Example sentences of "[n mass] [verb] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | The workshop session on the importance of the measurement and analysis of data made me understand the purpose of the charts and graphs displayed on office walls at Runcorn Heath . |
| 2 | The fact that Governors need only pay £20 flabbergasted me … anyone desiring the privilege of that title should certainly be asked to contribute £50pa . |
| 3 | Mr Vinct brought in some of the ‘ Daily Service ’ folk to see me and to tell me about their work . |
| 4 | ‘ Mach helped me , ’ he said , watching her closely now , his hand resting loosely on the gun in his pocket . |
| 5 | And if folk ask me why , I shall just say , ‘ Oh , that 's my wife — she 's a lunar-tick ! ’ ’ |
| 6 | Fish told me ; ‘ The studios were completed last July and the recording of ‘ Internal Exile ’ , my second solo album , began in the same month . |
| 7 | The blood spot on the nose of the last fish leads me to wonder whether the fish were initially suffering from some infectious agent , such as a bacterial pathogen . |
| 8 | A shoal of several hundred golden-grey fish followed me . |
| 9 | ‘ No-one in the Marine Corps taught me how to run a covert operation ’ said North , ruefully , at his trial . |
| 10 | The annual camp for secondary schools Cadet Corps gave me my first holiday away from home , but I was so homesick that a fortnight seemed an impossibly long time before I could get back to my parents and family . |
| 11 | He does n't understand at all , children say things to him at school he 's very mixed up i 'm going to have to seek a lot of help for all the children.He asked me : ’ Am I going to get the bike back for Mark and Thomas to ride on the child 's seat ? ’ |
| 12 | The swine owes me for two weeks . |
| 13 | Why should I let society off the hook by accepting rubbish when it 's more than within their means to treat me with dignity ? ’ |
| 14 | She said : ‘ If enough interest is shown through people contacting me on Barlaston extension 2486 , then I will arrange for a specialist consultant to give a talk . ’ |
| 15 | yeah , no problem , and he says when you 're driving along he says people flashing me , he says you see a head a pair of headlights flashing you think , it 's not , it 's another Reliant Regal some other bloke with a cap on you know |
| 16 | The King of this country ( which was called Lilliput ) had ordered his people to carry me to the capital city , about a kilometre away . |
| 17 | People envied me my birth and my childhood , but my secret pride was that I had rejected both to make of myself a prosaic and common-sense fellow . |
| 18 | Also will he confirm that in August 1991 he said : ’ I think the people trust me . |
| 19 | I do n't want people to see me and talk about me . |
| 20 | And then Boy cut back to the man on the bed , who was saying ( actually it was a different man in a different room , Boy realised ; the sofa and the quilted nylon counterpane were in a different colour in this room , though the man sitting there looked just like the last one ) , the man was saying I like your shoes , please take off your shoes ; and Boy cut backwards and forwards between this man and the politician beginning to lose his self-control and saying I would just ask people to forgive me really and to forgive my wife as well . |
| 21 | Grief , I hate people seeing me like this , she thought . |
| 22 | I said , ‘ You small-minded people make me fucking sick . |
| 23 | He said , ‘ You people make me sick . ’ |
| 24 | I 've got several people helping me all over the area , and I watch three or four games on a Sunday myself . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ People made me feel so welcome that I will undoubtedly go back and live in the North-East . |
| 26 | ‘ People asked me and Derrick what we were doing over the past two years and the answer that I want to give is that we were waiting for everybody to catch up . |
| 27 | I made no protest at the time , though people asked me to , because I said ‘ there 's nothing worse than arguing against a foolish argument . |
| 28 | ‘ A lot of people asked me if the staff would lose their jobs . |
| 29 | She says , ‘ How am I going to get round all these people phoning me up saying , ‘ Why am I not getting calls , it 's all your fault ’ , you know , all the rest of it ’ , when they have n't diverted their telephone to the right extension number . |
| 30 | On the other hand , I want people to like me . |