Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] me [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was due to attend a meeting with several other women whom I knew and felt in sympathy with , and when I arrived there , the weight of my unhappiness just rolled off me like an unwanted burden . |
| 2 | I saw a group walking towards me through the ashen darkness . |
| 3 | Instead of being cosily tucked up in her bunk near the bar , she surprisingly came walking towards me from the sleeping car forward of Filmer 's , her diamonds lighting small bright fires with every step . |
| 4 | I would like and I feel humble for asking , for anyone to write to me about the above . |
| 5 | Well , since he did not appeal to me in the slightest , the whole business became a terrible bore . |
| 6 | After some thought he said ; ‘ Well , I have a daughter your age , and if she were to come to me with the same question I would advise her to terminate . ’ |
| 7 | How many birds did my true love send to me on the twelfth day of Christmas ? |
| 8 | What was happening to my body — not only the changes brought about by puberty , but the fact that the clothes it wore and the food it consumed were chosen for it by someone else — was a metaphor for what was happening to me as a whole person . |
| 9 | It occurred to me for the first time that he might not know whether or not I 'd lost the baby . |
| 10 | The coy attitude with which the Press still view this and other sexual matters is illustrated by the experience recounted to me by a well-known columnist . |
| 11 | He looks at me for the first time . |
| 12 | His dark eyes flickered at me like a long sooty flame , then he looked down again . |
| 13 | The women who were working there looked at me in a kind curious way at first and then took me for granted . |
| 14 | The sun crept towards me over the red tiles . |
| 15 | Little did I imagine that such a move was destined for me within the next two years . |
| 16 | They do n't pay me much , but I 'm looking about me for a good opportunity . |
| 17 | I turned back to find Yvonne 's grinning face looking past me in the same direction . |
| 18 | It was from KeriKeri I started the two-hour flight in a 152 that took me over Hokianga Harbour on the Tasman Sea , along Ninety-Mile Beach to the northernmost tip of New Zealand , and right above a school of dolphins swimming below me in the crystal-clear Pacific waters of Doubtless Bay . |
| 19 | Knowing this to be his likely mood when I brought in the tea yesterday afternoon , and being aware of his general propensity to talk with me in a bantering tone at such moments , it would certainly have been wiser not to have mentioned Miss Kenton at all . |
| 20 | By Tuesday she was flirting with me in a sweet , old-fashioned way , blue eyes as young as her memory . |
| 21 | I shall carry with me into the darkest corners of the world knowledge , peace , freedom , religion , the hope of heaven ! |
| 22 | After a word with his clerks , Henniker came with me into the other room . |
| 23 | ‘ It came from me in the first place , did n't it ? |
| 24 | So what happens to me in the great cultural revolution ? |
| 25 | I 've just had two presented to me in the last eight months . |
| 26 | Yeah , even on the phone our Rob rings up and er , he 'll speak to me for a few minutes and he speaks |
| 27 | SIR — Your agricultural correspondent 's report on the goats of Snowdonia and their origins ( April 2 ) is less exciting than the folklore related to me as a small boy by a Welsh shepherd . |
| 28 | She lived at New Houses , and was related to me in a mixed up kind of way — her father and my grandmother were cousins , but what that made me to Miss Bayles I can not imagine ! |
| 29 | Kinsmen , in this sense , are related to me in a special private way . |
| 30 | ‘ We 're not going to pay skilled workers $18 an hour to clean phone booth ’ , he says to me in an aggressive tone of voice . |