Example sentences of "[v-ing] me [prep] a [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 | 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 . |
| 5 | Now you 'd better start turning me into a space-station commander . ’ |
| 6 | She 's turning me into a wild animal . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Do n't miss out the l or you 'll start turning me into a Parisian grocer . |
| 9 | Fixing me with a beady eye as soon as I had sat down , she leaned over to damn me with faint praise . |
| 10 | ‘ You look older , my friend , ’ Surkov said , fixing me with a compassionate gaze . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ I was wondering , ’ Brassard confided-to his wine glass , ‘ whether you 'd be interested in joining me in a new agency . |
| 15 | He epitomises the polite , friendly grandfather figure , all six foot three of him greeting me with a firm handshake . |
| 16 | Mackie looked pale but in charge of things , greeting me with a sisterly kiss . |
| 17 | You must stop treating me like a naughty girlfriend , for I am neither the one nor the other . |
| 18 | She wrote in the card : ‘ Thanks for treating me like a human being . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ You 're asking me for a snap judgement , Miss Levington ? ’ |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | When I turned to close the door behind me she was watching me with a faint smile . |
| 23 | After that she said nothing for a while , only sat watching me in a broody way . |
| 24 | statistically , I get far more phone calls from record companies , lawyers and very occasionally from publishers telling me about a new act they have just signed . |
| 25 | Soon she began telling me of a tasteless fellow-passenger of hers who , at this time the day before , had kept his nose buried in Doctor Zhivago while they flew in exquisite weather over the Gulf of Corinth . |
| 26 | ‘ She just dropped dead of a brain tumour at the age of thirty , leaving me with a ten-year-old girl . |
| 27 | He was still confronting me in a pugnacious attitude , but at this he took a step back . |
| 28 | They were kicking me and hitting me with a big bar . |
| 29 | Benjamin rose and , slipping his arm through mine , led me back to the garden , teasing me into a good mood as he explained how he had found Waldegrave drunk as a lord and insensible as a rock in a corner of his opulent chapel . |
| 30 | All this time he was propelling me into a little room near the front door , and I was absolutely stiff with fright . |