Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] me [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THIS OPPORTUNITY PROVIDED ME WITH A WELCOME BREAK FROM THE PURELY BOTANICAL WORK TO WHICH I WAS ACCUSTOMED . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ I have also been to the Guildhall , ’ he mournfully concluded ‘ The mayor told me in no uncertain terms how displeased His Grace the Regent Duke of Lancaster is at our lack of progress . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Bonanza favoured me with a full-face view of him now . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | My first girlfriend left me for a new man . |
| 8 | I remember a hansom pipped me to a good prospect , in Threadneedle Street . |
| 9 | The unremitting four-mile ascent to the high pass over the ridge reduced me to a walking wet rag ; I was literally soaked to the skin and could feel rivulets chasing each other down my bosom . |
| 10 | Mum told me about the various forms of contraception but apart from that we did n't really talk about it . |
| 11 | The boy found me at the sweet shop across the street , and told me of the drama . |
| 12 | The Queen received me with the greatest kindness and consideration . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | A Reception lady showed me into a tiny broadcasting room full of switched-off microphones . |
| 15 | The young lady took me through the untidy garden to the house . |
| 16 | So the sent me to the er eye infirmary and of course the eye infirmary sent me to the blind school . |
| 17 | Once a lady aid a daughter , remote cousins or friends of friends , came , and the girl left me with a yearning heart for some days and a curiosity for years like my curiosity about the lost childish books . |
| 18 | ‘ Did you ever take drugs ? ’ the senator asked me after a long silence . |
| 19 | ‘ As I was saying , I went round and Daddy took me to a French restaurant he knew . ’ |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Knee and hip joints were creaking and it seemed that the prophecy made by doctors forty years before , that one day my legs and hips — the war left me with a short , stiff left leg — would really begin to seize up , was about to come true . |
| 22 | The proprietor led me into the windowless gloom . |
| 23 | My hon. Friend asked me about the medical ethics of the issue . |
| 24 | After two weeks with no sign of improvement , a friend told me of an excellent new rheumatologist who had just come to work in Chester . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The striking of the half hour alerted me to the incoming tide of darkness . |
| 27 | My acupuncturist told me about the broad-leafed veg , and I did n't think to ask him what he was on about . |
| 28 | My father told me of an old lady who to the end of her days referred to ‘ Amser Duw ac amser Lloyd George , ’ God 's time and Lloyd George 's time , for when the change was introduced during the Great War , there was chaos . |
| 29 | More happily , a colleague told me of a seventeen-year-old girl in his last parish who was cruelly told that she would be dead in a year . |
| 30 | One woman told me of a particular year in which seven close relatives died . |