Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [to-vb] me [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ten painful operations to turn me into a picture |
| 2 | No , what I am looking at are the first direct signals to reach me from the dark constellation of Serafin . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | When I go skiing I want dozens of fast tows to whisk me to the top of runs and ensure I do n't have to queue for 20 minutes behind a junior racing team , trying to unclip each other 's bindings and seeing how far they can spit . |
| 5 | They made what seemed to me rather artificial efforts to draw me into the conversation . |
| 6 | I asked Stephen — one of the two hapless fathers and himself reduced to a mulberry-eyed basket case — if he still had enough marbles to drive me to the station at Orvieto . |
| 7 | ‘ Got some new tablets to get me through the Season supposed to be revolutionary — solve all problems . ’ |
| 8 | Some girls I knew had arranged for their two penfriends to meet me at the Gare du Nord and , somehow , we recognised one another . |
| 9 | ‘ If it worries you so much , Surgeon Chang , you might send two of your best men to accompany me on the journey home . |
| 10 | I enrolled under my maiden name , because I wanted other students to know me as a person first , as opposed to a professor 's wife . |
| 11 | ‘ I buy enough marmalade at local fayres to see me through the year . |