Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] me a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This became for me a serious piece of policy . |
| 2 | I found it interesting , however , that Maxine — or Martha — experienced no anxiety due to the nearness of the sea , even when she described to me a violent storm when giant waves lashed the walls of the seaside dwellings . |
| 3 | In the strictness of my own father 's wisdom , he instilled into me a deep respect for the opposite sex , so that there was no physical play or caress with any women until after I had married my wife . |
| 4 | If slavery is not wrong nothing is wrong and yet I have never understood the presidency conferred upon me an unrestricted right to act officially upon this judgment and feeling and I aver that to this day I have done no official act in mere deference to my abstract judgment and feeling on slavery . |
| 5 | Ronnie had written to me a few months before , saying that she had hesitated to get in touch but wanted me to know how concerned she was about John . |
| 6 | My worst country I think would be New Zealand as I do n't remember any of the country and it would appear to me a complete stranger if I moved there . |
| 7 | As said to me a long time ago , ‘ You use too much water over there ’ , but what he really meant was , we do not use enough fluid , and the right types of fluid . |
| 8 | If I got a question wrong , which I did more often than not , he would repeat it in what seemed to me a contemptuous tone until I got it right . |
| 9 | This seemed to me a poor reason for making the announcement and I told him that I strongly disapproved of his breach of trust . |
| 10 | I went into what seemed to me a Burmese restaurant . |
| 11 | Marjorie and Heather spent hours poring over cookery-books , which seemed to me a strange occupation for Oxford graduates , especially in the face of wartime rationing ; but perhaps it was a matter of the fox and the grapes , for I myself had not acquired any culinary skill . |
| 12 | What seemed to me a golden opportunity came to hand largely through Pearn 's connections with the History department in the University , to which he had now returned . |
| 13 | It seemed to me a natural thing to do . |
| 14 | Anchovy-paste sandwiches , scones and Dundee cake seemed to me an ample repast , particularly as I had a nervous , irrational distaste for eating the food of Syl 's mother in her house . |
| 15 | Reverently I picked it up and buried it in our back garden — three feet down seemed to me an appropriate depth . |
| 16 | The joke turned against me a few days later as we were preparing to go alongside a ship at Baltic Wharf on the river Crouch . |
| 17 | Well welcome back to the Manor ground , I 've got with me a delighted United goal keeper , Ken Vasey ; mighty close Ken . |
| 18 | Create in me a pure heart , O God |
| 19 | Erm , my fear of this report is that we are actually erm , it shows to me a certain level of complacency . |
| 20 | When I regressed her , Eileen did in fact describe to me a happy , boisterous childhood with her sister and her six brothers — all of whom took great delight in spoiling their baby sister . |
| 21 | Perhaps sex had become for me a habit-forming drug . |
| 22 | At the auberge , they set before me a beautiful soup with dumplings in it , followed by a great white sausage on a small alp of potato and onion-rings . |
| 23 | I think they sensed in me a possible convert to their beliefs , merely because I was curious , or perhaps they genuinely liked me — I do n't know . |
| 24 | He relied on me a great deal because he knew I always knew what to do . |
| 25 | This report , the standard books , the growing number of translations of the many books of the Scriptures , and discussions with scholars in Rangoon University or simple yet thoughtful Buddhists in the villages , aroused in me a reverent admiration for the Buddha , a deep interest in his teaching , and a nagging need to build some bridge in my own mind between the two religions . |
| 26 | My father may well wish for me a second marriage , and to that end I must be at offer soon , and with a proper dowry . |
| 27 | They call me that , she thought , when they are talking about me , for they talk about me a great deal even when I am there . |
| 28 | All of them were English-born and helped to imbue in me a loyal appreciation of the Royal Family . |
| 29 | I find in me A strange compulsion to direct all men E'en to the way they stand and walk or move . |
| 30 | It was an immediate transformation of my personal and social outlook and it started in me a new sort of excitement — it was as though you 'd been shot full of adrenalin . |