Example sentences of "[verb] me [prep] [art] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She led me into the pink-and-green chintzy sitting-room where Harry , pale with blue shadows below the eyes , sat in an armchair with his bandaged leg elevated on a large upholstered footstool . |
| 2 | But by far the best gift was given me by a little red-haired girl , Betty , who gave me ( a virgin boy ) her body . |
| 3 | Willie pulls himself up the stairs reminding me of an elderly praying mantis . |
| 4 | plagued me like a treacherous intimate |
| 5 | Nothing had prepared me for the overwhelming architectural beauty of Salamanca , and in particular for the grandeur of the university , the oldest in Spain and one of the oldest in Europe , with its noble façade in plateresque style . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | After two weeks with no sign of improvement , a friend told me of an excellent new rheumatologist who had just come to work in Chester . |
| 8 | True , I had the somewhat grisly T-shirt and track-suit bottoms which had gamely seen me through a two-hour run-through , but they were in a state and could probably have walked unaided to the BBC on their own . |
| 9 | It was bad enough finding the poor bugger ; to be suspected of carving him up put me in a right tizzy ! |
| 10 | Ca n't imagine you meeting me with a nice cooked dinner and a a cake made by yo your own fair |
| 11 | The unremitting four-mile ascent to the high pass over the ridge reduced me to a walking wet rag ; I was literally soaked to the skin and could feel rivulets chasing each other down my bosom . |
| 12 | A cheerful , freckled young woman showed me to a small seedy room and I began to unpack . |
| 13 | ‘ Tell me about the funny Dutch houses and Red Indians , ’ he would ask . |
| 14 | Thank you for providing me with an excellent short article for the summer edition of Rural Wales . |
| 15 | Despite this , my parents found the wherewithal to send me to a cheap fee-paying dayschool . |
| 16 | Those amiable but blatantly incompetent buffoons have brought me to the wrong fucking airport ! |
| 17 | I bet you never saw me as the faithful little wife . |
| 18 | You strike me as an intelligent young woman and I refuse to believe that you were silly enough to go to Mr Riddle with such proposals unless you were in a position to either bribe or threaten him . ’ |
| 19 | The Esprit is a twin humbucker guitar , a departure from the norm for Fender ; while they are justly famed for their single coil pickups , their humbuckers have always struck me as a little tame … |
| 20 | I did n't lack support ; the Spanish public knew me from the European Indoor . |
| 21 | Some years later I was at dinner with Brian Huggett and he got up and said , ‘ I should n't be talking to this man because he robbed me of the British Open . |
| 22 | You remind me of a beautiful ripe peach just waiting to be picked but when you 're opened up — surprise , surprise ! |
| 23 | The Old Gang Smelting Mills reminded me of an old deserted coal pit I played around as a child . |
| 24 | I bought another dress in Barnard Castle made from very fine material with a flared skirt , and the Daily Mail kindly presented me with a broad-brimmed floral hat and a pair of white gloves to take some very nice photographs . |
| 25 | I have been in touch with a firm that will supply me with a new galvanised chassis which will accept any engine and gearbox conversion I choose . |
| 26 | He is well-dressed , superficially well-mannered , but reminds me of a flirtatious married host at a barbecue . |
| 27 | He reminds me of the average royal personage , who is one person in company and another when alone … |
| 28 | Gradually I drifted apart from Beth and Ida , but I am always grateful to them because they also introduced me to the other great interest in their lives — ballet . |
| 29 | MODEL Sophia Berggren has been telling me about the unusual special effects used for her current Clairol hair colouring advertisement . |
| 30 | THE Rev. Martin Smyth , MP , has been telling me of a neat little trick pulled by local people to have houses built at Innes Place on the Donegall Road . |