Example sentences of "one [noun] [conj] [verb] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's getting back in one piece that worries me . |
| 2 | Just as we were about to leave , Frank Dick called me to one side and gave me a blistering reprimand . |
| 3 | She cocked her head on one side and gave me a long scrutiny , almost as though she had never seen me before . |
| 4 | The taxi driver leaned through his window at one point and passed me a small scrap of paper . |
| 5 | There 's a power cut ; the lights go out and we light candles and gas lamps and end up — a hard core of seven of us ; Andy , me , Howie , another two local lads and a couple of the traveller boys — down in the snooker room where there 's a beat-up looking table and a leak in the ceiling that turns the whole of the stained , green-baize surface into a millimetre-shallow marsh , water dripping from each pocket and dribbling down the bulky legs to the sopping carpet , and we play snooker by the light of the hissing gas lamps , having to hit the white ball really hard even for delicate shots because of the extra rolling resistance the water causes , and the balls make a zizzing , ripping noise as they race across the table and sometimes you can see spray curving up behind them and I 'm feeling really drunk and a bit stoned from a couple of strong Js smoked out in the garden earlier with the travellers but I think this dimly lit water-hazard snooker is just hilarious and I 'm laughing maniacally at it all and I put an arm round Andy 's neck at one point and say , You know I love you , old buddy , and is n't friendship and love what 's it 's really all about ? and why ca n't people just see that and just be nice to each other ? except there are just so many complete bastards in the world , but Andy just shakes his head and I try to kiss him and he gently fends me off and steadies me against one wall and props me up with a snooker cue against my chest and I think this is really funny for some reason and laugh so much I fall over and have distinct problems getting up again and get carried to my room by Andy and one of the travellers and dumped on the bed and fall instantly asleep . |
| 6 | ‘ Even my mum called me up one day and congratulated me ! |
| 7 | She came to me one day and asked me if I would stand for the council , which I did . |
| 8 | The American captain of a supply ship was chatting to me one day and asked me where we were based . |
| 9 | You ca n't just come along one day and tell me who I 'll marry ! |
| 10 | But one incident that amused me was that I was booked for a coffee commercial and the producer phoned me up the night before the session to let me know the track we were doing , because he said he wanted to get it as close to the original as he possibly could . |
| 11 | The Trunchbull simply grabbed me by one ear and rushed me to The Chokey at the double and threw me inside and locked the door . |
| 12 | He said ‘ The one thing that keeps me going is knowing that for every step I take and every pound donated we are one step nearer to finding a cure . ’ |
| 13 | If there 's one thing that disgusts me it 's cold porridge . |
| 14 | There was only one thing that worried me . |
| 15 | One thing that struck me was the great need to bear children . |
| 16 | One thing that struck me about this contraceptive suggestion was that it was being made by people who totally disapproved of all experimentation on animals . |
| 17 | ‘ As for Guns N ’ Roses , I bought ‘ Appetite For Destruction ’ three years ago and the one thing that struck me was just how exciting the guitars were . |
| 18 | There 's one thing that struck me right . |
| 19 | ‘ There was one thing that struck me as a bit odd when I had a chance to look back on it . |
| 20 | There 's only one thing that struck me when I was reading through it but a as I say , we we got to look at this from point of view are we going to date this as it lies at the present moment and add to it pieces that we want , or do we start off by having the pieces o i its its now whe w w |
| 21 | ‘ There 's only one thing that puzzles me about all this . ’ |
| 22 | The one thing that drew me to Elsie was her disability . |
| 23 | It 's the one thing that puts me off breeding — I love children , but I ca n't stand babies . ’ |
| 24 | One thing that infuriates me , though , is juice cups . |
| 25 | There 's hundreds of variations you can come up with , but one thing that influenced me was learning piano in school . |
| 26 | You see , one thing that influenced me was reading about the great American champs and I saw how all the good champs were side-tracked , avoided , yet always seemed to make it late . |
| 27 | One thing that intrigued me in the course of my meeting with Kagan was his careful enquiries about what duties were involved in membership of the House of Lords . |
| 28 | But there is just one thing that worries me : tucked away in the bottom left-hand corner on the back cover of the jewel case is the innocent phrase ‘ Works revised by Roberto Duarte ’ ; it is explained nowhere else . |
| 29 | ‘ The one thing that worries me is that I do n't think he cares . |
| 30 | One thing that puzzled me as a boy was Mrs. Farrer 's hair — it used to change overnight from snow white to jet black and a few days later it was white again . |