Example sentences of "[noun sg] [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 | Your heart fits me like a glove . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | My one pound , seventeen shillings had been put together over a number of years by saving money given me on my birthdays by relatives . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . |
| 9 | In which case forgive me for writing as I have done . |
| 10 | THIS OPPORTUNITY PROVIDED ME WITH A WELCOME BREAK FROM THE PURELY BOTANICAL WORK TO WHICH I WAS ACCUSTOMED . |
| 11 | Although the first step can be steroid injections , my GP referred me for surgery at Wanstead Hospital , south London . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The central figure points me to a single chair , placed opposite . |
| 15 | My geraniums ( pelargoniums if you must ) are making a brave show at last in spite of one or two early frosts , and I am delighted that a tiny sprig of gentian given me by a neighbour has four vivid blue flowers . |
| 16 | I was on my way to Glen Nevis with enough gear to see me through the night . |
| 17 | Thinking of Bonanza got me on trying to figure his reaction if Vecchi got hooked for the Mahoney killing . |
| 18 | With your track record I do n't know how you have the nerve to lecture me on commitment . ’ |
| 19 | I do n't know why my search drew me to that part of the house , except that Curtis was the only soul in it other than myself and Leon . |
| 20 | Sure enough , a high-pitched peeping drew me to the stable , and there on the floor was the hen with one minute black puff-ball of a chick . |
| 21 | A colleague from Christian Aid phoned me from Addis Ababa last night and he reported what had happened in the Red Sea port of Assab on Saturday which was when 15 trucks and trailers were loaded each with 22 tons of U N grain and there was a little ceremony as they left at 12 noon for Desai . |
| 22 | Mummy touch me on my arm and keep going on I 'm I 'm I 'm I 'm I 'm I 'm I 'm I 'm I 'm I 'm I 'm I 'm I 'm dreaming of a white white white white white white white white white white . |
| 23 | One of the problems that the college told me about is that school children are leaving school with more computer literacy than the university teachers , so university teachers are having to run hard simply to keep up with the people they are teaching . |
| 24 | ‘ I was very undecided when my agent told me about the offer … ’ |
| 25 | Some candidates for overseas study told me in all honesty that the acquisition of consumer durables , the modern-day trappings of success , was the main motivation for their efforts , although they also hoped to help the ‘ motherland ’ in the process . |
| 26 | One banking employee told me of the demise of her bank branch . |
| 27 | The President told me in person last night . |
| 28 | The thought of his short , strong , hairy body and his evil , cruel , wholly selfish mind filled me with horror . |
| 29 | ‘ I have also been to the Guildhall , ’ he mournfully concluded ‘ The mayor told me in no uncertain terms how displeased His Grace the Regent Duke of Lancaster is at our lack of progress . |
| 30 | One particular Easter , a beautiful day , I remember an overwhelming fear filling me with absolute terror as we stood outside the ticket office after returning from a journey . |