Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [verb] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sadly , that was not even the last of the clubs to deny me membership . |
| 2 | As an 11-handicapper who does not play quite as often as she would like , I found the clubs gave me more consistency and greater ‘ feel ’ . |
| 3 | ‘ On a personal note , in 1991 when the Board nominated me and the shareholders elected me to the chairmanship , I indicated that I would serve in this capacity for two years and oversee the rationalisation and turnaround of the Waterford and Wedgwood businesses . |
| 4 | I do n't know how they 've done it but the typography on the signs makes me want to pronounce the word Edin-burg , and I live in the place , for God 's sake . |
| 5 | ‘ The scripts make me sound very smart and I like that , ’ he said . |
| 6 | Clearly you do your best , the interviewers call me , praising you as an excellent chap . |
| 7 | The hours suited me |
| 8 | I enjoyed conversation classes , I enjoyed doing more advanced work with what was known as the Philologic Sixth , a small group of eighteen-year-old duds who were doing languages only because they were hopeless at science , but the endless business of ‘ drilling ’ the beginners bored me into stone . |
| 9 | The Saudis give me a stretch Mercedes and a clandestine litre of Johnny Walker Black , but no girl . |
| 10 | Seeing Derek 's puzzled look , she added : ‘ You mentioned the Spanish Civil War and I 've been thinking about the message the kidnappers told me to use to contact them . ’ |
| 11 | Eventually I left them to it and went off into the night , the bells keeping me company through the streets . |
| 12 | The smell of bread and baigels freshly from the ovens made me hungry . |
| 13 | The authorities grabbed me and took me away . |
| 14 | The cops saw me where they thought I should n't be , so they got curious . |
| 15 | I was idling Armstrong outside the National Westminster tower , you know — the building which King Kong would have climbed if he 'd been British , when the cops pulled me in . |
| 16 | Surprisingly I was the oldest in the race at nineteen , so the statisticians tell me . |
| 17 | I told myself I was waiting out there for the signals to let me know David and Leon had gone to bed , lights switched off at their bedroom windows , at least some movement of the curtains . |
| 18 | Then the war came and after the war the concert-managers offered me a chance to do all the Mahler symphonies . |
| 19 | The pesticides get me the pesticides . |
| 20 | One of the survivors told me that her mother " never worked " , but it later emerged that she did go out to clean offices . |
| 21 | Two of the survivors assured me they were among the last girls to be admitted to the trade . |
| 22 | Shortly after Vitalis finished his course , a teacher in one of the schools told me that he wanted to get married in Church . |
| 23 | And she gave me an indulgent look and she said , ‘ I 'm really sorry , the pictures made me feel tender feelings for you , but they just really did not arouse me . ’ |
| 24 | Do the bedrooms suit me ? |
| 25 | One of the lads asked me at a dance how I had earned my living before I had got married . |
| 26 | The boys ' father Ben said : ‘ The lads took me straight to the baby and it was freezing . |
| 27 | If I had n't made that bet , and had n't then gone both ways , nine times out of ten Jude would have shown a beaten hand and raked in half the pot — while the lads trashed me for letting him off lightly . |
| 28 | The lads tell me it 's a shooting estate — likely that 's where people leave their cars . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I found the last 20 minutes extremely hard but the lads gave me every encouragement and I am delighted , ’ he said . |
| 30 | We 're all really close to each other , so if the lads give me a good track with some good bits that turn me on , I want to do well for them , I wan na get some lyrics out they 'd like . |