Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] me the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ Erin pronounced on me the Draoicht Tinneas Siorai . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | And then he described to me the first time he and Montaine had happened upon it . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 6 | You drove past me the other day when I drov , was it you ? |
| 7 | He came with me the whole way of my round south of the Court . |
| 8 | Here is the verse and chorus which appealed to me the most . |
| 9 | ‘ To be sure , the lad 's name is Gabriel , and he came to me the very day I was needing an angel . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | This seemed to me the greatest achievement of the afternoon ; some people do n't even learn to think for themselves at university . |
| 12 | Apart from this minor eccentricity — and I knew old people often became eccentric — she seemed to me the same as she had always been : vague in practical matters but sharp-witted enough in other ways , and eager to talk about what was happening in the world . |
| 13 | The chapel seemed to me the focal point of our small , humble community . |
| 14 | His daughter fed him on tins of baby food , which again confirmed for me the sour joke of existence and the particular contemptibility of this old man . |
| 15 | ‘ See , ’ said Renwick pointing to his balding pate , ‘ that 's what happened to me the last time I did n't stop ! ’ |
| 16 | Of course , he does not care a rap whether it is true or not — but he is dreadfully afraid that by prematurely espousing it he might lose some subscribers , though he acknowledged to me the other day he thought it would be generally accepted before long . ’ |
| 17 | But George was a born Canadian and knew no more about China than I did ; he shared with me the wish and determination to visit China , which seemed to us to be a land of fabulous culture . |
| 18 | When , as a teenager , I read D. H. Lawrence 's poem ‘ The Tortoise ’ , the line ‘ O why are we crucified into sex at all ? 'seemed to me the most basic and profound of all existential cries . |
| 19 | I dare not ask directly what is the precise matter but I see in Mr Browning 's eyes an anxiety deeper than usual and he confessed to me the other day that he fears there may be water on the lung . |
| 20 | He urged on me the need to embark on a full-sized book , and to send him a synopsis as soon as possible . |
| 21 | He hinted to me the week before the event that he would n't mind a rest one day and I thought about that and thought about it again when we got to The Belfry . |
| 22 | It died for me the moment I found Mason in her bed . ’ |
| 23 | She was immediately recognisable , though she 'd had the scarf on as she sped past me the only other time I 'd seen her . |
| 24 | Hardly had I uttered the word — or the phrase signifying it — than I felt within me the need to become what I had been accused of being … . |
| 25 | I clutched to me the note I had written to Sylvia Grey . |
| 26 | They stood and stared at me the man with a vague anger , it seemed , the girl expressionlessly . |
| 27 | It did to me the first time we stayed . |
| 28 | ‘ Yes , Martha 's mother , Susan Sowerby , spoke to me the other day . |
| 29 | ‘ Later , my mother told me of her terrible foreboding that she had about me the day we made that first daylight raid on Berlin . |
| 30 | ‘ The Lord said to me the day before , ‘ You 're not going to make it out of your heat tomorrow ’ . |