Example sentences of "was [verb] [prep] me [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile , Denis and I provided the background music for this particular ‘ pack in the box ’ and much hissing was heard from me in the interval into the ear of our Company Manager Jeremy Adams . |
| 2 | I 'm glad you mentioned that cos it was given to me by the wife of the steeplechase handicap a very important man today cos for more than |
| 3 | I refer to a parliamentary answer that was given to me by the Under-Secretary of State for Employment , the hon. Member for Mid-Worcestershire ( Mr. Forth ) . |
| 4 | But , we know that April was a low figure , we also know that July and August are low a figure which comes out from this graph and was given to me by the director yesterday , is a genuine average which is turning out to be between a hundred and a hundred and ten placements per month twelve hundred to fourteen hundred placements per year a thr over a three year average residency period three thousand six hundred to four thousand two hundred placements in residential care , where then is the real problem . |
| 5 | ‘ It was assigned to me by the press , a breed which in my experience cares little for such irrelevancies as accuracy . ’ |
| 6 | Er it was explained to me on the phone . |
| 7 | The impact was so great that the effect of it was to remain with me in the months ahead and give me strength when I most needed it . |
| 8 | Diamond Head was leaping at me from the right . |
| 9 | " Well , mother explained to me what was expected of me in the marriage bed and it sounded so terrifying . |
| 10 | I could do what was expected of me by the crowd , or I could do what he trusted me to do . |
| 11 | I could tell that my father was looking at me from the other end of the table , swilling his juice round in his glass and staring at my head as I bent over my plate . |
| 12 | Little did I imagine that such a move was destined for me within the next two years . |
| 13 | What occurred after I left was related to me by the men of the village , when I paid the district a second visit some months later . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Before I knew it , she was lying beside me in the small white tent . |
| 16 | I think about Mr Jackson and I get a sort of uncomfortable feeling when I remember he was waiting for me at the house and I did n't come back . |
| 17 | When I got back to the attic , Jean-Claude was waiting for me at the top of the stairs . |
| 18 | When I went into town to order my new clothes , Mr Pumblechook was waiting for me at the door of his shop . |
| 19 | This time he was waiting for me at the table . |
| 20 | Jekyll 's servant had received by the same post a letter similar to mine , and he was waiting for me with the locksmith . |
| 21 | The hill that was waiting for me across the next two miles of nothingness was typical of those I had climbed that day — no more than a hundred feet high , with a gradual slope . |
| 22 | The Management was waiting for me in the lounge of his magnificent suite . |
| 23 | The wench was waiting for me in the street . |
| 24 | At the time tomato purée for the restaurant was preserved in champagne bottles which were then sterilised — a method which was demonstrated to me by the cook at a pensione in Anacapri where I stayed during the summer of 1952 , and which I described in Italian Food . |
| 25 | Ashley was glaring at me over the candle flame the way a hawk must glare at a field mouse the instant before it parts mouse from field forever . |
| 26 | Another introduction to politics was provided for me in the person of Randolph Churchill . |
| 27 | ‘ Thankfully I 've forgotten it all now and I have to look at it as something that was flattering to me at the time . |
| 28 | I 'm very sorry chairman , er Mr n and I were checking er a point in response to a question that was asked to me during the break . |
| 29 | So here she was sitting beside me on the window-seat , shut in between a heavy curtain and a window . |
| 30 | He was sitting beside me in the jump seat or that generally occupied by a second pilot because in those days there were no flight engineers on twin-engined aircraft . |