Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] me [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | This is another of Nic Picot 's tricks which he tried on me in the pub outside the Magic Circle . |
| 32 | It occurred to me for the first time that he might not know whether or not I 'd lost the baby . |
| 33 | I accepted this as natural ; it never occurred to me at the time that a housemaster could also be a friend . |
| 34 | ‘ It occurred to me at the time , ’ said Ian carefully , thinking that two could play at infant teaching , ‘ that it was candlelight , not , that is to say ’ — he managed contempt in his tone with no effort at all — ‘ electric light . ’ |
| 35 | It 's what they all say to me in the end . |
| 36 | Diamond Head was leaping at me from the right . |
| 37 | Liz , the receptionist , peered at me over the top of her pink-rimmed spectacles . |
| 38 | He drinks from his can and looks at me over the top of it . |
| 39 | He looks at me through the mirror and nods slightly , which I take to mean he 'd like my help . |
| 40 | He looks at me for the first time . |
| 41 | In any case , it 's weird that whenever I say that to Keith , he looks at me with the unmistakably quizzical air of the tall thin intellectual he is , his hair on the blond side of chestnut ( now heavily greying ) ; his fair skin with his rosy cheeks reminding one of Victorian youths with perfect complexions ( or so the novels of Wilkie Collins and the paintings of the Pre-Raphaelites would have us believe ) ; his eyebrows bushy and deliberately unkempt ; his classic tweed suit of the old school , worn with a shamefully Byronic air somewhere between hippy and academic ; his accent public school , as befits his education , although he also speaks a passable Spanish , so we can keep switching languages whenever linguistic difficulties develop . |
| 42 | There were too many strange things happening around me at the time . ’ |
| 43 | He will be long remembered , valued and respected by me for the development of a movement which firmly established " People 's Art " as part of the expectation of education for each person and especially for children . |
| 44 | I wondered if her presence was an invitation ; I felt that if I stretched out my hand to grasp hers she would have sat by me on the bed . |
| 45 | The sun crept towards me over the red tiles . |
| 46 | When the little ones squeeze past me in the Superette I give their mops the chaste old tousle . |
| 47 | Little did I imagine that such a move was destined for me within the next two years . |
| 48 | Andy has got a job to do and so have I. But if I lose he will be gutted for me at the end and if I lose I will be gutted for him . ’ |
| 49 | ‘ 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 . |
| 50 | It means I must leave the doors unlocked , but that 's less risk than having him come looking for me within the quarter-hour , as he surely would . ’ |
| 51 | The earth never quite moved for me in the Dante Sonata as I thought at one stage it might . |
| 52 | " Everything written about me in the law of Moses and the prophets and the psalms must be fulfilled . " |
| 53 | Take Nosey and the spare horse , then wait for me at the crossroads . |
| 54 | After that , wait for me at the corner of the street . ’ |
| 55 | Wait for me in the office . |
| 56 | And while I 'm doing that , the two bucks are pushing past me into the room and they 've got his shirt open and they 're really doing a number on him . |
| 57 | Kids were pushing past me down the corridor , all shouting and yelling to each other , and Kevin was carried along with them . |
| 58 | I turned back to find Yvonne 's grinning face looking past me in the same direction . |
| 59 | It was from KeriKeri I started the two-hour flight in a 152 that took me over Hokianga Harbour on the Tasman Sea , along Ninety-Mile Beach to the northernmost tip of New Zealand , and right above a school of dolphins swimming below me in the crystal-clear Pacific waters of Doubtless Bay . |
| 60 | Even that I believed , but the lipstick on his underpants ‘ administered by a gay dwarf in drag , brushing past me in the men 's showers ’ was a bit much . |