Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [vb base] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The scripts make me sound very smart and I like that , ’ he said . |
| 2 | Clearly you do your best , the interviewers call me , praising you as an excellent chap . |
| 3 | The Saudis give me a stretch Mercedes and a clandestine litre of Johnny Walker Black , but no girl . |
| 4 | Surprisingly I was the oldest in the race at nineteen , so the statisticians tell me . |
| 5 | The pesticides get me the pesticides . |
| 6 | The lads tell me it 's a shooting estate — likely that 's where people leave their cars . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ I love it when the fans boo me , ’ Cooper says . |
| 9 | Half time came and the fans artound me were a bit pissed off because a ) Leeds were n't actually playing all that well and b ) Rocky was nowhere to be seen ( ironic when you consider it was his picture on the front of the program along with an interview where he said Wilko came to him & said ‘ you 're in the team , just go do it ’ — or something like that- ) . |
| 10 | But McGrath , who has had eight operations on his knees , revealed this could be his swansong , saying : ‘ I will decide at the end of the season , but I 'd rather quit at the top than drop down to a lower level , and the knees cause me a lot of pain . |
| 11 | His profound sense of fatalism becomes apparent as early as the last paragraph of his very first speech : ‘ … every few years there is still a case , and as the parties tell me what the trouble is , … the thought comes in that … another lawyer , quite differently dressed , heard the same complaint and sat there as powerless as I , and watched it run its bloody course . ’ |
| 12 | The words cut me like a sword . |
| 13 | She opened it , and found a very small cake with the words EAT ME on it . |
| 14 | Round the neck of the bottle was a piece of paper with the words DRINK ME in large letters . |
| 15 | ‘ I 've got a Rocktron Intellifex unit that I always take around with me , which is great quality but , more often than not , the engineers prefer me not to use anything other than , say , a bit of chorus . |
| 16 | ‘ Anyway , the shoes pinch me , see they mash up my toes , Nana . |
| 17 | I ask your pardon for leaving you waiting at the door , but I 'm pressed , Owen , the days crowd me , and there are things I must set forward while I may . |
| 18 | ‘ Please , sir , ’ says Management B , ‘ I have n't really raised my prices ; I have actually produced what is a new and better article , so much better than those of my competitors that , although my price is much above theirs , I have full order books and the retailers tell me they are accumulating waiting lists . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ When the mortars wake me at night , it takes a long time to go back to sleep . |
| 20 | The machines nauseate me whether I win or lose . |
| 21 | Yes the officers excuse me , the officers would be issued with a ballistic shield , this is a piece of equipment that is erm bullet proof to certain weapons and enables officers to er enter rooms er through doorways safely , even if shots are fired towards them from inside the room . |
| 22 | A face comes through the glass door , and all of the reflections make me see Evan . |
| 23 | which I shall not attempt to conceal from you , but before I come down to the details let me say that Darwinism occupies such a central position in evolutionary biology — in biology as a whole , not just in evolutionary biology but in the whole of biology — that any important , new idea in biology has to be , to some extent , judged by its compatibility with , or its contradictions of , the Darwinian position . |
| 24 | These ministries , many of the exorcists tell me , are being used increasingly each year . |
| 25 | ‘ All the teachers hate me ! |
| 26 | The teachers treat me as an adult , but I 've always been very mature for my age . |
| 27 | My partner 's Pipettes of Lemon Sole filled with succulent Prawns and coated with a light Indian Sauce came with the cutest garnish — little swans made from slices of lemon , while the helpings put me in mind of ‘ Nouvelle Cuisine meets Yorkshire portions ’ . |
| 28 | The friends accompany me to the jetty . |
| 29 | What counts right now is dealing with a very good looking England B. ’ Gerber said : ‘ I will go home , play for Western Province and see if the selectors want me . |
| 30 | The girls bore me off immediately for a welcoming glass of wine . |