Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] me [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would like and I feel humble for asking , for anyone to write to me about the above . |
| 2 | After some thought he said ; ‘ Well , I have a daughter your age , and if she were to come to me with the same question I would advise her to terminate . ’ |
| 3 | Knowing this to be his likely mood when I brought in the tea yesterday afternoon , and being aware of his general propensity to talk with me in a bantering tone at such moments , it would certainly have been wiser not to have mentioned Miss Kenton at all . |
| 4 | I understand you want to talk to me about the late Mr Hatton . |
| 5 | So it was , I assume , that he felt immediately able to talk to me in a businesslike and trusting way , and by the end of our meeting , he had left me with the administration of a not inconsiderable sum to meet the costs of a wide range of preparations for his coming residency . |
| 6 | Some time before he had asked me if I knew this most neglected of novelists , coming up to talk to me in a blue-green Athenian bar from which he was almost at once to be evicted for a splendid falsetto rendering of ‘ The Lost Chord ’ . |
| 7 | He first tried to talk to me in an English pub . |
| 8 | Because of a vague feeling of loyalty , a need to repay someone or something who had seemed to walk with me through the burning fiery furnace of my husband 's last illness , I had started now and then to go to church . |
| 9 | Nigel turned his head to look at me for the first time and smiled in a kindly manner . |
| 10 | I let myself in , and stopped to look around me in the small outer room . |
| 11 | But what I 'd like you to do is to go with me during the next couple of hours , have an open mind and erm if I say something which is in an in any way provocative , question me if you want to , cos that 's what we 're here for , to communicate . |
| 12 | ‘ I am , ’ Piers agreed , ‘ although you can continue to think of me as a glorified carpenter if you like . ’ |
| 13 | And because , as I say , of my conventional background there seemed at the time a tendency to think of me as a reactionary young man . |
| 14 | He was coming to stay with me for the British Grand Prix in three weeks , ’ said Lord Hesketh , now Government Chief Whip in the House of Lords . |
| 15 | ‘ Gardening vexeth the spirit , ’ my dad used to say to me with a broad wink whenever my mum asked him to get out and cut the lawn . |
| 16 | He was honest enough to admit that he had to rely on me for the practical side of the business , and gave me a good rise in pay . |
| 17 | Now here 's the interesting bit , in the next few minutes , I 'll be telling you how you can win the chance to travel with me on an all expenses paid trip . |