Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] 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 | You expect me to believe that the board just chose me at random ? |
| 3 | I did n't really like the people at OUCA [ the Oxford University Conservative Association ] , they just struck me as spotty spods . ’ |
| 4 | Nicholas Blake , the poet C. Day Lewis , once told me with remembered acute dismay how that had happened to him . |
| 5 | I do n't know if he ever guessed my feelings but he always treated me with great kindness and understanding . |
| 6 | ‘ You nearly expected me in vain , ’ the Friar said . |
| 7 | The hon. Member for Linlithgow also asked me about competitive tendering and the tendering process . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ And there was I imagining that underneath that hostile exterior there was a girl who really held me in high esteem . ’ |
| 10 | As a small boy , I devised my own set of cartoon animals , and they now stood me in good stead . |
| 11 | It also conveniently provided me with straight edged divisions of the remaining space . |
| 12 | Johns was always liked , but it was ironic , and irony never interested me in visual art the way that it did in literature or the theatre . |