Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] me [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She stands before me solid as a rivet . |
| 2 | What matters to me most is the way I conduct myself . ’ |
| 3 | She looks at me incredulous that I can be so stupid . |
| 4 | The policeman knows OK and tells me , but he looks at me funny all the time . |
| 5 | ’ You know , ’ she said , ’ I can tell two things from the way everybody looks at me this morning . |
| 6 | TEARDROP EXPLODES Vox Teardrop & Phantom XII Looking cool is something that rarely happens to me these days , but strapping on either of these reissued Vox guitars it 's hard to tell if it 's grey hairs or ice … |
| 7 | I see a man up on the hill , but when as the minutes pass he does not move it occurs to me that what I am looking at must be a stone . |
| 8 | It occurs to me that ‘ mail order coffin supply ’ might be a suitable avenue to explore . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ It occurs to me that , before returning the animals to the land again , a trace could be put inside each animal . |
| 10 | that closes round me this year . |
| 11 | Perhaps the hon. Member for Cardiff , North agrees with me that , although one knows what the problem is and the damage that it is causing , it is very difficult to get anything done about it . |
| 12 | It sounds to me illegal to even try to touch somebody 's future . ’ |
| 13 | But it appears to me that , on the face of this document , there is no intention shown so to limit its effect , and that it is framed in the widest possible terms so as to cover , not only this particular debt , but all other claims by the bank in connection with the Professional and Trades Papers Ltd. , for it is admitted that the foundation of the judgment was the guarantee , and at the time this document was drawn up there was this joint liability on the judgment to the extent of £6,000 . |
| 14 | It appears to me that default in the sense of breach of duty must persist after the act or neglect until the damage is suffered . |
| 15 | VISCOUNT SIMONDS ( dissenting ) : It appears to me that , in order to comply with the provisions of section 8 and thus obtain its protection , there are three relevant conditions to be satisfied by the manufacturer of an article which would otherwise be an infringement of copyright . |
| 16 | said : ‘ It appears to me that , when the plaintiffs demanded payment of their debt , and in consequence of that application the defendant agreed to give certain security , although there was no promise on the part of the plaintiffs to abstain for any certain time from suing for the debt , the effect was , that the plaintiffs did in effect give , and the defendant received , the benefit of some degree of forbearance ; not indeed , for any definite time but , at all events , some extent of forbearance . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ If A delivers goods to B on sale or return and B having received them immediately delivers them to C on sale or return , the reasonable time in the one case must , I think , be co-extensive with that in the other case and if that reasonable time elapses and C brings back the goods to B and B takes them back to A , everybody is acting within his rights , and it appears to me that property never passes … if under like circumstances A delivers goods to B and B delivers them to C in each case on sale or return and the reasonable time be , let us say , 14 days , and C after four days sells the goods or elects to buy the goods , I think property will have passed , because C will have done an act which renders it impossible for B to return the goods to A. ’ |
| 18 | But that we become committed to it as the way to save the country and the peace appears to me full of dangers . ’ |
| 19 | Therefore it appears to me clear that a corporation at common law may maintain an action for a libel by which its property is injured . |
| 20 | Therefore it appears to me clear that a corporation at common law may maintain an action for a libel by which its property is injured . |
| 21 | In the present case , it appears to me apt to describe the changing of the lock at 195 , Burnt Oak Broadway as " an idle ceremony . " |
| 22 | ‘ It seems to me appropriate and just , ’ went on Miss Fergusson , ‘ that the first traveller to ascend the mountain upon which the Ark rested should bear the name of an animal . |
| 23 | Er we 're going to er get it drafted up and er we have some money in the , we have some money in our budget , for a gift , and it seems to me appropriate erm that the gift that we might make to Cheskevod is the s trading charter which we can get for the money that we 've budgeted er written by a calligrapher who I 've already contacted , who said that they can do it erm well , for that sort of price , in both English and Czech . |
| 24 | It seems to me appropriate and indeed perhaps essential that one should offer a brief biographical sketch of Proust on an occasion like this , but I shall try to avoid the unbalance of which I 've spoken , by at least relating the biography to the circumstances in which the novel was written , and I shall in any case spend the major part of the time that remains on an examination of the novel itself . |
| 25 | Without deciding the point , it seems to me arguable that , on the taxpayer 's argument , such loss or part of it would be an expense incurred by the school in providing the concessionary places . |
| 26 | Forgive me but it seems to me strange that a lady such as you … how shall I say … should stay in a pensione . |
| 27 | Building and sculptures certainly underwent repairs in antiquity ; but a theory that the present order of the metopes is due to a rearrangement before Pausanias 's time , the six Peloponnesian labours having been originally together on the west , the others on the east , seems to me unnecessary ; indeed certainly wrong , since I find a stylistic distinction between the two ends as they are which cuts across the geographical division . |
| 28 | As Dr J. A. Glover put it , ‘ though I fear the findings would be disquieting it seems to me wiser for the Board itself to discover and publish the true position rather than that others should do so ’ . |
| 29 | That seems to me outstanding work . " |
| 30 | He said : ‘ It seems to me that business could not function properly if such information could not be kept confidential . ’ |