Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] 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 | Mum told me about the various forms of contraception but apart from that we did n't really talk about it . |
| 5 | The boy found me at the sweet shop across the street , and told me of the drama . |
| 6 | The Queen received me with the greatest kindness and consideration . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The young lady took me through the untidy garden to the house . |
| 9 | So the sent me to the er eye infirmary and of course the eye infirmary sent me to the blind school . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The proprietor led me into the windowless gloom . |
| 12 | My hon. Friend asked me about the medical ethics of the issue . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The striking of the half hour alerted me to the incoming tide of darkness . |
| 15 | My acupuncturist told me about the broad-leafed veg , and I did n't think to ask him what he was on about . |
| 16 | ‘ But John Reed knocked me down and my aunt locked me in the red room , ’ I cried . |
| 17 | My father took me to the Soviet Union when I was very small . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | My next tour took me through the outside gardens , of which there were quite a number , all of a very high standard . |
| 23 | I had a mental picture of the conductor on the red London bus talking to Hammouda the village postman , of the English boy 's friends playing with Khadija 's grandson , especially Margaret , whose hair reminded me of the coloured feather duster Khadija 's grandson had pleaded for everytime he saw it in the market , thinking that it was a toy or a bird . |
| 24 | A group of pupils studying science asked me about the new member of staff . |
| 25 | The day after I finished working for the managing director of a certain company fighting off a take-over bid , the agency sent me to the rival company . ’ |
| 26 | I did n't lack support ; the Spanish public knew me from the European Indoor . |
| 27 | The romance of the French Foreign Legion struck me in the same way , and especially the exhibits from Kolwezi and Chad , where there were photographs of camouflaged paras with shaved heads and sunglasses helping starving babies . |
| 28 | As I panted in the thin air , a herdboy passed me on the broken steps which zigzagged up the mountainside , joining the smooth terraces with their retaining walls of stone . |
| 29 | My mother told me about the famous people who lived in them . |
| 30 | I laughed when my mother told me of the entire postnatal fortnight spent in the maternity hospital , with bedpans and blanket baths and fierce ward sisters who wagged fingers at you if you as much as stuck a big toe over the side of the bed . |