Example sentences of "[prep] me [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ After the defeat at Bramall Lane they had the biggest hammering they 've had off me for a long time . |
| 2 | I was due to attend a meeting with several other women whom I knew and felt in sympathy with , and when I arrived there , the weight of my unhappiness just rolled off me like an unwanted burden . |
| 3 | ‘ Since this campaign began , not a day has passed without them trying to spin some story or other about me to the local paper . |
| 4 | They do n't pay me much , but I 'm looking about me for a good opportunity . |
| 5 | I have said I understand little ; at that moment I understood nothing , and that terrible lack ran through me like an electric shock . |
| 6 | He was good enough to organize a complimentary flight for me on the Imperial Airways ' flying boat which plied the sea and air routes between Long Island Sound and Bermuda several times each week . |
| 7 | Nine till one for me on the late show Adrian . |
| 8 | Please reserve a place for me on the POTENTIAL TEACHERS DAY on Saturday 8th March , for which I enclose the fee of £5.00 . |
| 9 | her used glass for me at a private view — |
| 10 | A part time post was created for me at a busy hospital 40 miles from home , and the arrangement worked very well . |
| 11 | ‘ She has worked for me for a long time . |
| 12 | ‘ Mr Tunney , ’ he gasped — mistaking me for someone else ? as he reached for me with a flailing hand . |
| 13 | ( What kind of a rest is it meant to be for me with a querulous adolescent ? |
| 14 | Anyway , I 'm only being friendly with Dr Rafaelo so that he 'll arrange a meeting for me with the handsome Miguelito . |
| 15 | I am so intrigued I forget about Crilly , who is ready for me with an unwrinkled surface of silver , the smack neatly concentrated into a lump . |
| 16 | The reader in men and masculinity from Bradford University conjured up images for me of a muscular man walking in with a few four-packs of larger under his arms ready to address BASW delegates . |
| 17 | It was for me like the young people out there doing their Licenza Classica . |
| 18 | I once had to have the gnomic response of one respected editor of a major journal interpreted for me by a senior colleague . |
| 19 | The world spread out for me in a new map of associations and sensations . |
| 20 | He thinks there 's a part for me in the new play at the Queen 's . ’ |
| 21 | Hopefully it will do the same for me in the Welsh mountains , and enable me to walk onto specific grid bearings and find some ancient markers . |
| 22 | My father looked after me on the long journey home , and sat with me for every minute . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'd be scared of them coming after me with a big shotgun . |
| 24 | The Frenchman sat opposite me at the large farmhouse table chatting away for all he was worth and after the meal he puffed away at his pipe as if he had n't a care in the world . |
| 25 | I saw a group walking towards me through the ashen darkness . |
| 26 | It is rushing towards me over the uneven ground . |
| 27 | The sun crept towards me over the red tiles . |
| 28 | Each time I saw you coming dancing towards me along a sunny street , moving lightly on your toes like a boxer , with your slightly duck-toed run that I , a turned-out-toes walker , found so male and so sexy , my heart jumped in my throat and I wanted to run towards you and throw myself into your arms . |
| 29 | I looked towards the chateau entrance and saw Queen Poison , dreadful as an army in battle array , sweep towards me across the lowered drawbridge , arms extended as if she wished to clasp me to her deceitful bosom . |
| 30 | Sergia interrupted , moving towards me with a stern gaze . |