Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Mum told me about the various forms of contraception but apart from that we did n't really talk about it . |
| 8 | The boy found me at the sweet shop across the street , and told me of the drama . |
| 9 | But my heart was not in insurance , and when Fred Workman recalled me to the editorial offices I rushed back to my old love . |
| 10 | The Queen received me with the greatest kindness and consideration . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The young lady took me through the untidy garden to the house . |
| 13 | So the sent me to the er eye infirmary and of course the eye infirmary sent me to the blind school . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I felt strange , almost disembodied , but my feet carried me to the green door and I pushed it open . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | SEEING THE ARTICLE on the ‘ 109 in the July issue of FlyPast reminded me of the first time I saw it . |
| 18 | The proprietor led me into the windowless gloom . |
| 19 | My hon. Friend asked me about the medical ethics of the issue . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Two dates faced me in the late summer , early autumn of that year . |
| 22 | I ca n't sleep at night for that baby crying , I ca n't breathe in the daytime for that stench of tallow coming out of their back door — and one of his customers brushed me into the dusty street the other day … |
| 23 | As we drank our wine , Pumblechook reminded me of the happy times he and I had spent together during my childhood . |
| 24 | The striking of the half hour alerted me to the incoming tide of darkness . |
| 25 | Ellen had gone to her one-room apartment in town while Thessy was reading his Bible in the main-cabin , so I heated myself some baked beans in Wavebreaker 's microwave , spread them on buttered toast , soaked them in brown sauce , then ate a morose supper on deck until the bugs drove me to the screened sanctuary of the staterooms below . |
| 26 | My acupuncturist told me about the broad-leafed veg , and I did n't think to ask him what he was on about . |
| 27 | Uncle Joe subjected me to the same torture and humiliation every time we were alone together — although , thankfully , he never actually went as far as raping me . |
| 28 | ‘ But John Reed knocked me down and my aunt locked me in the red room , ’ I cried . |
| 29 | ‘ Craig hurt me in the first round , but Robert told me to work harder and it all went well . ’ |
| 30 | My father took me to the Soviet Union when I was very small . |