Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] me [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Sure enough , a high-pitched peeping drew me to the stable , and there on the floor was the hen with one minute black puff-ball of a chick . |
2 | A boat returned me to the little coral landing-strip ; Friendly Islands Airways took me down to Tongatapu ; and within half a day I was settled in a small hotel in Auckland , waiting for the weekly Cathay Pacific jet home . |
3 | A minibus took me through the early morning light to Makindye , in the southern suburbs of the city , where the first Uganda National Women 's Festival of Music and Drama was in full swing in a large church hall . |
4 | I held Elizabeth close , and as I held her , I saw the monster watching me through the open window of the room . |
5 | Mum told me about the various forms of contraception but apart from that we did n't really talk about it . |
6 | The current advert for the Washburn Mercury guitar revolts me to the very depths of my soul . |
7 | The boy found me at the sweet shop across the street , and told me of the drama . |
8 | The Queen received me with the greatest kindness and consideration . |
9 | The chairman of the committee telephoned me in the late spring of 1976 to say that they were organising a series of public meetings at Wapping when the committee 's plans for the area would be disclosed to the local population for the purpose of hearing their comments and enquiries . |
10 | The young lady took me through the untidy garden to the house . |
11 | So the sent me to the er eye infirmary and of course the eye infirmary sent me to the blind school . |
12 | Friday evening saw me at the National Gallery with her boyfriend and , quite literally , hundreds of other people , to the opening of the annual exhibition , sponsored this year by BP , of the Scottish Artists and Craftsmen . |
13 | 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 . ’ |
14 | Centrally organised arrangements are sometimes not appropriate and that point brings me to the hon. Member for Kincardine and Deeside ( Mr. Stephen ) . |
15 | The proprietor led me into the windowless gloom . |
16 | But JUSt as it IS proper for me to look back to my wedding day as assurance that I am really married , so it is proper to look back to my baptism as a mark given me by the Holy Spirit that I am really born again in Christ , and to the eucharist as a pledge that I do partake of his life , feed on him , and shall in the last day share his resurrection . |
17 | My hon. Friend asked me about the medical ethics of the issue . |
18 | The women I spoke to who had been through the whole procedure told me of the many exhausting visits they had had to make to the British Embassies and High Commissions , of the atmosphere of contempt at these places , of the pettiness of the Entry Clearance Officers ( ECOs ) and interpreters , and the rude and unreasonable questions they had had to answer . |
19 | He spent half a day teaching me about the various policies and endowments , the way to figure cash surrender values , the matter of group insurance , and the various approaches to a prospect by the insurance salesman . |
20 | Before the hon. Gentleman lectures me about the 0.7 per cent . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | The striking of the half hour alerted me to the incoming tide of darkness . |
23 | My acupuncturist told me about the broad-leafed veg , and I did n't think to ask him what he was on about . |
24 | ‘ But John Reed knocked me down and my aunt locked me in the red room , ’ I cried . |
25 | My father took me to the Soviet Union when I was very small . |
26 | Also , while I have the chance , could I point out that in spite of the FRCC guide crediting me with the first ascent of the bolt ladder route named Fiery Cross ( Dry Grasp ) on Upper Falcon Crag , it has nothing to do with me or B. Henderson , listed as my second . |
27 | In its clarity and purity of form , the mosque reminded me of the best early Cistercian architecture — that brief and precious half-century before the original ascetic urge began to give way to the worldly frivolity of the Later Middle Ages , the period that produced the great Chapter House at Fountains and the original dark-stone nave at Rievaulx . |
28 | Recording this news reminded me of the valuable role played by Area Presidents in guiding their Area and representing the Areas at a variety of events and functions . |
29 | The gate porter brought me to the main entrance , and I was shown into a small pleasant office in the front of the administrative block . |
30 | So I left , and as I walked back to my car , the man watched me from the little steel balcony upon which Kanaan Abu Khadra had played as a boy . |