Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] me [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Daphne not only welcomed me with open arms but to my surprise expressed delight at the thought of my occupying one of her spare rooms . |
| 2 | My salary was barely enough to keep me in sliced white and undies , never mind maintain Mrs Dennis Parsons in the style to which she had become accustomed . |
| 3 | Later , I managed to contact him and after a preliminary meeting , which lasted some thirteen hours , he was gracious enough to supply me with large-scale copies of maps of the area for me to be able to check his work — generosity indeed ! |
| 4 | Several people have been er kind enough to remind me as General Secretary , and other people , that we 're all expendable . |
| 5 | If that power was sufficient , the holy spirit , if that power was sufficient to raise Christ from the dead , you not think he 's able to exert that power in your life and in my life to make us live lives that are pleasing to God , of course it is so we do n't do it ourselves , just let me in closing mention one other thing , this relationship we have needs to be maintained , you know for any relationship to grow , one needs to spend time with the other person , I do n't give a lot of credence to the saying that absence makes the heart grow fonder , it does with somebody else , it 's true , it does not make it grow fonder of that person the person is you know who you , you heard this story so often , like particularly like going back during the last war , folk who were separated sometimes for , for , not just for months but for several years , there they were in concentration camps perhaps , in prisoner of war camps , separated for years , they come back home they 've got to get to know each other all over again you see that a relationship on a human level as well as in our relationship with God is dependent on , on association , it 's dependent on companionship , it 's dependent on spending time with the other person and in our relationship with Christ this is achieved by , by prayer , by knowing and understanding God 's word , by having fellowship with other Christians and fellowship with other Christians is not just meeting them and passing the time of day with them , oh that 's fellowship but it 's far more than that is required , there 's the fellowship in worship , we worship together , of course I can worship God at home of course I can do it , so can you do it and we , we should do it , but there 's that re , there 's that need , that requirement as God 's people we come together to worship him in a corporate act , in the sacraments , in , as we mentioned in , in earlier on in taking the bread and the wine and remembering the lords death , there 's a sense in which I can do it by myself |
| 6 | Fixing me with a beady eye as soon as I had sat down , she leaned over to damn me with faint praise . |
| 7 | Several readers have already contacted me regarding foul play and the role of the touch-judge . |
| 8 | You expect me to believe that the board just chose me at random ? |
| 9 | I know they do not hold me in high regard . |
| 10 | ‘ This did not endear me to certain people at BRM . |
| 11 | As a patient , I would like to think that the presence of a doctor 's name on the list would also offer me some sort of guarantee that he or she would not subject me to unnecessary or unjustifiably harmful treatment — whether that treatment be labelled alternative or mainstream , labels that serve only to confuse the issue . |
| 12 | I did n't really like the people at OUCA [ the Oxford University Conservative Association ] , they just struck me as spotty spods . ’ |
| 13 | Nicholas Blake , the poet C. Day Lewis , once told me with remembered acute dismay how that had happened to him . |
| 14 | They 're so much more satisfactorily final and distinguished than weddings ; and christenings always fill me with great unease and pessimism and I do n't like sugared almonds . ’ |
| 15 | He was always inviting me to little supper parties and so on , and it became so noticeable that other people began to make snide comments . |
| 16 | Doctor Turner takes me aside to acquaint me in funereal tones with the details of a colleague 's latest symptoms . |
| 17 | but it always bothers me for other people like you know . |
| 18 | I do n't know if he ever guessed my feelings but he always treated me with great kindness and understanding . |
| 19 | The easy-going Crocosmia masanorum with orange flowers and its varieties Cx crocosmiiflora ‘ Lucifer , ( red ) and C. ‘ Emily McKenzie ’ ( yellow with red eye ) always remind me of Cornish lanes in summer . |
| 20 | He was forever denouncing me during Parliamentary Questions in the most lurid terms but the denunciations were invariably so protracted that even his own side lost interest . |
| 21 | There are a number of issues which still concern me about continuing education for students with disabilities , just as they did when I entered college life — for example , the fear and ignorance that often surrounds this seemingly homogeneous condition known as ‘ disability ’ , and the unmitigated prejudice and stereotyping of people who do not ‘ fit ’ into a mythical category commonly known as ‘ normal ’ . |
| 22 | ‘ You nearly expected me in vain , ’ the Friar said . |
| 23 | The hon. Member for Linlithgow also asked me about competitive tendering and the tendering process . |
| 24 | if those people also supply me with never-ending cups of tea and coffee while they 're there . |
| 25 | She kept phoning me up to tell me about Crowded House tickets and that she could n't get any . |
| 26 | ‘ Lots of people at school have commented on it and now associate me with Tory party propaganda . |
| 27 | I placed Geoffrey Wilkinson , a Principal Inspector of Accidents ( who has now succeeded me as Chief Inspector and head of AIB ) , in charge of the investigation . |
| 28 | As I passed the hall in a large comprehensive school , where notices proclaimed ‘ Quiet please : examination in progress ’ , the invigilator , a geography teacher , staggered out to engage me in slurred discussion of educational issues . |
| 29 | The idea of sub-contracting an exhibition piece now fills me with abject horror . |
| 30 | They were always changing them to try and balance up the take I suppose , on each , each leg of the route and there was always was the chief clerk then and him and I got on very well together and he really initiated me into running times . |