Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] me [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In my teens , similar doubts lured me into the darker recesses of the family 's medical encyclopedia , there to discover I was Britain 's first recorded case of Futtock 's Syndrome . |
| 2 | Sure enough , a high-pitched peeping drew me to the stable , and there on the floor was the hen with one minute black puff-ball of a chick . |
| 3 | First of all Gyggle tried me on the same sort of rudimentary exercises that I remembered performing as a child . |
| 4 | No , what I am looking at are the first direct signals to reach me from the dark constellation of Serafin . |
| 5 | I had each Wednesday afternoon off from Russell 's and he enroled me , secretly , into his school for lessons with his normal classes , He and his wife held a weekly open house and these cramming sessions prepared me for the coming Halton entrance examination . |
| 6 | ‘ I do not actually need the evidence of two people in one bedroom and the sight of crumpled covers to point me in the right direction . |
| 7 | A boat returned me to the little coral landing-strip ; Friendly Islands Airways took me down to Tongatapu ; and within half a day I was settled in a small hotel in Auckland , waiting for the weekly Cathay Pacific jet home . |
| 8 | A minibus took me through the early morning light to Makindye , in the southern suburbs of the city , where the first Uganda National Women 's Festival of Music and Drama was in full swing in a large church hall . |
| 9 | The present generation of British and American literary Marxists remind me of the small boy in Joyce 's story , ‘ Araby ’ , who got to the bazaar just as it was closing . |
| 10 | I held Elizabeth close , and as I held her , I saw the monster watching me through the open window of the room . |
| 11 | Mum told me about the various forms of contraception but apart from that we did n't really talk about it . |
| 12 | The current advert for the Washburn Mercury guitar revolts me to the very depths of my soul . |
| 13 | The boy found me at the sweet shop across the street , and told me of the drama . |
| 14 | But my heart was not in insurance , and when Fred Workman recalled me to the editorial offices I rushed back to my old love . |
| 15 | The Queen received me with the greatest kindness and consideration . |
| 16 | The chairman of the committee telephoned me in the late spring of 1976 to say that they were organising a series of public meetings at Wapping when the committee 's plans for the area would be disclosed to the local population for the purpose of hearing their comments and enquiries . |
| 17 | The young lady took me through the untidy garden to the house . |
| 18 | So the sent me to the er eye infirmary and of course the eye infirmary sent me to the blind school . |
| 19 | Much to my surprise , Karen greeted me at the front door with a glass of champagne in her hand and , still more unusual , a smile on her face . |
| 20 | I felt strange , almost disembodied , but my feet carried me to the green door and I pushed it open . |
| 21 | Friday evening saw me at the National Gallery with her boyfriend and , quite literally , hundreds of other people , to the opening of the annual exhibition , sponsored this year by BP , of the Scottish Artists and Craftsmen . |
| 22 | The sound reminds me of the bass sound on all those expensively-produced American AOR albums — smooth , almost too clean , but live there 's an enormous amount of wallop available . ’ |
| 23 | SEEING THE ARTICLE on the ‘ 109 in the July issue of FlyPast reminded me of the first time I saw it . |
| 24 | Now these messages remind me of the old Tarzan movies , now you were all old enough now to remember the old Tarzan movies . |
| 25 | Centrally organised arrangements are sometimes not appropriate and that point brings me to the hon. Member for Kincardine and Deeside ( Mr. Stephen ) . |
| 26 | The proprietor led me into the windowless gloom . |
| 27 | But JUSt as it IS proper for me to look back to my wedding day as assurance that I am really married , so it is proper to look back to my baptism as a mark given me by the Holy Spirit that I am really born again in Christ , and to the eucharist as a pledge that I do partake of his life , feed on him , and shall in the last day share his resurrection . |
| 28 | My hon. Friend asked me about the medical ethics of the issue . |
| 29 | The women I spoke to who had been through the whole procedure told me of the many exhausting visits they had had to make to the British Embassies and High Commissions , of the atmosphere of contempt at these places , of the pettiness of the Entry Clearance Officers ( ECOs ) and interpreters , and the rude and unreasonable questions they had had to answer . |
| 30 | Two dates faced me in the late summer , early autumn of that year . |