Example sentences of "people [verb] me " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . ’ |
2 | 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 |
3 | The King of this country ( which was called Lilliput ) had ordered his people to carry me to the capital city , about a kilometre away . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | Also will he confirm that in August 1991 he said : ’ I think the people trust me . |
6 | I do n't want people to see me and talk about me . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | Grief , I hate people seeing me like this , she thought . |
9 | I said , ‘ You small-minded people make me fucking sick . |
10 | He said , ‘ You people make me sick . ’ |
11 | I 've got several people helping me all over the area , and I watch three or four games on a Sunday myself . ’ |
12 | ‘ People made me feel so welcome that I will undoubtedly go back and live in the North-East . |
13 | ‘ 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 . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | ‘ A lot of people asked me if the staff would lose their jobs . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | On the other hand , I want people to like me . |
18 | Beforehand , her PR people urge me not to ask her about Eric Clapton ( with whom she has been seen dining on at least one occasion at San Lorenzo 's in London ) , but that she would be willing to talk about her alcoholism . |
19 | ‘ Everywhere I go people expect me to be the happy person they see on TV . |
20 | But of course I am aware that people want me to do lots of things because I am Kylie Minogue . ’ |
21 | People want me to be funny all the time . |
22 | There was a trace of exasperation in his voice as he said : ‘ I 've told my promoter Dan Duva that I want to fight all those contenders that the people want me to fight . |
23 | At one point he said , ‘ Why do these different people want me ? |
24 | ‘ When The Darling Buds Of May became a success a lot of people approached me to make a record , saying : ‘ Well , it does n't matter if you ca n't sing — let's just do SOMETHING . ’ |
25 | Sir Charles Baskerville and some other kind people helped me when I was poor and hungry . ’ |
26 | ‘ People bother me , ’ G.B.S. told his housekeeper near the end of his life . |
27 | PEOPLE send me the funniest letters . |
28 | So many people ply me with drinks in the D and F these days that I tend to remember them as I saw them , in a blur . |
29 | ‘ The idea of getting out of bed to paint these people kills me ’ , he says . |
30 | ‘ The idea of getting out of bed to paint these people kills me ’ |