Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] me the " in BNC.

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1 I mean I 'm I mean for me the issues is avoiding guilt tripping them , but at the same time erm I want them to know erm that they are real children who are being really affected and hurt and damaged and losing their parents as a result of this war , and that is a hurtful thing to know .
2 More than any other sound , more even than the grunting roar of a lion , their howling evokes for me the African night .
3 My mother soon began to drum into me the notion that I was different because of my eyesight , and therefore that I should not expect too much out of life .
4 So while his real need for me had something to do with prac-ticalities , he reinforced in me the sense that his need had something to do with his sister 's death .
5 However , my Presidency has impressed upon me the Sea-Change in recent years of governmental policy as it affects University and College finances .
6 A year later , on Tuesday , 13 April 1773 , Boswell ‘ again solicited him to communicate to me the particulars of his early life .
7 ‘ Erin pronounced on me the Draoicht Tinneas Siorai .
8 He described to me the glen in a storm — the darkness that mantles it , the springing into life of untold hosts of runlets , the careering in mad fury of the burns as they break through and tower above the channel wherein they are wont to flow ; the showers , the careering of the clouds , the thunderings and the lightning-flashings , and the artillery of the winds , as the air-gusts meet the peaks and explode in the hollows of the darksome corries .
9 And then he described to me the first time he and Montaine had happened upon it .
10 Please confirm your acceptance of this post by signing and returning to me the docketed copy of this letter .
11 The Minister of State , my right hon. Friend the Member for Oxford , West and Abingdon ( Mr. Patten ) , was on the Front Bench yesterday and has reported to me the content of the ten-minute Bill and the vote .
12 ‘ Forgive me if I seem to be playing the amateur sleuth once again , but something else occurred to me the other day , which might or might not be of interest to you . ’
13 As he opens the door the lid snaps up and as he looks at me the social dimension locks me in its perspective .
14 His poem exemplifies for me the many wonders and the brilliant light of the transcendent ; and also the unity of our soul as it basks in the warmth of that light .
15 You drove past me the other day when I drov , was it you ?
16 Only later , I told the now somewhat quivering Principal , only later , when Rosa had gone , did it come to mind that one or two of the other girls had made of me the same enquiry over the past twelve months .
17 ‘ He did n't try to flirt with me the whole time , ’ she defended , and half wished then that she had n't said anything about lunchtime .
18 I determined that it should not happen again and it seemed impossible that it should for this time I should carry with me the foundation of happiness which I had found behind the wire .
19 He came with me the whole way of my round south of the Court .
20 I did understand however that my oath to preserve the constitution to the best of my ability imposed upon me the duty of that nation of which the constitution is the organic law .
21 Then they clapped me on the back with too many hands , thrust upon me the plastiform wafer that confirmed payment of the rest of my fee , and proclaimed that they would create a song for the festival in praise of ’ the , most safe and reliable Delmore Curb , master courier ’ .
22 Here is the verse and chorus which appealed to me the most .
23 ‘ To be sure , the lad 's name is Gabriel , and he came to me the very day I was needing an angel .
24 The gesture revealed nothing of that woman 's essence , one could say rather that the woman revealed to me the charm of a gesture .
25 The following case study is unusual because Charlotte ( not her real name ) had not revealed to me the actual reason why she felt the need for aromatherapy .
26 However , this job revealed to me the big , wide , illegal world of the homosexual .
27 That God will give me a clear vision for the future and reveal to me the next step after DTS .
28 Reveal to me the great secret .
29 Written as a result of attending a Labour Party conference , it was the product of shock at what then seemed to me the amount of time and energy politicians and journalists spent chasing each other 's tails on such occasions .
30 This seemed to me the greatest achievement of the afternoon ; some people do n't even learn to think for themselves at university .
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