Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] me [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Little did I imagine that such a move was destined for me within the next two years . |
| 2 | I 've just had two presented to me in the last eight months . |
| 3 | THANK you to the great many readers who have written to me in the past couple of weeks about the Royals . |
| 4 | ‘ At least 130 people have either rang or written to me in the last few weeks . |
| 5 | MUCH OF THE INTERIOR OF MY FATE AND THAT OF JEAN-Claude 's was revealed to me in the opaque , vaporous interior of la Sologne . |
| 6 | I think that a good job has been done by the ITC , but I am prepared to consider any representations that are made to me about the future determination of licences . |
| 7 | It was certainly answered by me to the Select Committee , as the right hon. Gentleman , who attended the Committee , will know . |
| 8 | The tactics adopted by me against the large boy was to be used in all future fights with taller opponents , with the same success . |
| 9 | Leaving aside the phrase that the hon. Gentleman attributed to me in the early part of his question , I can reassure him that the budget for the health service will be £3.7 billion , an increase of £342 million , or 10.1 per cent . |
| 10 | But I flatter myself that I can meet this danger more calmly and securely than most philologists ; my philosophical seriousness is already too deeply rooted , the true and essential problems of life and thought have been too clearly shown to me by the great mystagogue Schopenhauer … " ( 1869 ) ; " I love the Greeks more and more … [ but ] … the philologist 's existence … seems to me more and more anomalous " ( 1870 ) ; " For me , everything that is best and most beautiful is associated with the names Schopenhauer and Wagner , and I am proud and happy to share this feeling with my closest friends " ( 1870 again ) ; and from the close of the same year , " Let us drag on in this university existence for a few more years ; let us take it as a sorrowful lesson … I realize what Schopenhauer 's doctrine of university wisdom is all about … |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Frigidity has only been better exemplified to me by the first psychotic woman I ever saw , who complained that her vagina contained a block of ice . |
| 13 | The earliest evidence known to me about the special devotion of the Fabii to Hercules goes back to Fabius Cunctator in the second Punic War ( Plin . |
| 14 | He said : ’ there is no statistical evidence that is known to me at the present time of people who are actually being discharged from the private sector We do not have evidence to bring to you of a substantial number of people who have been discharged against their will from the private sector . ’ |
| 15 | Teachers would come up smiling — not having spoken to me since the first year and now I was a sixth former . |
| 16 | Keld , like Thwaite , is a sleepy little place and will be forever remembered by me as the milkless village . |
| 17 | Before doing so I write to thank you all for the Loyal support and encouragement you have given to me during the past 14 years . |
| 18 | The official referred to me to the Homeless Unit . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | He will be settling his own sundry bills but I would like the invoice for the room to be directed to me at the above address . |
| 21 | The Youngs were with the Unwins from Australia and Filmer and Daffodil shared a table with a pair Nell later identified to me as the American owners of the horse called Flokati . |
| 22 | I may now have an inkling of what has happened to me over the last few years ; I may have lined up a few suspects , even tentatively put my finger on ‘ who done it ’ ; I may have my own private detectives working alongside the regular police , and we may have made an arrest or two , but the file has not been closed . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | I spent two hours responding to questions put to me by the Select Committee only a fortnight or so ago . |
| 25 | Any representations which you may have on the proposal should be sent to me within the next 10 days . |
| 26 | Harold Wilson had complained to me about the continuing hostility of the press towards him and wanted to know how to put it right . |
| 27 | As slim as a reed and as shy as a bird with the eyes of a gazelle , were all the aspects of beauty once described to me by the Youngest Son as most desirable in a woman . |
| 28 | For the first time I had an opportunity of seeing Barbara at work in detailed negotiations , and whatever small credit attached to me for the major idea , the scale and ingenuity that she expended on the detail and in making it possible to arrive at a suitable settlement was beyond praise . |