Example sentences of "friend [vb mod] [verb] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | I decided to walk as far as Bellanoch where a friend would pick me up for that weakening hospitality again - a dear old Sister Brush who shames me with her eighty-year-old energy , integrity and artistic confidence . |
| 2 | But we have the original cards here as my learned friend will correct me if I 'm I 'm wrong . |
| 3 | If my hon. Friend will forgive me , I shall not trail that in advance . |
| 4 | My hon. Friend will forgive me if I do not respond to one part of his question . |
| 5 | If my hon. Friend will forgive me , I must resume my speech . |
| 6 | I hope that my right hon. Friend will join me , the rest of the House and the country in issuing a warning , in the hope and expectation that those who describe themselves as loyalist paramilitaries will not , under any circumstances , physically react to this ghastly occurrence . |
| 7 | I could eat alone or the young son and his friends could join me , but I could not eat in the Sheikh 's great majlis with the other men of the household . |
| 8 | I remember many occasions when friends would reassure me that I was like them , there were n't any differences . |
| 9 | He and his friends would have me scoffed and hounded out of the county rather than see my house completed . |
| 10 | He argues that it is common for a depressed person to grossly exaggerate the negative implications of events ( sometimes called ‘ catastrophising ’ ) : ‘ I did n't get that job I 'm not bright enough — I 'll be unemployed or in low-level jobs for ever — I 'll be bored and boring-my friends will abandon me — my husband wo n't love me any more . ’ |
| 11 | I hope my classicist friends will forgive me if I abbreviate mimeme to meme . |