Example sentences of "[prep] me [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Since this campaign began , not a day has passed without them trying to spin some story or other about me to the local paper . |
| 2 | Fortunately I do n't have to do the really dangerous stuff , buteven backstage in the wings I did have a few things falling about me on the last day in Manchester . |
| 3 | Nine till one for me on the late show Adrian . |
| 4 | Joe made room for me with the same amount of good grace he might have afforded an enemy invading his castle and we sat for a few minutes without speaking , inspecting the view . |
| 5 | Anyway , I 'm only being friendly with Dr Rafaelo so that he 'll arrange a meeting for me with the handsome Miguelito . |
| 6 | Particular highlights for me over the last year have included : |
| 7 | She was good at sewing , and managed to make some clothes for me in the thinnest material available . |
| 8 | He thinks there 's a part for me in the new play at the Queen 's . ’ |
| 9 | You have always shown your love for me in the best way you knew how . |
| 10 | My father looked after me on the long journey home , and sat with me for every minute . |
| 11 | The Frenchman sat opposite me at the large farmhouse table chatting away for all he was worth and after the meal he puffed away at his pipe as if he had n't a care in the world . |
| 12 | I saw a group walking towards me through the ashen darkness . |
| 13 | It is rushing towards me over the uneven ground . |
| 14 | I looked towards the chateau entrance and saw Queen Poison , dreadful as an army in battle array , sweep towards me across the lowered drawbridge , arms extended as if she wished to clasp me to her deceitful bosom . |
| 15 | Le Maître always behaves towards me with the utmost propriety , whatever people may be saying to the contrary . ’ |
| 16 | Instead of being cosily tucked up in her bunk near the bar , she surprisingly came walking towards me from the sleeping car forward of Filmer 's , her diamonds lighting small bright fires with every step . |
| 17 | I turned back to find Yvonne 's grinning face looking past me in the same direction . |
| 18 | ‘ Dustin was so far ahead of me through the first half of the picture , it was n't even funny , ’ Peckinpah confessed . |
| 19 | She walked ahead of me on the narrow path ; she had slender legs and pretty ankles . |
| 20 | ‘ I felt I might have passed the pair in front of me on the last lap but what was the point , I had no chance of winning and this is a tough circuit . ’ |
| 21 | I did the business with my camera , now there was plenty of light with the barn doors open , and was in the process of replacing the tarpaulin when the alarm bells went off and scared the hell out of me for the second time in five minutes . |
| 22 | As the white cliffs of Dover receded and the coast of France drew near , the inimitable excitement of ‘ abroad ’ took hold of me for the first time — the only really positive emotion I had felt for twenty-six months . |
| 23 | ‘ I sent him ahead of me for the six-month quarantine , and the day he got out was one of the best days of my life . ’ |
| 24 | I started sweating when they called out the bloke ahead of me in the high jump . |
| 25 | Beneath me on the other side of the hill was a circle of old stone huts . |
| 26 | I know no touch of consanguinity — No kin , no love , no blood , no soul so near me As the sweet Troilus . |
| 27 | And he took his up on Norwich Hill ; took the horses out and come home to Bungay with the horses behind me on the empty cart or trolley . |
| 28 | But what I 'd like you to do is to go with me during the next couple of hours , have an open mind and erm if I say something which is in an in any way provocative , question me if you want to , cos that 's what we 're here for , to communicate . |
| 29 | It was a merry-go-round with me as the central pole … |
| 30 | It was a merry-go-round with me as the central pole . |