Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] me [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had each Wednesday afternoon off from Russell 's and he enroled me , secretly , into his school for lessons with his normal classes , He and his wife held a weekly open house and these cramming sessions prepared me for the coming Halton entrance examination . |
| 2 | I felt strange , almost disembodied , but my feet carried me to the green door and I pushed it open . |
| 3 | Two dates faced me in the late summer , early autumn of that year . |
| 4 | I ca n't sleep at night for that baby crying , I ca n't breathe in the daytime for that stench of tallow coming out of their back door — and one of his customers brushed me into the dusty street the other day … |
| 5 | Ellen had gone to her one-room apartment in town while Thessy was reading his Bible in the main-cabin , so I heated myself some baked beans in Wavebreaker 's microwave , spread them on buttered toast , soaked them in brown sauce , then ate a morose supper on deck until the bugs drove me to the screened sanctuary of the staterooms below . |
| 6 | When I had the baby , Stephen , the screws left me in the outside hospital but they took my clothes . |
| 7 | The second day continued where the first day left off : four catches by Hick to equal the record for a Test against Pakistan originally set by the little-remembered spinner Jim McConnon of Glamorgan in 1954 , and then my researches led me to the remarkable fact that John Birch , who played for Notts from 1973 to 1988 , was known as ‘ Bonk ’ . |
| 8 | Some 36 years later I was invited to become Patron of Vliegclub Grimbergen , which honour I took very seriously and when my Belgian friends told me of the threatened closure of this , one of the busiest of Belgium 's general aviation airfields , I could see no obvious reason for closure , other than what only seemed to me to be political bias . |
| 9 | For some time three of the barefoot children accompanied me along the seldom-used path . |