Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [verb] me [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ On a personal note , in 1991 when the Board nominated me and the shareholders elected me to the chairmanship , I indicated that I would serve in this capacity for two years and oversee the rationalisation and turnaround of the Waterford and Wedgwood businesses . |
| 2 | One of the lads asked me at a dance how I had earned my living before I had got married . |
| 3 | The words cut me like a sword . |
| 4 | ‘ The Open College of the Arts encouraged me to a course in music using electronic keyboards and things took off after that . ’ |
| 5 | The dogs followed me along the back passage . |
| 6 | One of the officers showed me into the aeroplane and himself sat down in the pilot 's seat . |
| 7 | Only once have the gods assaulted me in the guise of another person . |
| 8 | Ellen had gone to her one-room apartment in town while Thessy was reading his Bible in the main-cabin , so I heated myself some baked beans in Wavebreaker 's microwave , spread them on buttered toast , soaked them in brown sauce , then ate a morose supper on deck until the bugs drove me to the screened sanctuary of the staterooms below . |
| 9 | When I had the baby , Stephen , the screws left me in the outside hospital but they took my clothes . |
| 10 | Willie pulls himself up the stairs reminding me of an elderly praying mantis . |
| 11 | The teachers treat me as an adult , but I 've always been very mature for my age . |
| 12 | The wind screaming and the rain lashing on the windows sent me into a reverie . |
| 13 | The friends accompany me to the jetty . |
| 14 | My disagreeable reaction to the photos reminded me of the way I — and a host of others — responded to the last major American exhibition of Koons ' work two years ago . |
| 15 | A serjeant-at-arms , wearing the royal arms of France on his tabard , gestured to the archers to hoist me into the saddle of a horse whose reins he held . |
| 16 | One of the escorts slapped me across the mouth . |
| 17 | He 's the man I was fighting when the soldiers found me on the marshes , Pip . |
| 18 | One of the sailors hit me with a piece of gun cable , heavy , wire-armoured cable with a knot on one end . |