Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [prep] me [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He tried to walk past me down the stairs , but I stopped him . |
| 2 | I let myself in , and stopped to look around me in the small outer room . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | As she turned to wait for me at the end of the path , I felt I was looking at her for the first time : her face paler than her arms , a blonde shadow on her upper lip , no lipstick . |
| 5 | He turned to look at me across the studio . |
| 6 | I turned to Jamie and then the girl , cleared my throat and said quite clearly : ‘ I did n't know if you two ever shared or , indeed , still do share , for that matter , for all that I know , at least mutually between yourselves but at any rate not including me — the misconception I once perchanced to place upon the words contained upon yonder sign , but it is a fact that I thought the ‘ union ’ referred to in said nomenclature delineated an association of working people , and it did seem to me at the time to be quite a socialist thing for the town fathers to call a street ; it struck me that all was not yet lost as regards the prospects for a possible peace or at the very least a cease-fire in the class war if such acknowledgements of the worth of trade unions could find their way on to such a venerable and important thoroughfare 's sign , but I must admit I was disabused of this sadly over-optimistic notion when my father-God rest his sense of humour-informed me that it was the then recently confirmed union of the English and Scottish parliaments the local worthies-in common with hundreds of other town councils throughout what had until that point been an independent realm — were celebrating with such solemnity and permanence , doubtless with a view to the opportunities for profit which this early form of takeover bid offered . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ She did come to me in the first place . ’ |
| 8 | I strongly felt that Resenence had come to me in the dream and yet , when I awoke , when the morning came , I told myself I had created it myself . |
| 9 | I had an Abaya ( the long black gown ) which I had carried with me on the plane and a scarf to cover my hair , so I was able to enter the Ministry of Health without shocking the men too much . |
| 10 | No , we had no accidents , the only one I had was er when I 'd been right to the top , with the other crane an and it was a long shop , and everyone had done with me during the morning , so I hoisted the crane up , pulled it in towards me and set myself going down the shop , put it in full speed . |
| 11 | Dr Geoffrey Pasvol of the John Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford said : ‘ There was so much there [ in Allison 's paper ] that Ian had said to me in the summer . ’ |
| 12 | Once again I had the feeling that what my father had said to me in the garden could all be some horrible trick . |
| 13 | Offering the blond English boy — the one I was throwing water at now — half my lunch , and sitting there full of gratitude because he smiled , because he liked the taste of the piece of chicken dipped in cumin and saffron and he had smiled at me for the first time . |
| 14 | Erm erm I , I think that you know I , that had occurred to me in the past |
| 15 | He no longer maintained the stance he had advanced to me on the telephone . |
| 16 | I looked back at the figure , which had not moved , which continued to stare at me from the shade through the sunlight over the gulley . |
| 17 | There , next to Miss Temple , stood the same black column which had frowned on me in the breakfast-room at Gateshead . |
| 18 | The last words he had spoken to me on the subject of kitchen units had been really quite abusive . |
| 19 | The conversation was wide-ranging , but gradually I told her the full story of what had happened to me over the previous year or so . |
| 20 | At the time of writing I was too taken up with the present to make any but the vaguest connection with what had happened to me in the past . |
| 21 | I had to accept what had happened to me in the past before I could even begin to accept the changes in my life . |
| 22 | He had happened upon me at the crucial moment : I had little idea of who I was or what I was entitled to from life , let alone what it behoved me to contribute . |
| 23 | Having talked to the person making the eighteenth birthday cake about our individual requirements , we chose some suitable flowers to fit a small silver vase that was placed on top of the cake , and once the guests had gone I hurried them into the presses I had taken with me to the party . |
| 24 | Sophie was supposed to be doing the chorus so I grabbed Mary , and said come with me on the half way through , called Sophie why are you doing all the talking Dot and not Mary ! |
| 25 | Harold Wilson had complained to me about the continuing hostility of the press towards him and wanted to know how to put it right . |
| 26 | He was honest enough to admit that he had to rely on me for the practical side of the business , and gave me a good rise in pay . |
| 27 | She stood looking at me from the end of the bed . |
| 28 | Which is why I should have welcomed the students who wanted to talk to me about the poetry of George Darley , which a misguided colleague of mine had included in a series of lectures on the early nineteenth century , and in so doing had worried the more discerning of my students , who were failing to see any merit there . |