Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [noun] [verb] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do you know , my psychiatrist spent hour after hour convincing me that it was all in the mind , that nobody really was out to get me , that the world was n't conspiring against me … |
| 2 | All this talk about scum reminded me that over here ( Montreal ) scum is an acronym for a um er feminist group called the Society for Cutting Up Men … they are a nice bunch of girls and would probably be Man U fans if they watched football . |
| 3 | Hashmat Ara Begum , a community worker in the Borough of Camden told me that she too had come across the most contemptuous attitudes among Health Visitors . |
| 4 | Says singer Michael Stipe : ‘ The very weird religion of celebrity scares me . |
| 5 | Those sorts of things inspired me , and the reason those records sound like they do is because they used that equipment . |
| 6 | I think when I meet — and maybe would count them not in hundreds , but in tens — when I meet women who make those sorts of comments and say this time last year I would not have said that , then those sorts of things encourage me very much . |
| 7 | What sorts of factors constrain me to do so ? |
| 8 | Thinking of Bonanza got me on trying to figure his reaction if Vecchi got hooked for the Mahoney killing . |
| 9 | So far from craving for crumpets I was firmly resisting repatriation and trying hard to stay where I was ; the kindness of friends enabled me to do so . |
| 10 | My only desire was to keep these hideous creatures at bay whilst I desperately looked for a gap in the ring of steel surrounding me . |
| 11 | The mention of Frankenstein stopped me in mid-thought . |
| 12 | Mention of Polidori reminds me that the little Italian doctor had entered with Mary . |
| 13 | And mention of Ken brings me to a quick word about British gold panners . |
| 14 | He 'd planned this summit carefully , and now the Zen of the entire thing had gone crazy , because just as Dad opened his mouth to start talking blood had started to drip into my lap from my nose as a result of Charlie chucking me into his drum-kit . |
| 15 | Then from the sealed camp at Fairford — ‘ The Cage ’ , where members of the S.A.S. were confined after they had been briefed — there was released the batch of letters to overwhelm me anew with love and foreboding . |
| 16 | Even in obeying ‘ Be aware ’ , the objects which with arousal of awareness draw me towards them also enhance awareness of themselves , the objects which repel also numb awareness of themselves . |
| 17 | ‘ Easy — a stroke of genius hit me at the height of the bombing , General . |
| 18 | Following the further arguments of which we have had the benefit , I should find it very difficult , in conscience , to reach a conclusion adverse to the appellants on the basis of a technical rule of construction requiring me to ignore the very material which in this case indicates unequivocally which of the two possible interpretations of section 63(2) of the Act of 1976 was intended by Parliament . |
| 19 | Holmes ' warm words of thanks made me feel much happier , and I saw that he was right . |
| 20 | These words of wisdom remind me of a student who came to see me many years ago after the long vacation during which she had begun her undergraduate dissertation ( with another tutor who had left the university that summer , I must emphasize ) . |
| 21 | Then there was a tape of Jill sending me a message . |
| 22 | She did seem to meet quite a number of people on her walks ; people whom I knew a little , so that fragments of conversation pursued me . |
| 23 | Dreadful sensations of isolation overcame me . |
| 24 | A surge of adrenalin lifted me sky-high . |
| 25 | I moved to one side with Jamie helping me and went down on my hands and knees on a comparatively clean part of the concrete where the oil stains looked old . |
| 26 | When I got back , I found a card from Ivy asking me to lunch — yesterday — Thursday ; and John had written to Ivy to say he thought I could go , and so I did , and she was pleased to have the loukoumi . |
| 27 | As the week went on I got more and more anguished telegrams from home telling me to conclude the deal and come home . |
| 28 | Here I need mention only that my work at the Staff College and the Royal Military College in Baghdad put me under suspicion of espionage , and that had the pro-Nazi rebellion of Raschid Ali of May 1941 ( during which I was given protection in the American Embassy ) been successful , I should have fared badly , as it was surmised much later that I was on the rebels ' hit list . |
| 29 | twelve months in June pardon me so er , we think she 's having a boy . |
| 30 | We are supposed to be an animal loving country but using fox cubs to train young hounds to tear foxes to pieces leaves me almost speechless . |