Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] [vb past] me [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | One banking employee told me of the demise of her bank branch . |
| 2 | So the sent me to the er eye infirmary and of course the eye infirmary sent me to the blind school . |
| 3 | A splendid , concise article in your Apr 26 Business section alerted me to the underhand profiteering of at least one of the high street banks at its farmer customers ' expense before the scandal broke in the national press and before the Chancellor of the Exchequer carpeted the bank bosses . |
| 4 | The night watchman told me about the incident in the morning . |
| 5 | The auberge owner joined me at the door and stared with contempt at the sky . |
| 6 | I thought the hand-cranking on the ‘ 109 a bit dodgy , till an impatient Navy pilot threw me off the wing of a Harvard into the prop , miraculously only tearing my jacket and grazing my arm , putting me in dock for a couple of days . |
| 7 | Not just because of Joachim 's kindness but that chance encounter put me on the road to solving Selkirk 's riddles and the horrible murders they caused . ) |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | My missionary vocation landed me with the task , the experience probably did more for me than for the fifty to one hundred loyal missionary supporters who attended . |
| 10 | Yvonne Paul whose The Glamour Game ( W H Allen , £2.95 ) tells all about the Glamour Biz sent me in the blouse off her back , drenched in exotic perfume , as a ‘ thank-you ’ after I 'd interviewed her for the Daily Mail and mentioned how much I liked her get-up . |
| 11 | Then I wandered outside to look at the wreaths and the Salvation Army Captain touched me on the shoulder . |
| 12 | A dolf ball hit me in the mouf fo now I fpeak funny ! |
| 13 | Soon after my retirement the Oxford University Press approached me with the suggestion that I might collect and edit an anthology of prayers . |
| 14 | The German mortar team reminded me of the Commando mortar team back in the orchard at Brigade H.Q when they were mortaring the German positions . |
| 15 | Sundowner time found me at the Clachaig Inn ( JTR either went there or to the Temperance Hotel in Glencoe Village on the edge of Loch Leven ) after twenty-odd miles wandering and walking . |