Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [vb -s] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's not your isolation that concerns me , ’ he informed her drily . |
| 2 | She came to St Bartholomew 's Hospital to be operated on , but it 's her mind that interests me . |
| 3 | The fear that overtakes me seems to increase as we get closer to the big day . |
| 4 | It may be only outsider skepticism that leads me to see a subtle , probably subconscious new emphasis on the word ‘ choice ’ . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's getting back in one piece that worries me . |
| 6 | It 's not the cost ( £200+ ) of a boat that worries me , it 's more the mechanisation of a basic fishing skill like working a bait on the wind that niggles . |
| 7 | One of the porters nips out every day at five thirty to the off-licence and gets me a cold one . ’ |
| 8 | Barbara takes off her shirt and wraps a blue chiffon nightie around her waist ; while Elena is in the loo , she opens her purse and shows me a picture of her six-year-old daughter . |
| 9 | She sits on my lap , looks at the photograph and tells me her dream . |
| 10 | Tell the children we have a poor refugee dog which suffers from a terrible fear and displeases me because he is dirty and snores at night . |
| 11 | This , of course , relieves a lot of unnecessary muscle tension and teaches me a way of restoring the completeness of the body in a relaxed and coordinated way that had been lost in my early childhood . |
| 12 | I am half-pissed and brilliant , Francis takes me for egg and chips and strong tea and tells me to give it up . |
| 13 | He 's honest to a fault and makes me feel I 'm greatly loved . |
| 14 | The sand functions as a ground plane or as a surrogate elevation and enables me to shift building elements so as to understand their sculptural capacity . |
| 15 | Aunt Lilian was aware — more than Aunt Kit was aware , anyway — of what might be thought a young girl 's natural pre-occupations , and it was she who took me to buy clothes and lipsticks , asking the sales girls ' advice with a gentle humility that touches me now , because she was not humble by nature and thought an interest in personal adornment the mark of a trivial mind . |
| 16 | In a more complex case I might sit in on a discussion within a committee but begin to consider that it is not moving in a direction that suits me . |
| 17 | It might not surprise you that it 's the highways budget that concerns me . |
| 18 | I 'm about to sign a new contract that makes me virtually a Santa Barbara resident , and we locals do n't mix with you tourists ! ’ |
| 19 | The dominant tone is of jubilation , not the hysteria that makes me swoon in Prince . |
| 20 | Because I find that er I can talk to people now , we chat away as I would in a pub , or in someone 's house but then this is the bit that worries me . |
| 21 | It 's their enthusiasm that inspires me . |
| 22 | This is the result of my experience and your money and a touch of genius that follows me whatever I do . |
| 23 | Because now I know there 's nothing behind the fancy shirt that interests me in the slightest . ’ |
| 24 | A presence that disturbs me with the joy |
| 25 | presence that disturbs me |
| 26 | It 's simply the tiredness that makes me so unresponsive on many occasions . ’ |
| 27 | It 's not the money that makes me happy . |
| 28 | Erm shit that reminds me I 've got to write a letter . |
| 29 | I have a folding mac that makes me look like a haystack in the rain , I have an umbrella that would fit most of Dublin under it . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ It is a question that takes me utterly by surprise as you obviously admire all this . |