Example sentences of "[verb] me [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After all this high-profile imagery I had fully expected the Serenade to hit me with a physical force akin to Karajan 's classic BPO digital remake ( DG ) . |
| 2 | The shaft of the arrow protruding from my back occasionally knocked against something , bringing me to a gasping halt . |
| 3 | They wanted to kill me in a horrific way , to frighten those who work in defence of human rights . |
| 4 | She met me with a friendly smile , shook my hand and introduced me to the class : ‘ This is Wanda , our new pupil who has come to live in our village . |
| 5 | ‘ Let's go and have a drink , then you can treat me to a celebratory dinner ! ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Other students did n't treat me as a mature student and I got to know students aged 17 to 70 . |
| 7 | But please , Mama , Lucinda pleaded silently , do n't treat me like a complete idiot . |
| 8 | ‘ You need not treat me like a half-witted child ! ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Why ca n't he treat me like a good-time girl , ’ wailed Babs . |
| 10 | Do n't treat me like a naughty schoolgirl . |
| 11 | No yes Mr Singe is dedicated to the fewcher of Athletes Whaddon and to proove it has prezented me with a BLANK czech for £53–24p only , which is at my dispozal for strainthning the squid . |
| 12 | ‘ Did you ever take drugs ? ’ the senator asked me after a long silence . |
| 13 | Pain , boredom and badgering of some very kind nurses bring me to a steam-age typewriter in the hospital 's occupational therapy department . |
| 14 | It seems at first quite astonishing to learn that neither the inventory in Jacques 's marriage contract nor that made after death provides any evidence that he was a flute-player or maker ; they seem to contradict the generally held view that he was a maker - a view which is supported by an entry in von Uffenbach 's diary which records a visit he paid Jacques in 1715 : ‘ He [ Jacques ] led me into a tidy room and showed me there many beautiful transverse flutes that he himself makes and from which he wishes to gain special profit . ’ |
| 15 | She returned a few minutes later and somewhat grudgingly led me into a little room at the back . |
| 16 | I waited in the office for an hour before she led me into a darkened side ward . |
| 17 | I skulked down one side of the garden and went through the arch which led me to a walled garden in the middle of which there was a fountain playing . |
| 18 | I gave my orders and they led me to a private room and brought me some writing paper and a pen . |
| 19 | Where was Um Al-Farajh , I asked him , and he led me to a large square of fir trees and pointed to the earth . |
| 20 | I first met him when he came to interview me as a young reporter . |
| 21 | Fiona hugged me as a long-lost brother and said Harry still could n't be quite clear in his mind as he was saying now that he remembered drowning . |
| 22 | And the , I went to the my little now in Italy , making this conditional he says it 's no bloody good on me , poor old curly what , I think he 's about ninety , he looked it , he said what they keep making you conditional for he said you 've got no ruddy condition it 's gone and the , the recommended me for a complete discharge and , and eh , I started off with fifty per cent pension . |
| 23 | Their one hundred and fifty ton heavy life crane would have coped with that job easily enough but I hastily declined his offer which , apart from any other consideration would have placed me at a slight disadvantage . |
| 24 | The central figure points me to a single chair , placed opposite . |
| 25 | My course will eventually qualify me for a good career but meanwhile I 'm struggling on an allowance . |
| 26 | Wessex region would not recognise me as a senior registrar until the college 's approval had been received . |
| 27 | I mean , he 's respected me in a queer way . |
| 28 | Undeterred he burst into song , serenading me in a loud baritone with Italian pop songs . |
| 29 | ‘ Then perhaps you can assist me on a minor point of methodology ? ’ |
| 30 | On the day before de Macon sailed on his second voyage , the Ralembergs invited me to a formal supper . |