Example sentences of "me [modal v] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What pleases me may not please you , and my recommendation may disappoint you — and then what would you think ? |
| 2 | ‘ I know what you 'd like to do — and it may surprise you , Kit , if I admit that part of me may even want to myself . |
| 3 | There was a long silence before Ipuky continued , ‘ What is said about me should not concern you . |
| 4 | I was more of an outsider than ever , but something in me must still have wanted to belong to the family because I was still making deliberate attempts to communicate with the other members . |
| 5 | But the little tousle-headed , dirty , tanned , bold toddler that was me might well have been up to some sort of mischief involving the beast . |
| 6 | Par of me could n't give a monkeys about the entire operation . |
| 7 | I kept telling myself that it was n't likely , that the man who shot at me could n't have known anything about my boat or he would n't have asked about my car , that I 'd met no one else on the entire expedition , and that if ever a place could be described as lonely and unvisited , it was Winter Marsh in mid-October . |
| 8 | But surely what — what just happened to me could n't have done much for you , could it ? ’ |
| 9 | And then maybe Marie and me could even get married and I could sleep in her bed , and we could be all married and that . |
| 10 | Somehow the protestant part of me could not find it right to speak of her place in God 's order of salvation because I was afraid of her obscuring the central place of Jesus Christ in his Church . |
| 11 | The man sitting before me could not have forgotten that ; he just chose to ignore it . |
| 12 | And the Gharrgoyle trailing me need n't heave meant anything special . |
| 13 | You 're like every other man I 've ever met , you assume a woman who looks like me ca n't feel complete without a man , but , as a much wiser woman than I once said , a woman needs a man about as much as a fish needs a bicycle . ’ |
| 14 | Nor me ca n't stand it . |
| 15 | ‘ It too nasty — me ca n't drink that stuff , ’ Hyacinth implored , close to tears , but her mother resolutely grabbed her head , held her nose with one hand and poured the potion down her throat with the other . |
| 16 | Any edge that gave me would not last for long , and if I was going to protect my client , if she was my client , I 'd better get on with it . |
| 17 | ‘ A poor cripple like me would n't stand a chance against a big lump like you — especially when you got the boss 's daughter on your side … |
| 18 | CATHERINE And threatening me would n't have helped . |
| 19 | And strict interpretation of the ten miles and Mr reminded me would just pinch in a little bit erm of the of the West Yorkshire greenbelt . |
| 20 | Whether that was erm a child , whether it was a woman , anybody who tries to take my firearm from me would really have serious problems . |
| 21 | All that and more went through my mind , wrote Harsnet , as I sat there in the moonlight in the silence , but it was as if it was the glass which was telling me this , that the glass was my mind as I thought that , or my mind the glass , and that was the reason for the fear and the cold and also for the sense of growing excitement and a fear then , a different kind of fear , that I would not be able to do anything with this excitement , that it would be my failure , my failure to realize what I now saw were the real possibilities of the glass , a failure for which I would never be able to forgive myself , though a part of me would always know or perhaps only believe that it was in the nature of my insight that there could be no realization of it , that it was precisely an insight about non-realization , but by then , wrote Harsnet , it had all become too complicated , too extreme , I did not want to know any of it until it was all over , until I had made my effort , perhaps it had been a mistake to come in and sit there with the glass through the night with the moon shining so brightly , it must have been full , or nearly full , unnaturally bright anyway , something to do with the solstice perhaps , to sit in the room with the glass alone or with the moon alone might have been bearable , in the dark with the glass or in the moonlight in an empty room , but the two together , the glass and the moon , that was perhaps the mistake . |
| 22 | Jesus said , I am the resurrection , and I am the life ; he who believes in me , though he die , yet shall he live , and who ever lives and believes in me shall never die . |
| 23 | ‘ Hugo , ’ said Cousin Vic , ‘ you have my word as an officer and a gentleman , that what ever you tell me will not go beyond the walls of this room . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Whoever lives and believes in me will never die ’ John 11:26 ) |
| 25 | What yu offer me wo n't do |
| 26 | ‘ Tsk , tsk , ’ he taunted as he stood up , ‘ and losing your temper with me wo n't solve your problems . |
| 27 | An me can not feel me botty |
| 28 | But parents like me can not afford to ignore them , even to permit Dr Oliver to find a totally ideologically sound approach to alleviating disability . |
| 29 | A person like me can easily get lost there — and I did ! |
| 30 | And chaps like me can then go down to the villa , for those two weeks , every year for the next twenty-five years , without paying a penny ! |