Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] me [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Henry Ratter had arranged for me to attend several training courses , including the two-day ‘ Quality in Action ’ workshop . |
| 2 | ‘ The Prince of Wales discovered that I was to be at Broadstairs at this time ; my cooking pleased him , ’ he added simply , ‘ and voilà , he asked for me to cook this banquet too . |
| 3 | As it was , however , no suitable opportunity arose for me to gain such information . |
| 4 | ‘ I had to ask my caddie to stand behind me to make sure I was aiming correctly , ’ he said after pushing a 6-iron shot from the thirteenth tee then hooking wide of the short fifteenth green with the same club . |
| 5 | I would like to examine them with you this evening , because they appear to me to contain much more than the permissible percentage of nonsense . |
| 6 | Being as it was David 's mother , an older person , it never occurred to me to get mad or upset . |
| 7 | Eidesis came upon me trapping both layers into a third internal one . |
| 8 | At one point a uniform sergeant listening to me discuss some tactic , gloomily pointed out that my style was not theirs ; but then , he rationalized , ‘ how could it be , you 're from the north side of the river ’ . |
| 9 | It never occurs to me to want any more ; I sign contracts without reading them . |
| 10 | Her approach seemed to me to negate all that was good in illness . |
| 11 | yeah so they 've agreed for me to take fifteen pound a week instead of ten |
| 12 | Critics seem to have it the other way round , so there 's a lot of stuff talked about me using different styles , but there does n't seem to be much said about whether it works , or whether it 's done with taste , or whether the end result is worth having . |
| 13 | They were waiting for me to get beaten . |
| 14 | I refrained from saying that it would never occur to me to make such a remark . |
| 15 | The terms of desire , fantasy and the unconscious as they have functioned for film theory seem to me to lose much of their explanatory power at the level of subjectivity and identification , and it may be , as Gillian Skirrow has suggested for video games , that television can be more adequately thought through a theory of object relations . |
| 16 | This is , obviously , a fairly limited model in its own right : further , the published reports seem to me to include sufficient logical uncertainties , and the model to require so much manipulation to deal with each individual case , to raise considerable doubts about its real value . |
| 17 | Two pieces of evidence seem to me to cast some doubt on the drawing of direct parallels between LTP and memory . |
| 18 | I was surprised it had both a sunroof and air conditioning as they seem to me to cancel each other out . |
| 19 | I propose to devote a whole chapter to so-called ‘ association copies ’ , partly for the selfish reason that I am myself devoted to them and partly because , looking at them as objectively as I can , they seem to me to offer one of the most satisfying branches of book-collecting , especially to anyone with the slightest sense of history . |
| 20 | Faldo , Ballesteros and Olazabal seem to me to have much the best chance of maintaining Europe 's monopoly . |
| 21 | Faldo , Ballesteros and Olazabal seem to me to have much the best chance of maintaining Europe 's monopoly on the Masters . |
| 22 | Now it had n't occurred to me to do that because I never had kiddiwinks . |
| 23 | It had n't occurred to me to feel frightened of him then . |
| 24 | But they 're still waiting on me polishing this |
| 25 | In addition , the defendants gave undertakings to the plaintiff , one of which was as follows : Any information which I have access to or knowledge which I acquire arising out of or in the course of my contract of service shall remain confidential and shall not be used by me to obtain any gain , benefit or advantage or profits for myself or for any member of my family or connected person . |
| 26 | ‘ He remarked on me seeming worried about it and asked if I might be pregnant . ’ |
| 27 | The evolutionary story , to the extent that it can now be understood ( and to the much more modest extent to which I understand it myself ) seems to me to give some support to the view that in this respect the historical story means very much what it seems to mean . |
| 28 | I must say that I doubt the value as it seems to me become accustomed in cases of this type . |
| 29 | This seems to me to represent good grounds for believing that functionalism itself may well be true . |
| 30 | The peace conference in Madrid seems to me to subsume all past resolutions . |