Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] me [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their father who had started the business , although retired , was still usually to be found there , hovering in the background , his full white beard reminding me of Father Christmas . |
| 2 | I loved it when a whole pile of notes met me in the morning and I did not surface till lunchtime . |
| 3 | Your heart fits me like a glove . |
| 4 | YOU recently mentioned con tricks well , I was waiting at Lime Street Station for my mother when a well-dressed man with a briefcase asked me for £1 . |
| 5 | Griffin , to exemplify this , reports a signing sequence by Patterson 's Koko : ‘ Please milk please me like drink apple bottle ’ , and one from Nim , ‘ Give orange me eat orange give me eat orange give me you ’ ( 1984 : 200 ) . |
| 6 | Harvey led me to a room which he unlocked with a key . |
| 7 | But , alas , one 's head must be permitted to rule , and so I will say only this : a little house where I may be safe , with an income to enable me at least to enjoy the comforts of life , if not its luxuries . |
| 8 | Later in my life — ça sera pour un autre jour — birds led me into a very unusual experience . |
| 9 | My one pound , seventeen shillings had been put together over a number of years by saving money given me on my birthdays by relatives . |
| 10 | Alison led me through the hall into the kitchen , a sprawling space with a flagstone floor dominated by a huge table , a Welsh dresser and rows of large cupboards . |
| 11 | Asked us ower fur drinks and when we got there — I mean Ah 'd had a bath , splashed on some of the Givenchy for Gentlemen that Isabel got me for ma Christmas and got into ma designer tracksuit just to be casual like … |
| 12 | A temporary assistant lecturer 's post was available in my Department at U.C.L. Apparently , my Head of Department , , was happy to appoint me , but before the decision was made , he offered his new professorial colleague , , an opportunity to interview me for the job . |
| 13 | I must have said that several times already because Ma fixed me with a glittering stare and exclaimed , ‘ If you say that word once more , Andrew , just once more , I 'll send you to the Science Museum again … with Annabel . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I have discovered that the black people I have been working with in the inner cities proposed me for the award . |
| 15 | Nour drew me as an English Miss : Ingleesy , prim , uneducated , unsophisticated . |
| 16 | The D G joins me in wishing you every success in your future career . |
| 17 | For as long as it took me to get out of range , several birds used me for bombing practice , coming so close on occasions that ducking was a necessity rather than a flamboyant gesture . |
| 18 | On the day before de Macon sailed on his second voyage , the Ralembergs invited me to a formal supper . |
| 19 | ‘ I think all the things that I initially tried to recruit carers were n't successful — I went to talk to vicars and community centres and the job centre , and wherever — none of these provided me with … well one vicar provided me with somebody . |
| 20 | Ezra provided me with a standard ; and gingered me into an attempt to train towards it . |
| 21 | In which case forgive me for writing as I have done . |
| 22 | He explains : ‘ This is because Alex Ferguson helped me on my way in football when I was 14 years old , and taught me most of the things I took with me from Aberdeen . ’ |
| 23 | GEORGE HERRINGSHAW/ASP Bryan Gunn : ‘ Alex Ferguson helped me on my way in football when I was 14 years old , and taught me most of the things I took with me from Aberdeen ’ |
| 24 | THIS OPPORTUNITY PROVIDED ME WITH A WELCOME BREAK FROM THE PURELY BOTANICAL WORK TO WHICH I WAS ACCUSTOMED . |
| 25 | Although the first step can be steroid injections , my GP referred me for surgery at Wanstead Hospital , south London . |
| 26 | But even people who are concerned about me say things which seem to be complimentary ; a teacher remarks that I have become ‘ a sylph ’ lately , Mum defends me to my grandma as ‘ naturally slender ’ , and Dad makes jokes about my skinny legs — reassuring jokes , the sort he used to make when I was little , before I became ‘ a young woman ’ and embarrassing to him . |
| 27 | Two weeks later , to my horror , Mr Taylor stopped me in the corridor and asked me if I 'd consider doing another talk — to another class . |
| 28 | Within a day the vet phoned me with the news that the dog had two intact testicles ( a matter I 'd hardly been musing upon ) and was suffering from a bit of diarrhoea — but had been put on a milk diet which would soon clear it up . |
| 29 | Bob and I are progressing as a piano/clarsach duo , and of course some of the accompaniments to his songs tax me to the limit , or have to be vetoed altogether . |
| 30 | It 's just great to have Marie touching me like this . |