Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] me [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The sessions not only pointed me in the right direction for obtaining information , they taught me a lot about the sort of questions I should be asking . ’ |
| 2 | Kenneth More told me of the unfortunate happenings on the set of The Mercenaries which he made in 1966 in Jamaica with Hollywood star ( though Australian born ) Rod Taylor and American football star Jim Brown . |
| 3 | In fact , we did go down there for a week to explore the possibilities , and I admitted that it was n't what it was and that the rosy glow that still suffused me at the very name was probably nostalgia for my touring days , when it was the most prestigious of all the dates . |
| 4 | There was a period of incredibly intense excitement which , I think , probably sustained me for the next five or ten years . |
| 5 | Gradually I drifted apart from Beth and Ida , but I am always grateful to them because they also introduced me to the other great interest in their lives — ballet . |
| 6 | What really attracted me to the whole idea was that June said : ‘ Personally I think it is the greatest thing since sliced bread . ’ |
| 7 | She often told me of the nightly air-raids , her parents worn out from fire-watching , houses in the familiar streets suddenly plunged into dust , people suddenly gone , news of sons lost at the Front . |
| 8 | The Maggot now ordered me into the right-hand pilot 's seat and told me to keep my thieving hands off his knobs . |
| 9 | ‘ Its note is a loud ringing and very peculiar sound , somewhat resembling the worlds Clink , clink , several times repeated , and strongly reminded me of the distant sound of the stroke on a blacksmith 's anvil , and hence the term ‘ arguta ’ appeared to me to be an appropriate specific appellation for this new species . ’ |
| 10 | She-She then parked me in the aromatic cubicle . |
| 11 | And she says her day with Becky and the team was a revelation : ‘ The Granada Reports people came to my house to film me in some of my own clothes and then took me to the Hillcrest Hotel in Widnes where I had my hair styled and my make-up done , and then tried on lots of different outfits . |
| 12 | I bet you never saw me as the faithful little wife . |
| 13 | Fey was something they would tell me I had just invented , but it is something that never left me during the entire period I was an Instructor and sadly I was to learn very shortly after he left Kinloss that he did not survive very long on the squadron that he joined . |