Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [prep] me [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tactics adopted by me against the large boy was to be used in all future fights with taller opponents , with the same success . |
| 2 | Now for a motor car I think you can say that the practical desirabilities of a car , and the acceleration and performance and looks are very important , one could also say that the fact that many people have their cars bought for me by the firm they work for means that they will therefore buy a larger car than they would if it was their own money that they were spending , so the market for cars is perhaps not one which is determined by energy efficiency or even optimum efficiency in terms of people 's and prestige is coming into it as much as these other factors and it is determined by who pays the money . |
| 3 | I was also on the receiving end of some pranks played on me by the cameramen . |
| 4 | Suddenly I saw two huge rats run towards me across the bed . |
| 5 | I shall just have to play on and ride out the recession and I feel I still have three good years left in me at the top . |
| 6 | There were too many strange things happening around me at the time . ’ |
| 7 | I remember how both feelings entered into me in the course of one evening … . |
| 8 | If things go against me on the ninth , then I go somewhere serious . " |
| 9 | I spent two hours responding to questions put to me by the Select Committee only a fortnight or so ago . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Whether he had had plans laid for me at the time , or whether at the back of his mind , hidden from consciousness , he knew that in taking me to live with him he would be enrolling someone to deal with the business side of his life , I was never sure . |
| 12 | However , what I have done is to use detailed assignment printouts given to me by the County Council , it 's erm these things here , to look at the changes in traffic flow along the whole length of the A sixty one between its southern junction with a proposed western relief road and its northern junction with a western relief road . |
| 13 | Accordingly I ought to be able to say that at this stage his comments seem to me beside the point , or more exactly in excess of it . |
| 14 | Accordingly , I will reach my decision on the basis of the evidence and arguments submitted to me by the parties . |
| 15 | I feel their flames go through me to the tower . |
| 16 | There were a couple of men waiting for me in the car park tonight , said they had a message for me from a ‘ friend ’ that ran along the lines of warning me to keep my nose out of things that did n't concern me . ’ |
| 17 | I have hinted that the dawn has many times come to me through the leaves of the willow , but it is less the tree itself nowadays that transmits things seen to my mind — than something of which the willow is a visible type . |
| 18 | When the little ones squeeze past me in the Superette I give their mops the chaste old tousle . |
| 19 | I had four cameras lying around me on the seabed , all set at different distances . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ It did n't really sink in what I had done until I returned to school on the Monday morning and saw all the television cameras waiting for me at the gates , ’ says Dozzell . |
| 21 | I must admit my first reaction was that it was a leg-pull ; there were always joke letters coming to me at the studio . |
| 22 | It was from KeriKeri I started the two-hour flight in a 152 that took me over Hokianga Harbour on the Tasman Sea , along Ninety-Mile Beach to the northernmost tip of New Zealand , and right above a school of dolphins swimming below me in the crystal-clear Pacific waters of Doubtless Bay . |