Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] me in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , since he did not appeal to me in the slightest , the whole business became a terrible bore . |
| 2 | The women who were working there looked at me in a kind curious way at first and then took me for granted . |
| 3 | I turned back to find Yvonne 's grinning face looking past me in the same direction . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | By Tuesday she was flirting with me in a sweet , old-fashioned way , blue eyes as young as her memory . |
| 7 | ‘ It came from me in the first place , did n't it ? |
| 8 | So what happens to me in the great cultural revolution ? |
| 9 | I 've just had two presented to me in the last eight months . |
| 10 | 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 ! |
| 11 | Kinsmen , in this sense , are related to me in a special private way . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . |
| 13 | The above account was written to me in a long , beautifully typed letter . |
| 14 | THANK you to the great many readers who have written to me in the past couple of weeks about the Royals . |
| 15 | ‘ At least 130 people have either rang or written to me in the last few weeks . |
| 16 | George Kidner came to me in a great state of mind because he has been asked to appear before a committee consisting of C. Bathurst , Peto & C. Mills & sitting at Central Office . |
| 17 | MUCH OF THE INTERIOR OF MY FATE AND THAT OF JEAN-Claude 's was revealed to me in the opaque , vaporous interior of la Sologne . |
| 18 | So it was , I assume , that he felt immediately able to talk to me in a businesslike and trusting way , and by the end of our meeting , he had left me with the administration of a not inconsiderable sum to meet the costs of a wide range of preparations for his coming residency . |
| 19 | Some time before he had asked me if I knew this most neglected of novelists , coming up to talk to me in a blue-green Athenian bar from which he was almost at once to be evicted for a splendid falsetto rendering of ‘ The Lost Chord ’ . |
| 20 | He first tried to talk to me in an English pub . |
| 21 | He was looking at me in a desperate way . |
| 22 | ‘ Colds , catarrh and sinusitis , ’ he said , looking at me in a funny way . |
| 23 | He was looking at me in a puzzled way . |
| 24 | The violence of this transition became more cushioned for me in the mid-seventies , when we built our bamboo and coconut-wood home in the highlands of Bali , which for seven years now has served us as a sort of decompression chamber between the two worlds . |
| 25 | No one mentioned it was essential training as a motoring correspondent to have a car crash , but it happened to me in the same gruesome circumstances that confront hundreds of motorists every week . |
| 26 | I have no memory of anything that happened to me in the last ten years . ’ |
| 27 | Leaving aside the phrase that the hon. Gentleman attributed to me in the early part of his question , I can reassure him that the budget for the health service will be £3.7 billion , an increase of £342 million , or 10.1 per cent . |
| 28 | I should be alone , and the old custom that clerks resigned on marriage was told to me in no uncertain way . |
| 29 | Before I knew it , she was lying beside me in the small white tent . |
| 30 | For instance , when people find out that my father ran off with a schoolgirl they invariably look at me in a particular way , which means one of two things , if not both of them . |