Example sentences of "[prep] me a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They call me that , she thought , when they are talking about me , for they talk about me a great deal even when I am there . |
| 2 | On my first administrative promotion in Buckinghamshire I encountered Geoff Link , for me a new colleague , but also a former teacher . |
| 3 | This is a copy of Countryd Top copy sent to OBITS Country Diary for Saturday December 9th Machynlleth : For me a frequent delight in many years of hill-walking in Wales has been to come upon that lively , eye-catching bird the wheatear which so loves to play hide and seek among the rocks . |
| 4 | A Country Diary : MACHYNLLETH : For me a frequent delight in many years of hill-walking in Wales has been to come upon that lively , eye-catching bird the wheatear which so loves to play hide and seek among the rocks . |
| 5 | Perhaps sex had become for me a habit-forming drug . |
| 6 | When some years ago I decided to pay the Life Governor 's subscription the expense was for me a serious cost but was willing to pay it to ensure that I should continue to enjoy the privileges without having to worry about future subscriptions when I had retired from salaried work . |
| 7 | This became for me a serious piece of policy . |
| 8 | ‘ I do have an electric razor , but for me a serious shave is a wet one . |
| 9 | You see , for me a good game of football involves lots of intricate passing . |
| 10 | They must have been — it meant for me a round journey of more than eighty miles just for a home fixture . |
| 11 | New breed : from The Blue Lily Strip Search : Cleveland Art Gallery , Middlesbrough COMICS may be for me a closed book . |
| 12 | Surrounded as I was by supremely negative images of homosexuality such as ‘ the man in the dirty mac living out a lonely old age in a filthy garret ’ , I still felt that there was for me a clear choice between expressing or repressing my homosexual desire . |
| 13 | Beyond and above the jolt to the national memory , there was for me a special exhumation of the past . |
| 14 | There remains for me a disturbing element about In Memoriam notices . |
| 15 | Anyway , for her the tree — for me a different penalty . |
| 16 | Gently , making fun of me a little bit , bringing me back to earth . |
| 17 | I had with me a good friend who knows the region well — he lives there — and he was following our route on a map . |
| 18 | This is not with me a photographic thing . |
| 19 | I used to believe in the Protestant work ethic , in the virtue of a regular twelve-hour working day , deluding myself that this was the only way to achieve excellent business results , kidding myself that I actually enjoyed going home exhausted on Friday evening , taking with me a whole bundle of weekend paperwork . |
| 20 | Under me a young man 's blood |
| 21 | In the strictness of my own father 's wisdom , he instilled into me a deep respect for the opposite sex , so that there was no physical play or caress with any women until after I had married my wife . |
| 22 | As an example , I have before me a well-produced booklet , interestingly and appropriately written , which confounds the young reader with factual details about Hindu mythology and customs . |
| 23 | At the auberge , they set before me a beautiful soup with dumplings in it , followed by a great white sausage on a small alp of potato and onion-rings . |
| 24 | Across the aisle from me a young boy is telling his mother that he does n't like it . |
| 25 | I find in me A strange compulsion to direct all men E'en to the way they stand and walk or move . |
| 26 | Create in me a pure heart , O God |
| 27 | All of them were English-born and helped to imbue in me a loyal appreciation of the Royal Family . |
| 28 | It 's as if somewhere in me a certain amount of good-will and kindness is manufactured every day ; and it must come out . |
| 29 | I think they sensed in me a possible convert to their beliefs , merely because I was curious , or perhaps they genuinely liked me — I do n't know . |
| 30 | It was an immediate transformation of my personal and social outlook and it started in me a new sort of excitement — it was as though you 'd been shot full of adrenalin . |