Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] me [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apart from learning more about my own language , the eloquent richness of the Queen 's English and the previously undiscovered interest I had in teaching , my job brought me into close contact with real Spanish people . |
| 2 | Yet I found that the breadth of my Scottish education stood me in good stead in the work of assessing and editing material from the whole agenda of a serious newspaper . |
| 3 | My life lay away from them now , and the problems I had brought to work with me that morning reclaimed me with redoubled urgency . |
| 4 | I suppose that simple precept from that old foreman stood me in good stead for thirty odd years , until now . ’ |
| 5 | It was because the Communist Party fed me , that my learning stood me in good stead and I know at least this much and I live like this . |
| 6 | I was selling houses and apartments on a commission basis , and I think that my English accent stood me in good stead . |