Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] me [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | In its clarity and purity of form , the mosque reminded me of the best early Cistercian architecture — that brief and precious half-century before the original ascetic urge began to give way to the worldly frivolity of the Later Middle Ages , the period that produced the great Chapter House at Fountains and the original dark-stone nave at Rievaulx . |
| 32 | Recording this news reminded me of the valuable role played by Area Presidents in guiding their Area and representing the Areas at a variety of events and functions . |
| 33 | Lindsay Kemp : ‘ David Bowie struck me from the very beginning as being very versatile and very ‘ up-front ’ and not in the least bit naîve . |
| 34 | When I had the baby , Stephen , the screws left me in the outside hospital but they took my clothes . |
| 35 | The gate porter brought me to the main entrance , and I was shown into a small pleasant office in the front of the administrative block . |
| 36 | The second day continued where the first day left off : four catches by Hick to equal the record for a Test against Pakistan originally set by the little-remembered spinner Jim McConnon of Glamorgan in 1954 , and then my researches led me to the remarkable fact that John Birch , who played for Notts from 1973 to 1988 , was known as ‘ Bonk ’ . |
| 37 | Some 36 years later I was invited to become Patron of Vliegclub Grimbergen , which honour I took very seriously and when my Belgian friends told me of the threatened closure of this , one of the busiest of Belgium 's general aviation airfields , I could see no obvious reason for closure , other than what only seemed to me to be political bias . |
| 38 | So I left , and as I walked back to my car , the man watched me from the little steel balcony upon which Kanaan Abu Khadra had played as a boy . |
| 39 | My next tour took me through the outside gardens , of which there were quite a number , all of a very high standard . |
| 40 | Crilly took me to the old town once ; it was a sooty place just north of the city , bordered by cakey cliffs and a greasy sliver of sea and a forlorn lighthouse jutting into the grey Irish sky , flashing blurry and red through the low clouds , omitting a lackadaisical moo only from time to time . |
| 41 | So we went to the locker-room of Portmarnock and Peter introduced me to the great Arnold Palmer . |
| 42 | The weather was fine this morning and after a full English breakfast , Kenneth accompanied me on the leisurely stroll to the theatre . |
| 43 | However — although these contortions saved me from the worse excesses of daily racism , my face kept giving me away . |
| 44 | I had a mental picture of the conductor on the red London bus talking to Hammouda the village postman , of the English boy 's friends playing with Khadija 's grandson , especially Margaret , whose hair reminded me of the coloured feather duster Khadija 's grandson had pleaded for everytime he saw it in the market , thinking that it was a toy or a bird . |
| 45 | A group of pupils studying science asked me about the new member of staff . |
| 46 | Two cherry berets took me through the first gate . |
| 47 | The day after I finished working for the managing director of a certain company fighting off a take-over bid , the agency sent me to the rival company . ’ |
| 48 | For some time three of the barefoot children accompanied me along the seldom-used path . |
| 49 | Elizabeth helped me with the flapping chair . |
| 50 | Bessie kissed me for the last time as I held tightly to her . |
| 51 | I did n't lack support ; the Spanish public knew me from the European Indoor . |
| 52 | The romance of the French Foreign Legion struck me in the same way , and especially the exhibits from Kolwezi and Chad , where there were photographs of camouflaged paras with shaved heads and sunglasses helping starving babies . |
| 53 | As I panted in the thin air , a herdboy passed me on the broken steps which zigzagged up the mountainside , joining the smooth terraces with their retaining walls of stone . |
| 54 | Michael told me about the interesting feature in one of the corners . |
| 55 | My mother told me about the famous people who lived in them . |
| 56 | I laughed when my mother told me of the entire postnatal fortnight spent in the maternity hospital , with bedpans and blanket baths and fierce ward sisters who wagged fingers at you if you as much as stuck a big toe over the side of the bed . |
| 57 | Max joined me for the last nine of my eighteen-months ' stint in Sun City . |
| 58 | My mother grabbed me at the very edge of the roof , just before I toppled the two storeys to the street . |
| 59 | A splendid , concise article in your Apr 26 Business section alerted me to the underhand profiteering of at least one of the high street banks at its farmer customers ' expense before the scandal broke in the national press and before the Chancellor of the Exchequer carpeted the bank bosses . |
| 60 | His speech struck me as the feeblest of the day . |