Example sentences of "[vb -s] me [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He maketh me to lie down in green pastures : he leadeth me beside the still waters . |
| 2 | Pa sits me on the wooden bench he has built facing the altar , and himself sits down next to me . |
| 3 | Everyone loves me for the very things that you want me to cover up ! |
| 4 | The current advert for the Washburn Mercury guitar revolts me to the very depths of my soul . |
| 5 | Susan uses me for the first person pronoun [ G2 ] , and unmarked past tense [ G4 ] in tell , see , pick and run , and she has initial /t/ in ting , " thing " [ P17 ] . |
| 6 | That leads me to the last question , ground ( 7 ) . |
| 7 | This leads me to the last determinant of transmission teaching I want to explore here : that of teacher isolation . |
| 8 | The second point is on correspondence , I 'm absolutely certain that when a member of public writes in to any department , not necessarily highway , he expects and needs an immediate response , now I know you have , you have started the acknowledgement of our system , but I think it 's , it does n't go far enough , an acknowledgement card that simply says the thing is received and is receiving attention , needs to then indicate the individual to whom that matter has been passed for attention and that leads me to the third point and I think the general complaint on the public is that local government is seen as faceless people and I think we have to get in our mind to name people within our department , there 's not one mention about it in our promise , I think we need , unless I 've not read it , but I think , I think we , yes , but I think we need to mention people by name , senior people within the department who will respond to particular things and certainly where public comes into contact within the offices we must get around to wearing a name badge who says who that person is , people want to relate to a person and I think we can do that if we try . |
| 9 | And that , logically , leads me to the obvious conclusion — that I love you , and that we must be married as soon as possible . |
| 10 | McDunn introduces me to the other officers . |
| 11 | Even if I did n't have a job that keeps me at the other end of the country for most of the year , this sort of place could n't provide a living . |
| 12 | It also keeps me on the right track as well . |
| 13 | Then the reader 's fingernail will be able to produce the scent of clematis that wafts in through my window , the foie gras that awaits me at lunch , the liquid inspiration that gets me through the final paragraph . |
| 14 | ‘ What depresses me about the whole position is that skills are so important and the lack of them now is undermining our whole competitive position . |
| 15 | Awaits me in the scented dark . |
| 16 | It 's all good-humoured teasing and winding up , and for my part I 've long since ceased to care whether or not anyone regards me as the worst climber in the world or some sort of antediluvian relic with no rights to any opinion on ‘ rock climbing as it is done these days . ’ |
| 17 | I have to dress in my sweaty , dirty clothes and go back down to the kitchen , grumbling while she makes me a coffee , and I complain about my wet boots and she gives me a fresh pair of William 's socks to wear and I put them on and drink my coffee and whine about never being allowed to spend the night and tell her how just once I 'd like to wake up here in the morning , and have a nice , civilised breakfast with her , sitting on the sunny balcony outside the bedroom windows , but she makes me sit down while she laces my boots up , then takes my coffee cup off me and sends me out the back door and says I 've got two minutes before she arms the alarm and puts the infrared lights on stand-by so I have to go back the way I came , over the estate wall and through the wood and down into the stream where I get both feet wet and cold and I fall going up the bank and get all muddy and eventually drag myself up and through the hedge , scratching my cheek and tearing my polo-neck and then trudging across the field through heavy rain and more mud and finally getting to the car and panicking when I ca n't find the car keys before remembering I put them in the button-down back pocket of the jeans for safety instead of the side pocket like I usually do , and then having to put some dead branches under the front wheels because the fucking car 's stuck and finally getting away and home and even in the street light I can see what a mess of the pale upholstery my muddy clothes have made . |
| 18 | I think the one thing , that that really annoys me about the royal family is the way they speak and the fact that the way that they speak is still re re regarded by certain sections of the , population , both in Scotland and in England , as being er , the correct way in which the English language should be pronounced , which is of course , arrant nonsense ! |
| 19 | The carpenter tells me about the Khaki scouts . |
| 20 | He tells me of the only time he has seen his mother drink ; her infant grandchild vomited on her coat , and she spouted a fine , volatile performance , screaming Christ Almighty the cross a woman has to bear , taking the Lord 's name in vain for the very first time . |
| 21 | If I rush it unsettles me for the whole session , and I invariably feel as though I have not done something right . |
| 22 | That remi you 've C Cynthia saying that reminds me of the other thing that came out in feedback . |
| 23 | Mention of sport for all reminds me of the tremendous debt owed for the volunteers of our sport . |
| 24 | Some of the scenery between the city and the seaside reminds me of the industrial landscape around Mephistco Plant Number Three , but the light 's even duller . |
| 25 | The sound reminds me of the bass sound on all those expensively-produced American AOR albums — smooth , almost too clean , but live there 's an enormous amount of wallop available . ’ |
| 26 | The average Council Tax payer , the council tax ca n't be more than , around four percent erm which reminds me of the last miracle budget we had , ninety eighty nine I think it was , again a Labour budget which I think was three point nine per cent increase then and the lowest rate of increase for twenty years erm and the highest level of growth erm . |
| 27 | ‘ It reminds me of the worst period in German history when members of certain institutions are held collectively responsible for what we now know was a misguided security doctrine , ’ Gen Schwanitz said . |
| 28 | Dumbo puts me in the front passenger seat and seats himself behind . |
| 29 | This strikes me as the best way of getting a real working knowledge of computers . |
| 30 | Besides , the only people who live beyond here are that Elizabeth and the farmer , and neither of them strikes me as the riotous type . ’ |