Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [prep] me [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I am grateful for the support given to me by the London Fire Brigade and I would also like to thank the Fire Brigades Union . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I am grateful for the support given to me by the London Fire Brigade , who have done all they can to help me over the years since the fire , and I would also like to thank the Fire Brigades Union for underwriting the risks of my legal claim . ’ |
| 3 | The tactics adopted by me against the large boy was to be used in all future fights with taller opponents , with the same success . |
| 4 | When Pat came to me in the autumn of 1989 she was suffering from osteoarthritis of the neck and spine with accompanying raised blood pressure . |
| 5 | You can appreciate by the remarks my agent made to me on the telephone ( words which I swear I have not amended or distorted in any way at all ) just how big and unpleasant a problem I have sitting like a gibbering troll on my innocent shoulders . |
| 6 | Now for a motor car I think you can say that the practical desirabilities of a car , and the acceleration and performance and looks are very important , one could also say that the fact that many people have their cars bought for me by the firm they work for means that they will therefore buy a larger car than they would if it was their own money that they were spending , so the market for cars is perhaps not one which is determined by energy efficiency or even optimum efficiency in terms of people 's and prestige is coming into it as much as these other factors and it is determined by who pays the money . |
| 7 | I was also on the receiving end of some pranks played on me by the cameramen . |
| 8 | All in all it was with a feeling of indescribable joy that on the sixth day I saw a familiar figure coming towards me among the prompt arrivals . |
| 9 | As one wag said to me at the time , ‘ Only R is different ’ . |
| 10 | Yeah but you say to her that they 're always on about how s Shrimpy ca n't do anything for himself , and it 's between Emma , it 's not between it was al even Scott said to me at the beginning oh it 's not between me , it 's nothing to do with me , it 's between Emma and Scott . |
| 11 | That weekend is also memorable for something Dana said to me in the train on the way back to Salamanca : ‘ I knew you were gay as soon as I saw you that morning in the galleria . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Andy Gould , ’ I say , because — apart from everything else — Andy stayed with me during the summer , round about the time the card with my writing on it went missing . |
| 13 | As I did so I became aware of a youngish man with long hair looking at me from the pavemented walk on the Hammersmith side of the river . |
| 14 | The sun crept towards me over the red tiles . |
| 15 | I could see I could see Li er Charlie and Pete looking at me from the other side of the room , Charlie smiled and I just did I just went like that , you know ? |
| 16 | Agassi 's coach came to me with the rackets . |
| 17 | I just could n't get the Queen to talk to me about the situation . |
| 18 | ‘ What saddened me about the reviews , ’ said Crawford , ‘ was n't so much that they had a go at the play , but they did n't recognise all the work done for me by the rest of the team . |
| 19 | But Sally was so good , Luckily I 'd remembered to pack the Farley 's Rusks and she had those mixed up with boiled water the guard got for me from the restaurant car . ’ |
| 20 | The cat rushed past me into the hallway . |
| 21 | The scene lay before me like the field of a medieval tourney : banners and bunting and ladies in jewel-bright colours . |
| 22 | A white-faced Mathilda sped by me in the gallery but Benjamin was shouting for me so I decided not to accost her . |
| 23 | ‘ It is not a seen gaze , but a gaze imagined by me in the field of the other ’ ( Lacan 1981 ) . |
| 24 | Suddenly I saw two huge rats run towards me across the bed . |
| 25 | Their response never ceases to amaze me , as does the accolade accorded to me by the fans . |
| 26 | Eva smiled at me from the driver 's seat . |
| 27 | He added : ‘ Scotland manager Andy Roxburgh said to me after the European Championship in Sweden , ‘ You 'll be surprised how you feel — it took me two years to feel they were my players . ’ |
| 28 | Her question remained with me throughout the rest of the journey . |
| 29 | For a moment I thought he had come across the bottle of wine given to me by the couple at Benouville bridge café . |
| 30 | I saw a group walking towards me through the ashen darkness . |