Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] me [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This became for me a serious piece of policy . |
| 2 | I found it interesting , however , that Maxine — or Martha — experienced no anxiety due to the nearness of the sea , even when she described to me a violent storm when giant waves lashed the walls of the seaside dwellings . |
| 3 | And then he described to me the first time he and Montaine had happened upon it . |
| 4 | ‘ Forgive me if I seem to be playing the amateur sleuth once again , but something else occurred to me the other day , which might or might not be of interest to you . ’ |
| 5 | You drove past me the other day when I drov , was it you ? |
| 6 | He came with me the whole way of my round south of the Court . |
| 7 | In the strictness of my own father 's wisdom , he instilled into me a deep respect for the opposite sex , so that there was no physical play or caress with any women until after I had married my wife . |
| 8 | If slavery is not wrong nothing is wrong and yet I have never understood the presidency conferred upon me an unrestricted right to act officially upon this judgment and feeling and I aver that to this day I have done no official act in mere deference to my abstract judgment and feeling on slavery . |
| 9 | ‘ To be sure , the lad 's name is Gabriel , and he came to me the very day I was needing an angel . |
| 10 | If I got a question wrong , which I did more often than not , he would repeat it in what seemed to me a contemptuous tone until I got it right . |
| 11 | This seemed to me a poor reason for making the announcement and I told him that I strongly disapproved of his breach of trust . |
| 12 | I went into what seemed to me a Burmese restaurant . |
| 13 | Marjorie and Heather spent hours poring over cookery-books , which seemed to me a strange occupation for Oxford graduates , especially in the face of wartime rationing ; but perhaps it was a matter of the fox and the grapes , for I myself had not acquired any culinary skill . |
| 14 | What seemed to me a golden opportunity came to hand largely through Pearn 's connections with the History department in the University , to which he had now returned . |
| 15 | It seemed to me a natural thing to do . |
| 16 | Anchovy-paste sandwiches , scones and Dundee cake seemed to me an ample repast , particularly as I had a nervous , irrational distaste for eating the food of Syl 's mother in her house . |
| 17 | Reverently I picked it up and buried it in our back garden — three feet down seemed to me an appropriate depth . |
| 18 | This seemed to me the greatest achievement of the afternoon ; some people do n't even learn to think for themselves at university . |
| 19 | The chapel seemed to me the focal point of our small , humble community . |
| 20 | His daughter fed him on tins of baby food , which again confirmed for me the sour joke of existence and the particular contemptibility of this old man . |
| 21 | ‘ See , ’ said Renwick pointing to his balding pate , ‘ that 's what happened to me the last time I did n't stop ! ’ |
| 22 | Of course , he does not care a rap whether it is true or not — but he is dreadfully afraid that by prematurely espousing it he might lose some subscribers , though he acknowledged to me the other day he thought it would be generally accepted before long . ’ |
| 23 | I think they sensed in me a possible convert to their beliefs , merely because I was curious , or perhaps they genuinely liked me — I do n't know . |
| 24 | He relied on me a great deal because he knew I always knew what to do . |
| 25 | It was an immediate transformation of my personal and social outlook and it started in me a new sort of excitement — it was as though you 'd been shot full of adrenalin . |
| 26 | I dare not ask directly what is the precise matter but I see in Mr Browning 's eyes an anxiety deeper than usual and he confessed to me the other day that he fears there may be water on the lung . |
| 27 | They must have been — it meant for me a round journey of more than eighty miles just for a home fixture . |
| 28 | Jean-Claude saw in me an exotic combination of youth and money . |
| 29 | I believe that day implanted in me a life-long craving for barbaric splendour , for savagery and colour and the throb of drums , and that it gave me a lasting veneration for long-established custom and ritual , from which would derive later a deep-seated resentment of Western innovations in other lands , and a distaste for the drab uniformity of the modern world . |
| 30 | It did to me the first time we stayed . |