Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] me [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How many birds did my true love send to me on the twelfth day of Christmas ? |
| 2 | It occurred to me for the first time that he might not know whether or not I 'd lost the baby . |
| 3 | He looks at me for the first time . |
| 4 | Little did I imagine that such a move was destined for me within the next two years . |
| 5 | ‘ It came from me in the first place , did n't it ? |
| 6 | I 've just had two presented to me in the last eight months . |
| 7 | ‘ At least 130 people have either rang or written to me in the last few weeks . |
| 8 | Suddenly , looking at me for the first time , ‘ Tell me , ’ she said , ‘ oh , tell me — what are you in ? ’ |
| 9 | The hill that was waiting for me across the next two miles of nothingness was typical of those I had climbed that day — no more than a hundred feet high , with a gradual slope . |
| 10 | I think you 'd better work with me for the next few days , or if I 'm not here , then with one of my staff nurses . |
| 11 | I have no memory of anything that happened to me in the last ten years . ’ |
| 12 | Nigel turned his head to look at me for the first time and smiled in a kindly manner . |
| 13 | Offering the blond English boy — the one I was throwing water at now — half my lunch , and sitting there full of gratitude because he smiled , because he liked the taste of the piece of chicken dipped in cumin and saffron and he had smiled at me for the first time . |
| 14 | But what I 'd like you to do is to go with me during the next couple of hours , have an open mind and erm if I say something which is in an in any way provocative , question me if you want to , cos that 's what we 're here for , to communicate . |
| 15 | Frigidity has only been better exemplified to me by the first psychotic woman I ever saw , who complained that her vagina contained a block of ice . |
| 16 | And at the end of the class , near the bust of Unamuno , I heard your voice calling to me for the first time . |
| 17 | If I cry , the Monster cries — more piteously , longer , louder — not because it is sad , of course not , never out of sorrow or pity , no , merely because Jimbo has cried and thereby been noticed , for his self These scraps of attention the Monster would take from me to the last smile , the last nod , the last little pat on the head . |
| 18 | In October 1869 he wrote to Rohde : a whole lot of aesthetic problems and answers have been bubbling inside me for the last few years … of course , Wagner is in a very pregnant sense beneficial , especially as , an example incomprehensible on the basis of traditional aesthetics … ; and a few months later he was proclaiming to another correspondent a " marvellously new and changed … |
| 19 | Teachers would come up smiling — not having spoken to me since the first year and now I was a sixth former . |
| 20 | If they do n't respond to me in the next forty eight hours I 'm going to send them a second letter er tel . |
| 21 | If things go against me on the ninth , then I go somewhere serious . " |
| 22 | And because you 'll be reading to me in the next few months when I 'm cooking and doing chores . |
| 23 | The fly , which has settled on my forehead and reads to me from the Sixth Book of the Aeneid , is the same fly which buzzes round the head of Virgil in Mantua . |
| 24 | He looked at me for the first time when I said this . |
| 25 | He nodded and he looked at me for the first time . |
| 26 | Fortunately I do n't have to do the really dangerous stuff , buteven backstage in the wings I did have a few things falling about me on the last day in Manchester . |
| 27 | ‘ She did come to me in the first place . ’ |
| 28 | I may now have an inkling of what has happened to me over the last few years ; I may have lined up a few suspects , even tentatively put my finger on ‘ who done it ’ ; I may have my own private detectives working alongside the regular police , and we may have made an arrest or two , but the file has not been closed . |
| 29 | ‘ For instance , when you asked the official you met to find you some film-makers to talk to , he rung me up and spoke to me for the first time for years . |
| 30 | And somebody said to me at the last children 's mass , thank you , you 're the only one that tells us we 're not needed . |