Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] me an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Reverently I picked it up and buried it in our back garden — three feet down seemed to me an appropriate depth . |
| 4 | The need for the Labour Party to abandon the trade union block vote has seemed to me an open-and-shut case since I first wrote advocating it , in the old Manchester Guardian , in 1957 . |
| 5 | ( It seems to me an odd misuse of modern theatre aesthetics to believe that asides and soliloquies are ‘ distancing ’ or ‘ alienating ’ devices : rather the opposite . ) |
| 6 | ( p. 3 ) This aim , which seems to me an obvious piece of common sense , caused uproar among many teachers of English , who feared a return to the rote-learning of the 1950s . |
| 7 | It seems to me an unfortunate coincidence , therefore , that the pharmaceutical company that provided financial support for the consensus group chose to mount a postal advertising campaign within a week of the group 's report , urging surgeons to use its particular low molecular weight heparin for venous thromboprophylaxis and citing the consensus group 's recommendations as evidence for this . |
| 8 | Using this ‘ recognition ’ to explore the positivity of how domestic relations are lived seems to me an important step beyond assertions that the academic should side with the oppressed … |
| 9 | No doubt if their theses eventually appear they will contradict my oversimplified ideas on the matter , but this seems to me an ideal place to demonstrate " event stratigraphy " . |
| 10 | Jean-Claude saw in me an exotic combination of youth and money . |
| 11 | Be they shimmering Aegean jewels , or blue , mist-shrouded moments in the Outer Hebrides , they all induce in me an overwhelming urge just to drop everything and be gone . |
| 12 | I am committed to this enterprise : To climb the mountain , to cut down the cedar , and leave behind me an enduring name . ’ |
| 13 | As to dreams , day dreams , not only do they no longer impose upon me an innocent belief , but they become less glorious , less real , less natural , and less frequent . |
| 14 | It does seem to me an extraordinary catalogue of errors erm and one can well understand how errors take p er could , could have occurred during the somewhat co chaotic passage of the Railways Bill er what , what can not be understood and what is quite inexcusable is , is the fact that no steps adequate steps have been taken to correct those errors and to assure the er continued existence of a er Transport Police which er h h has the sole responsibility for er policing large public spaces in , in this country and er as the Noble Lord has made clear , er does it honour er very considerable scale , very effectively er I hope that the Minister will find it possible to make a favourable reply to the arguments which have been raised . |
| 15 | She quoted to me an odd and illuminating point , that if he wanted to take a bath when he was with friends , he could not see why they should not all be in the bath together , boys and girls , black and white . |
| 16 | I have before me an official communication in which the advice of Your Majesty 's Government is formally tendered , to the effect that in view of the grave danger to which , in their opinion , this country is being exposed , your association with Mrs Simpson should be terminated forthwith . |
| 17 | Although I 'm not especially interested in food , and would never drive more than ten miles for any culinary feast , the lunch was so perfect , so many times better than anything we ever get at home , that it induced in me an unlikely surge of ecstasy . |