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

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1 My thanks to David Bogie , studio manager and Fish for their time and patience — and for allowing me to visit the Funny Farm .
2 I am most grateful to her for allowing me to use this remarkable case study of John .
3 " Thank you for the tea — and thank you for allowing me to join your table . "
4 I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Basildon ( Mr. Amess ) for allowing me to say a few words on a matter that is so important to my constituents and to his .
5 Well anyway Mr Chatfield , thank you very much for allowing me to ask
6 I knew that they would be criticized by the Fontanellatesi for allowing me to go away and live in a distant city among thousands of Allied soldiers .
7 ‘ Thank you for allowing me to go through his papers . ’
8 Bless 'em all thank you as well to Radio Nottingham for allowing me to come in as part of my successful bid for Money Spinner .
9 Thank you very much for allowing me to come .
10 In compiling this book I am extremely grateful to Butterworth & Co Ltd for allowing me to reproduce precedents and text from Volume 22 of the Encyclopaedia of Forms & Precedents ( 5th edn ) .
11 ‘ Thank you so much , ’ she said sarcastically , ‘ for allowing me to eat with such revered company , but I 'm tired now .
12 I am grateful to the hon. Member for Beaconsfield ( Mr. Smith ) for allowing me to intervene briefly in this debate .
13 I am much indebted to the Commission staff , in particular to Mr Collin Bowen , for allowing me to show plans in advance of publication of this , and of the other sites in the county .
14 I would also like to thank the Nature Conservancy Council 's Upland Vegetation Survey and Andrew Currie for allowing me to quote from their unpublished reports .
15 I am particularly indebted to Keith Bennett and Julie Fossitt for allowing me to quote their unpublished results from Loch Lang ; to Hilary Birks and Keith Bennett for reading the manuscript ; and to Hilary Birks for word-processing .
16 I am grateful to the right hon. Member for Selby for allowing me to quote from the letter .
17 I am grateful to the hon. Member for Leyton ( Mr. Cohen ) for allowing me to speak in this valuable debate .
18 Er thank you Chairman for allowing me to speak as a non member , I am however , a er member of one of your representatives on the Luton Airport Consultative Committee .
19 Thank you , WOMAN , for helping me to take pride in myself again , by giving away a free lipstick and perfume recently .
20 Thank you Betty for helping me to win this award .
21 He wrote : ‘ Thanks for your hospitality over the past few weeks and for helping me see where I have gone wrong . ’
22 I only want you to know that I 'm very grateful to you for helping me become Joe 's apprentice . ’
23 The Parkinson 's Disease Society has been in touch with me , and I am grateful to its chief executive , Mrs. Mary Baker , both for information and for helping me understand the problems .
24 ‘ I told you , Murphy , that although I am immensely grateful to you for helping me to repair the shed to make a hen house and for finding me the things I need , these are my hens and I shall look after them .
25 Thanks to Francis Rudge for videoing me working !
26 Then he turned to me , apologising for keeping me waiting , and showed me in to his office .
27 A man I do not wish to write for wants me to go to Vientiane , where virgins are $10 a go , and a woman I do wish to write for says it would never work because she is emotionally involved with me .
28 Kenneth drove me here last Sunday after helping me to load the car with clothes , shoes , video recorder , sound equipment , books , photos , kettle , mug , hot-water-bottle ( never go anywhere without it ) and all the required paraphernalia of a season away from home .
29 It 's the least you can tell me after keeping me waiting for an hour ! ’
30 The doctor arrived and after examining me pronounced that I had some sort of mystery virus , and there was nothing he could do for me .
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