Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] [prep] me [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | President , colleagues , I am so proud and honoured to receive this gold badge , more so because this is the award given to me by you President , I do want to thank a number of people I also want to thank the regional secretary , Steve , who thank you , Steven , for your support and guidance . |
| 2 | As a young Christian exclaimed to me on realizing for the first time the titanic implications of this claim , ‘ I always knew Christianity was true , but I never realized it was this true ! ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I am grateful for the support given to me by the London Fire Brigade and I would also like to thank the Fire Brigades Union . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I am grateful for the support given to me by the London Fire Brigade , who have done all they can to help me over the years since the fire , and I would also like to thank the Fire Brigades Union for underwriting the risks of my legal claim . ’ |
| 5 | Among the items Jean-Claude chose were antiquarian books given to me by Helmut in the expectation that my reading horizons , which stretched no further than the English classics , might be enlarged by beautiful print and binding and lavish illustra-tions , and a collection of now rare pre-war recordings of the Beethoven quartets and the song-cycles of Schumann and Schubert recorded in private performances . |
| 6 | Maybe the wee dram given to me by one of the Sergeant instructors kept out the cold . |
| 7 | The tactics adopted by me against the large boy was to be used in all future fights with taller opponents , with the same success . |
| 8 | You can appreciate by the remarks my agent made to me on the telephone ( words which I swear I have not amended or distorted in any way at all ) just how big and unpleasant a problem I have sitting like a gibbering troll on my innocent shoulders . |
| 9 | Now for a motor car I think you can say that the practical desirabilities of a car , and the acceleration and performance and looks are very important , one could also say that the fact that many people have their cars bought for me by the firm they work for means that they will therefore buy a larger car than they would if it was their own money that they were spending , so the market for cars is perhaps not one which is determined by energy efficiency or even optimum efficiency in terms of people 's and prestige is coming into it as much as these other factors and it is determined by who pays the money . |
| 10 | I want you and Sheila to know how very much I appreciate the kindness shown to me in my earlier mood of despondency . |
| 11 | One of the porters beamed at me from under his large straw hat . |
| 12 | I was also on the receiving end of some pranks played on me by the cameramen . |
| 13 | A flower demonstration called From Me To You by Ian tomorrow , seven for seven thirty tomorrow at the Festival Hall , Kirkby in Ashfield , Nottingham , two pounds fifty and that includes refreshments . |
| 14 | The sale was conducted by Messrs Cobb , many items being bought in by Mr T. Lingham including sheep , cattle , horses etc. as well as hop growing implements The growing of hops continued into the present century in Upper Hailing , and a photograph album loaned to me by Mr P. Lingham shows some fine photos taken in the hop fields of Upper Hailing as well as the farm , these date from the late 19th and early 20th century . |
| 15 | His blue eyes rested on me with , apparently , genuine concern . |
| 16 | With eyes fixed on me as if I was hypnotisin' him , he takes the papermate out of the tray and moves away as if I might bite . |
| 17 | I felt my face go red , as red as it was physically possible for it to go red , and a surge of hate and rage and fear swept through me from nerve ending to brain cell to nerve ending . |
| 18 | I mean , if I get any more songs submitted to me with a manky old Soul II Soul drum beat on them , I 'll be very angry indeed . |
| 19 | He moved his heels slightly and the horse edged towards me like a police horse controlling a crowd . |
| 20 | During those times I read a great deal — mostly books chosen for me by my father and which I thought more suitable for boys than for girls — Jack London , Rider Haggard , Talbot Baines Reed , Arthur Ransome . |
| 21 | When I entered the Winter Gardens he was emerging surrounded by an hysterical crowd , having been greeted by a demonstration described to me by a hostile witness as ‘ reminiscent of a Nuremberg Rally ’ . |
| 22 | It is also acknowledged and agreed that I will perform my functions hereunder solely for the said parties and neither correspondence relating to the dispute nor any finding or award made by me as expert shall give rise to any right in favour of any person not a party hereto and any such correspondence and finding [ or award ] will be confidential to the said parties and will not be disclosed without my prior written consent , which I will not unreasonably withhold but which may be given subject to conditions . |
| 23 | The splendid packed lunch arranged for me by Major Hal that morning plus the thermos of American coffee made a welcome lunch as ‘ Deemy ’ and I winged our solitary way over the continuous stretches of grasslands , lakes and rivers of Siberia to make a smooth landing at the Russian Air Force base at Irkutsk early that evening . |
| 24 | ‘ What saddened me about the reviews , ’ said Crawford , ‘ was n't so much that they had a go at the play , but they did n't recognise all the work done for me by the rest of the team . |
| 25 | For example I had my bottom wiped for me for six weeks . |
| 26 | But Sally was so good , Luckily I 'd remembered to pack the Farley 's Rusks and she had those mixed up with boiled water the guard got for me from the restaurant car . ’ |
| 27 | A large blonde girl waved at me from across the room , spilling a large part of her drink down the back of another woman 's dress at the same time . |
| 28 | The cat rushed past me into the hallway . |
| 29 | Laughter tightened inside me like a pain . |
| 30 | ‘ It is not a seen gaze , but a gaze imagined by me in the field of the other ’ ( Lacan 1981 ) . |