Example sentences of "it [modal v] [verb] me [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may help me more indirectly by alerting me to the fact that I may be wrong , and forcing me to reason again to double check my conclusion . |
| 2 | How ironic that it should take me so long to know how I feel about a man and then in that same moment realise that he really is the bastard I first took him for ! |
| 3 | I do n't think any prison will make me better , but it might make me not come back . |
| 4 | It might put me off sailing for good ! ’ |
| 5 | I mean you can imagine somebody saying , well it 'll last me out , I 'm not bothered . |
| 6 | Something like that , eighth of a million , it 'll do me anyway . |
| 7 | Needs a bit of cleaning up , but it 'll do me all right . ’ |
| 8 | thing and that 's without a pump , so to set up it 'll cost me probably a thousand and a bit and I want and then I 'll need to have the rest of the money left over to survive |
| 9 | ‘ It 'll keep me out of the pub , dear , ’ said Jay . |
| 10 | ‘ Sure and it 'll keep me out of mischief for a while . |
| 11 | There are also plans to further develop the cereal processing at Girvan — something which Mr Sandy says will occupy him now that his nephew is in place as managing director : ‘ It 'll keep me out of mischief . ’ |
| 12 | but then again it 'll take me longer to find that one this morning |
| 13 | It 'll see me out . |
| 14 | I do n't like it and it 'll annoy me now we 're working together . ’ |
| 15 | It 'll get me away from them . |
| 16 | All the magic had died from it , and it was but a husk of itself ; for all my art , it could tell me only one thing — that no one could restore it to its place except a child not yet born , and born only for that task . |
| 17 | If only it could tell me how I am failing it . |
| 18 | So I had a bath and I thought it 'd warm me up but I was , I was freezing were n't I ? |
| 19 | It 'd help me more if you keep Anna cool . |
| 20 | It used to crack me up . |
| 21 | It used to crack me up . |
| 22 | Oh it used to crack me up . |
| 23 | And it used to fill me up and I 'd |
| 24 | It used to get me down so much . |
| 25 | ‘ It used to get me so angry and I really wanted to protect my mother and help her , but I was only six at the time and there was nothing I could do . |
| 26 | It used to make me really mad because some of me brothers and sisters used to get put in the same homes together , but I was always on my own . |
| 27 | ‘ It would make me very jealous and insecure . ’ |
| 28 | For example , it would make me very happy if I could see you every night across my dinner table ; if when I woke in the morning , I would hear you wish me ‘ Bonjour , chéri ! ’ in that so charming accent of yours . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'd share your gin , ’ the Bishop 's wife said , ‘ except that it would make me further inclined to cry . ’ |
| 30 | No need to stiffen up like that — you must see that it would affect me professionally . ’ |