Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] me [prep] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All his mystical religion thing , his faddishness about food , his belief in being close to nature , following nature … all that appealed to me at first . |
| 2 | I could not have conceived of any circumstances in which it would have been sensible for any particular political group to murder Gaitskell , and the likelihood that it was murder — in such an immensely complicated fashion — seemed to me at first blush fanciful and absurd . |
| 3 | Because , I mean , I , I 've , I 've got three weeks holiday owing to me from last year . |
| 4 | It seems to me of first importance to confront this kind of question realistically and not to discredit one 's cause by refusing to admit that the clash exists . |
| 5 | I thought they were joking with me at first . |
| 6 | ‘ I just said , it looked to me at first as though it was a woman , then just something made me think it might be a man . ’ |
| 7 | You wonder that it should seem to me at first all illusion But how natural — It is true of me … very true … that I have not a high appreciation of what passes in the world under the name of love ; & that a distrust of the thing had grown to be a habit of mind with me when I knew you first . |
| 8 | Everything he had loved about me at first became embarrassing . |
| 9 | He made himself say to me at last , after weeks of dithering like a frightened diver on a rock , ‘ D' you think my Jammie will ever go in bed with me ? |