Example sentences of "[prep] me [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Since this campaign began , not a day has passed without them trying to spin some story or other about me to the local paper . |
| 2 | When I get out of my train at Victoria and look about me at the other two hundred — mostly strangers , not least so those whose names as early schoolfellows dawn on me when they disappeared , — I sometimes think that one or two of us ought to speak out instead of just voting and making a remark in the complaint book once or twice a year and writing to a newspaper less often . |
| 3 | Fortunately I do n't have to do the really dangerous stuff , buteven backstage in the wings I did have a few things falling about me on the last day in Manchester . |
| 4 | Ann , would you be able to have Sally for me on the first of May ? |
| 5 | He was good enough to organize a complimentary flight for me on the Imperial Airways ' flying boat which plied the sea and air routes between Long Island Sound and Bermuda several times each week . |
| 6 | Nine till one for me on the late show Adrian . |
| 7 | Please reserve a place for me on the POTENTIAL TEACHERS DAY on Saturday 8th March , for which I enclose the fee of £5.00 . |
| 8 | For me at the fair ? |
| 9 | Erm and if it 's not it 's er I 'm not going to deny the fact that some people say you know this has been good for me for the last eighteen months erm I 'm er I 'm used to being self employed I 'm going to stay that way but I 'm looking at other avenues . |
| 10 | Joe made room for me with the same amount of good grace he might have afforded an enemy invading his castle and we sat for a few minutes without speaking , inspecting the view . |
| 11 | Anyway , I 'm only being friendly with Dr Rafaelo so that he 'll arrange a meeting for me with the handsome Miguelito . |
| 12 | I was saying the single biggest difference for me between the two sides has A been the passing but also the movement . |
| 13 | Particular highlights for me over the last year have included : |
| 14 | The hill that was waiting for me across the next two miles of nothingness was typical of those I had climbed that day — no more than a hundred feet high , with a gradual slope . |
| 15 | It was for me like the young people out there doing their Licenza Classica . |
| 16 | She was good at sewing , and managed to make some clothes for me in the thinnest material available . |
| 17 | He thinks there 's a part for me in the new play at the Queen 's . ’ |
| 18 | You have always shown your love for me in the best way you knew how . |
| 19 | Hopefully it will do the same for me in the Welsh mountains , and enable me to walk onto specific grid bearings and find some ancient markers . |
| 20 | The violence of this transition became more cushioned for me in the mid-seventies , when we built our bamboo and coconut-wood home in the highlands of Bali , which for seven years now has served us as a sort of decompression chamber between the two worlds . |
| 21 | When your income is not much above five or six pounds a week , as it was for me in the seventies , even a tin of dog food is out of the question . |
| 22 | Little did I imagine that such a move was destined for me within the next two years . |
| 23 | My father looked after me on the long journey home , and sat with me for every minute . |
| 24 | The Frenchman sat opposite me at the large farmhouse table chatting away for all he was worth and after the meal he puffed away at his pipe as if he had n't a care in the world . |
| 25 | I saw a group walking towards me through the ashen darkness . |
| 26 | It is rushing towards me over the uneven ground . |
| 27 | The sun crept towards me over the red tiles . |
| 28 | I looked towards the chateau entrance and saw Queen Poison , dreadful as an army in battle array , sweep towards me across the lowered drawbridge , arms extended as if she wished to clasp me to her deceitful bosom . |
| 29 | Le Maître always behaves towards me with the utmost propriety , whatever people may be saying to the contrary . ’ |
| 30 | All in all it was with a feeling of indescribable joy that on the sixth day I saw a familiar figure coming towards me among the prompt arrivals . |