piss up session this Saturday and I see one of my friends getting absolutely slaughtered it puts me off straight away because I think oh stupid , what , what a waste . |
| 11 | I personally failed biology — but with all my kids , I can hardly claim it held me back … ! |
| 12 | ‘ That 's my girl , get tipsy and aggressive , you know it turns me on . ’ |
| 13 | Well erm last it annoys me though because cos she said erm Ricoh , when Ricoh worked in there they give her twenty five pound and looked after her horse as well , so |
| 14 | Coming upon me as it did , however , in the midst of such a busy period , I could not afford to let it preoccupy me unduly , and I thus decided I should resolve it at the earliest opportunity . |
| 15 | I try not to let it put me off too much . |
| 16 | ‘ I ca n't help saying it strikes me as rather odd that you 've left it till now to start looking for her . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I 'm sure he 's just doing it to wind me up . ’ |
| 18 | He was a Scotsman depending San Francisco and er situation that what you described but we were handing out food at Christmas Eve to people and people were coming up and er for their own proud they were saying things like I 'm a vegetarian or I do n't eat cheese pasties that was the case that was the only thing you had left but I mean it makes me really angry that we did not have this situation ten or twelve years ago . |
| 19 | You will gather I mean it caught me unawares , and in fact it disturbed me that having a bit of a wobbly on something as simple as this did not bode well for the Devil 's Ridge , which The Munros book described as a section where ‘ some may welcome the security of a rope ’ . |
| 20 | And that PS , ‘ She is spotlessly clean ’ — why did it startle me so ? |
| 21 | Or did it pick me up ! |
| 22 | I think it makes me rather useful . |
| 23 | I 'm black and I 've got to be better than the next applicant , but I do n't let it hold me back . |
| 24 | ‘ In the year before my vision went , I did n't let it get me down , ’ Andrew said . |
| 25 | I will remember that error for a long time , but I wo n't let it get me down . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I do n't let it get me down . |
| 27 | ‘ How can you say it suits me more than it does Dana ? |
| 28 | It 's important to me that you hear my side of the story — though God knows it does me little enough credit ! |