Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] me [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My first bike was a Hercules , which Grandma got for me from a niece of hers . |
| 2 | Yeah he mentioned to me about a month ago well I think it was at Christmas , it was probably at Christmas time |
| 3 | Much more cogent reasons for Ms Brown 's correct conviction are to be found in Lady Diana 's own words , which I quote from Philip Ziegler 's biography and which amply confirms others , just as forceful , that she used to me in the course of our more than 40 years of close friendship : I never responded to his dribbling , dwarfish little amorous singeries . |
| 4 | This is another of Nic Picot 's tricks which he tried on me in the pub outside the Magic Circle . |
| 5 | It never occurred to me for a moment that she had planned it all in cold blood . ’ |
| 6 | I accepted this as natural ; it never occurred to me at the time that a housemaster could also be a friend . |
| 7 | ‘ It occurred to me at the time , ’ said Ian carefully , thinking that two could play at infant teaching , ‘ that it was candlelight , not , that is to say ’ — he managed contempt in his tone with no effort at all — ‘ electric light . ’ |
| 8 | Liz , the receptionist , peered at me over the top of her pink-rimmed spectacles . |
| 9 | I I went to Dolgarrog came for me with a car and Mr could n't be there . |
| 10 | She came with me for no reason at all , whereas it would have taken quite a few other PCs to shift her . |
| 11 | And she ended up spending , it was the best part of the day with me and she came with me to a couple of meetings I went to . |
| 12 | The next morning he came with me to the station , and as we waited for the train , we watched the crowds . |
| 13 | Arthur Cook , a friend of mine who lived in The Friary , came with me to the allotment and after a while I suppose we became bored — we were only seven . |
| 14 | A chubby young man called Laird Cregar appealed to me as a suspect , if only because he had the habit of being seen loitering around places where beautiful women had just been strangled . |
| 15 | The major attention then was focused on Vietnam and there were very few people covering Cambodia , which also appealed to me as a journalist . ’ |
| 16 | It came to me as a gift , a little black-faced lamb sent to me by the Batesons who were farming Briscoe at the time . |
| 17 | ‘ I used to rehearse what I 'd say to my students if they came to me with a problem like this , ’ said William , ‘ but no one ever did . |
| 18 | We carried on a rather halting conversation and it came to me with a bump that my mind had been forced on to different tracks since I had left her . |
| 19 | When he initially came to me with the novel , I thought , ‘ Victor 's a Rasta , it 's going to be something about Haile Selassie . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ The composer came to me with the piece , which had written with me in mind , ’ says Lin . |
| 21 | Agassi 's coach came to me with the rackets . |
| 22 | Let's just tell you what you look like , you came to me for a job you would n't get it . |
| 23 | Aunt Louise came to me at the end of the summer . |
| 24 | It came to me in a flash . |
| 25 | ‘ It came to me in a moment . |
| 26 | No more than an hour passed before Jean-Claude came to me in the scullery and said he would be away for a few days . |
| 27 | I waited until you came to me in the hospital , I had to . |
| 28 | When Pat came to me in the autumn of 1989 she was suffering from osteoarthritis of the neck and spine with accompanying raised blood pressure . |
| 29 | ‘ When they came to me in the summer , some of the shirts they offered were horrible . |
| 30 | Then he muttered to me from the corner of his mouth . |