Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean , some may affect me one way , the next person they ask , affected another way , so they get two different opinions , do n't they . |
| 2 | He may regard me as an amateur but the fact is that , due to physical difficulties , I can not pull and twist in a horizontal mode and so I invoked gravity to assist . |
| 3 | Humans ought to thank me . |
| 4 | But you may think me merely biased if I say that my own father could in many ways be considered to rank with such men , and that his career is the one I have always scrutinized for a definition of ‘ dignity ’ . |
| 5 | And Herbert , you may think me lucky . |
| 6 | O God give me the strength to be victorious over myself , for nothing may chain me to this life . |
| 7 | He may throw me among strangers . |
| 8 | I may want me to go and do it now ? |
| 9 | That you may grant me grace . |
| 10 | He may make me feel desolate , make my spirits sink , hide my future from me … still … |
| 11 | It may make me sound as if I 'm in training for a Blue Peter badge , but it works . |
| 12 | That learned attitude in its turn may make me uncomfortably edgy and aggressive when situations . |
| 13 | This view of scientific theories may make me an instrumentalist or a positivist — as I have said above , I have been called both . |
| 14 | Let me go , and if I run my head into a hornet 's nest you may disown me . ’ |
| 15 | Though , as I say , this is very much a matter of personal taste and is not a ‘ rule ’ and there are some patterns in the electronic packs which may tempt me to change my preferences . |
| 16 | Yet our eyes lingered , and hers conveyed both an indication and a warning : Subtlety may win me , but force never will . |
| 17 | You may trust me , Mortals . ’ |
| 18 | You may trust me . ’ |
| 19 | He sent for Marko and told him , " You must plant me a vineyard and bring me wine from it in seven days . |
| 20 | ‘ If you think I 'll fall for that , you must think me very stupid indeed . |
| 21 | ‘ You must think me terribly rude , ’ said Blunset . |
| 22 | How greedy everyone must think me . |
| 23 | ‘ I know you must think me awful . |
| 24 | You must think me a terrible whiner . " |
| 25 | You must think me very gauche . " |
| 26 | ‘ What an idiot you must think me . |
| 27 | You must think me very silly but it 's just that I 'm so excited ! |
| 28 | ‘ I do n't know why you should want me , I 'm no good , but you do . ’ |
| 29 | She was almost grown up and there was no reason why she should want me . |
| 30 | I can not believe my luck that nobody else had the sense to carry you off but that you should still be there for me and that — ’ Well , that could be taken two ways , on second thoughts that might not be the thing to say , no ; ‘ my luck that you should want me in the same way that I want you . |