Example sentences of "[prep] me [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Since this campaign began , not a day has passed without them trying to spin some story or other about me to the local paper . |
| 2 | Nine till one for me on the late show Adrian . |
| 3 | Anyway , I 'm only being friendly with Dr Rafaelo so that he 'll arrange a meeting for me with the handsome Miguelito . |
| 4 | He thinks there 's a part for me in the new play at the Queen 's . ’ |
| 5 | My father looked after me on the long journey home , and sat with me for every minute . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I saw a group walking towards me through the ashen darkness . |
| 8 | It is rushing towards me over the uneven ground . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Le Maître always behaves towards me with the utmost propriety , whatever people may be saying to the contrary . ’ |
| 11 | Instead of being cosily tucked up in her bunk near the bar , she surprisingly came walking towards me from the sleeping car forward of Filmer 's , her diamonds lighting small bright fires with every step . |
| 12 | She walked ahead of me on the narrow path ; she had slender legs and pretty ankles . |
| 13 | ‘ I sent him ahead of me for the six-month quarantine , and the day he got out was one of the best days of my life . ’ |
| 14 | I started sweating when they called out the bloke ahead of me in the high jump . |
| 15 | Beneath me on the other side of the hill was a circle of old stone huts . |
| 16 | I know no touch of consanguinity — No kin , no love , no blood , no soul so near me As the sweet Troilus . |
| 17 | And he took his up on Norwich Hill ; took the horses out and come home to Bungay with the horses behind me on the empty cart or trolley . |
| 18 | It was a merry-go-round with me as the central pole … |
| 19 | It was a merry-go-round with me as the central pole . |
| 20 | After a word with his clerks , Henniker came with me into the other room . |
| 21 | Superstar Cher is with me on the great cleanliness debate . |
| 22 | Luckily I had a friend who had run the photo lab at Time magazine who was working with me on the technical side and we came up with this idea of trying to use Fujichrome 1600 . |
| 23 | They will rendezvous with me at the Turkish Checkpoint in Nicosia . |
| 24 | Films like dreams come and go and are soon forgotten , yet King Kong , which I must have seen in 1933 , or early 1934 , with its scenes of adventure in a fabled land , was the one to overwhelm my mind and stay with me to the present day . |
| 25 | That you are British , blonde and pretty and clever , and you work with me in the medical centre . |
| 26 | Well , Herman Schrijver says he will hire a car when the warm weather comes and drive her down to lunch with me in the Green Belt … . |
| 27 | Father appeared above me on the top step and I wrenched myself out of the man 's nasty fingers . |
| 28 | I was crouching just feet away , terrified that at any moment one of the massive males would charge into me in the desperate struggle . |
| 29 | Bored stiff by him , I paid little attention : he retaliated by having me birched for idleness on three occasions , but these attempts to drive Latin into me from the wrong end proved equally unproductive . |
| 30 | THE small , middle-aged woman sitting alongside me in the rowdy ringside throng did not look particularly important . |