Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] me [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was due to attend a meeting with several other women whom I knew and felt in sympathy with , and when I arrived there , the weight of my unhappiness just rolled off me like an unwanted burden . |
| 2 | The women who were working there looked at me in a kind curious way at first and then took me for granted . |
| 3 | SIR — Your agricultural correspondent 's report on the goats of Snowdonia and their origins ( April 2 ) is less exciting than the folklore related to me as a small boy by a Welsh shepherd . |
| 4 | She lived at New Houses , and was related to me in a mixed up kind of way — her father and my grandmother were cousins , but what that made me to Miss Bayles I can not imagine ! |
| 5 | Kinsmen , in this sense , are related to me in a special private way . |
| 6 | The above account was written to me in a long , beautifully typed letter . |
| 7 | I am concerned and I have mentioned briefly to Mr erm something which was er said to me by a local resident who 've read the paper this morning that British Rail are gon na start using their car parks to hold er car boot sales . |
| 8 | I have already described the tremendous impression that Hydén 's experiments — in which he measured increases in RNA and protein synthesis in tiny cellular regions from the brains of rats trained to balance on wires to reach for food — made on me as a young post-doc . |
| 9 | ‘ After the defeat at Bramall Lane they had the biggest hammering they 've had off me for a long time . |
| 10 | I once had to have the gnomic response of one respected editor of a major journal interpreted for me by a senior colleague . |
| 11 | ‘ It was told to me by a black guy : ‘ What 's black with red stripes ? |
| 12 | The opening of the Scherzo sounds remarkably like the twittering of birds in the trees , something I first noticed when it was played to me on an 1820s Graaf piano similar to the one owned by Schubert . |
| 13 | One hundred and twenty five years on , we know a lot more about animals and plants than Darwin did , and still not a single case is known to me of a complex organ that could not have been formed by numerous successive slight modifications . |
| 14 | These words were spoken to me with a strong American accent . |
| 15 | Keane , who is being pursued by Liverpool , Manchester United , Arsenal and Blackburn , admitted : ‘ Forest have spoken to me about a long-term contract , but I do n't want to get to the point where I am arguing over details and money . |
| 16 | I am sitting now in an arbour of rust-coloured bougainvillaea drinking lukewarm , weak coffee , brought to me in a stainless steel pot by a waiter in a starched white uniform , thinking in an aimless way about this puzzle , when I see the waiter returning . |
| 17 | That , and the electric kettle , given to me by a good friend , are a great blessing . |
| 18 | It is not it was given to me by a nice gentleman from Napier College doing |
| 19 | Will the Secretary of State take this opportunity to confirm an answer recently given to me by a junior Minister — it is in Hansard , of course — to the effect that a large number of pensioners — nearly 40 per cent . |
| 20 | This recipe was given to me by a well-travelled customer on her return from the USA . |
| 21 | Mind you Chappie has made us all laugh at times , and Deane looks as limited to me in a different way . |
| 22 | These were the seductive amusements of my youth : they have clung to me through a long life , and they are now the solace of my old age . ’ |
| 23 | She sat quite still and her eyes were fixed on me with a curious , dark look of sympathy mixed with something else . |
| 24 | I believe that the lessons learnt from my first five years of trial and error could have been imparted to me in a few days by any half-decent panner . |
| 25 | I had seen him once before when he had waved to me from an upper window and I had waved back . |
| 26 | ‘ She has worked for me for a long time . |
| 27 | I mean , if I get any more songs submitted to me with a manky old Soul II Soul drum beat on them , I 'll be very angry indeed . |
| 28 | A part time post was created for me at a busy hospital 40 miles from home , and the arrangement worked very well . |
| 29 | Although I am sure that these remarks will apply to all constituencies in the north of Ireland , I can judge only what is happening in the one that I know best , which is my own , where 3,344 houses have been deemed ’ unfit ’ , as the Minister confirmed to me in a written answer in 1988 . |
| 30 | The third report I know of came from the Johannesburg Sunday Times of 14 February , 1982 , and was sent to me by a medical colleague . |