Example sentences of "[v-ing] me [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The shaft of the arrow protruding from my back occasionally knocked against something , bringing me to a gasping halt . |
| 2 | Undeterred he burst into song , serenading me in a loud baritone with Italian pop songs . |
| 3 | I would have liked to have gone to Venice , where there was a faculty of languages , or Bologna , where I could have read Economics and Commerce ; but the war was on , and the expense of keeping me in a distant town was beyond the means of my parents . |
| 4 | The point is that the inference which you give to it is that they 're not quite fit to be Governors , by comparison with others , and I 'd like to defend that because I can assure you that I have never ever nominated a Governor for a school who I have not thought would be advantageous to that Board of Governors to have as a member and that he will be he or she will be a contributor to that particular school , and I 've done it time and time and time again and indeed on occasions have had headmasters coming to me and thanking me for the particular person that I put in . |
| 5 | Anyway the second school favoured scarlet cross-overs , the lady in charge directing me to a local wool shop where I could buy the yarn and a ( hand knitting ) pattern . |
| 6 | Now you 'd better start turning me into a space-station commander . ’ |
| 7 | She 's turning me into a wild animal . |
| 8 | If a week of being looked after had gone such a fair way to turning me into a drivelling weakling , it was just as well I had n't let Dottie tempt me to any more of it . |
| 9 | Do n't miss out the l or you 'll start turning me into a Parisian grocer . |
| 10 | The moustached man opens his palm , presenting me with an old square of foil , streaked with dry runs of smack . |
| 11 | Fixing me with a beady eye as soon as I had sat down , she leaned over to damn me with faint praise . |
| 12 | ‘ You look older , my friend , ’ Surkov said , fixing me with a compassionate gaze . |
| 13 | Fixing me with an indignant eye , he scuttled off to the peonies . |
| 14 | The agendas for the above 3 meetings will be issued in due course , but it is not intended that the reports should be circulated again ; spare copies of the reports are available for members , by telephoning me at the undernoted extension . |
| 15 | Morning by morning in my regular reading , which at the time was in the Song of Songs , I heard the Lord calling me to a new stage in ministry . |
| 16 | There had been talk of sending me to a special school , but my family were not ready to accept such an open acknowledgment of my disability , and the excuse was again made about academic standards . |
| 17 | The US Department of Energy will be shocked to learn from this article that I am Britain 's man on the loss of fluid test ( LOFT ) project , because that agency is currently providing me with a handsome salary on the understanding that I am the US Department of Energy 's man on the selfsame project . |
| 18 | I am indebted to our Home Improvements Editor , David Holloway , for providing me with the following information relating to the 2.5 per cent VAT increase announced in the recent Budget . |
| 19 | I AM indebted to the Esperanto Centre in London for providing me with the following gem , under the heading ‘ Unfortunate Translations ’ . |
| 20 | Thanks for providing me with an excellent article for the summer edition of Cymru Wledig . |
| 21 | ‘ I was wondering , ’ Brassard confided-to his wine glass , ‘ whether you 'd be interested in joining me in a new agency . |
| 22 | He epitomises the polite , friendly grandfather figure , all six foot three of him greeting me with a firm handshake . |
| 23 | Mackie looked pale but in charge of things , greeting me with a sisterly kiss . |
| 24 | You must stop treating me like a naughty girlfriend , for I am neither the one nor the other . |
| 25 | She wrote in the card : ‘ Thanks for treating me like a human being . |
| 26 | What amazes me is how often they 'll say to me ‘ Thank you very much for treating me like a human being ’ because however drunk they are in the churchyard I always believe that you 're much more likely to get somewhere with somebody if you are polite and kind to them and treat them like a real human being , and you can get into all sorts of fascinating conversations with these people even when they are fairly drunk , because actually they are real human beings , they are n't awful people . |
| 27 | ‘ You 're asking me for a snap judgement , Miss Levington ? ’ |
| 28 | The big boys tried to make me feel at home by taking me to the greasy spoon for a pie but what did I care for food as the table rang with drug quips and acerbic one-liners about Danielle Dax from Gavin Martin , James Brown and Danny Kelly . |
| 29 | The drift of my rhetoric might seem to be taking me towards a traditional defence of literature , of the imagination , of creativity , of humane values in general . |
| 30 | ‘ Right , ’ she said , towing me into the tall bracken . |