Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [prep] me [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I am grateful for the support given to me by the London Fire Brigade and I would also like to thank the Fire Brigades Union . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I am grateful for the support given to me by the London Fire Brigade , who have done all they can to help me over the years since the fire , and I would also like to thank the Fire Brigades Union for underwriting the risks of my legal claim . ’ |
| 3 | You can appreciate by the remarks my agent made to me on the telephone ( words which I swear I have not amended or distorted in any way at all ) just how big and unpleasant a problem I have sitting like a gibbering troll on my innocent shoulders . |
| 4 | All in all it was with a feeling of indescribable joy that on the sixth day I saw a familiar figure coming towards me among the prompt arrivals . |
| 5 | As one wag said to me at the time , ‘ Only R is different ’ . |
| 6 | As I did so I became aware of a youngish man with long hair looking at me from the pavemented walk on the Hammersmith side of the river . |
| 7 | The sun crept towards me over the red tiles . |
| 8 | Agassi 's coach came to me with the rackets . |
| 9 | I just could n't get the Queen to talk to me about the situation . |
| 10 | ‘ What saddened me about the reviews , ’ said Crawford , ‘ was n't so much that they had a go at the play , but they did n't recognise all the work done for me by the rest of the team . |
| 11 | But Sally was so good , Luckily I 'd remembered to pack the Farley 's Rusks and she had those mixed up with boiled water the guard got for me from the restaurant car . ’ |
| 12 | The cat rushed past me into the hallway . |
| 13 | The scene lay before me like the field of a medieval tourney : banners and bunting and ladies in jewel-bright colours . |
| 14 | ‘ It is not a seen gaze , but a gaze imagined by me in the field of the other ’ ( Lacan 1981 ) . |
| 15 | Their response never ceases to amaze me , as does the accolade accorded to me by the fans . |
| 16 | Her question remained with me throughout the rest of the journey . |
| 17 | For a moment I thought he had come across the bottle of wine given to me by the couple at Benouville bridge café . |
| 18 | I saw a group walking towards me through the ashen darkness . |
| 19 | It was the only vacancy offered to me at the time |
| 20 | ‘ Only one thing of importance happened to me in the Argentine . |
| 21 | For a moment I sensed his eye staring at me through the hole in the door but as soon as I looked at it the lens flashed and the cover on the other side swung quickly to rest . |
| 22 | Leaving aside the phrase that the hon. Gentleman attributed to me in the early part of his question , I can reassure him that the budget for the health service will be £3.7 billion , an increase of £342 million , or 10.1 per cent . |
| 23 | But I stay out there singing some made-up song that goes with the waves crunching on the shingle , so she tosses stones in the water to plop near me in the darkness and I shout like an idiot and run back to the shore . |
| 24 | Nigel turned his head to look at me for the first time and smiled in a kindly manner . |
| 25 | The rising tower of debris blossomed and drifted , starting to fall as the shockwave pulsed at me from the dune . |
| 26 | The earliest evidence known to me about the special devotion of the Fabii to Hercules goes back to Fabius Cunctator in the second Punic War ( Plin . |
| 27 | Between mouthfuls of food I enquire from the Commando sitting beside me on the grass ‘ What is he up to with that pig ? ’ |
| 28 | ( 'They said to me in the shop , ’ she 'd said to Anna , ‘ they said did I want the one with a little man on or not . |
| 29 | For the first time I had an opportunity of seeing Barbara at work in detailed negotiations , and whatever small credit attached to me for the major idea , the scale and ingenuity that she expended on the detail and in making it possible to arrive at a suitable settlement was beyond praise . |
| 30 | My father read to me in the evening , something I looked forward to enormously . |