Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] [vb past] me [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On returning to the UK my luck held , and a posting to the fringe of Lakeland enabled me to complete my shopping list on Dow , in Langdale , Dovedaly , and on Castle Rock . |
| 2 | But the memory of Mala in that half-embrace with Gharr made me wonder if she had not already … travelled beyond my reach . |
| 3 | The fellow 's smugness and unnecessary familiarity with Mala made me dislike him at once . |
| 4 | But before I went to Luggnagg , an official I had met in Lagado persuaded me to visit the small island of Glubbdubdrib . |
| 5 | ‘ The problems of distribution and the various changes that we had to make to establish ourselves in Scotland made me think that if I just swung the compass I 'd land up in Paris . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Being here in Majorca made me think of Seville . |
| 7 | ‘ Working in Malawi allowed me to witness the commitment of that small country to its wildlife . |
| 8 | ‘ Our man in Houston told me to come down and look at it [ epoflex ] in a hurry or it will be gone , ’ said Joseph Raska , materials and test paint engineer for the Texas Department of Highways . |
| 9 | ‘ I must pay tribute to them for both Dominic Quinn from Banbridge and John Bailie from Lurgan told me to take my time with the horse and bring him back only when I felt it was right to do so . |
| 10 | A note from Mellowes instructed me to cast my eye over the draft , pronto , for inaccuracies . |
| 11 | Hearing of this preliminary training for the Parachute Regiment at Hardwick made me think up an indelicate version of the famous old rhyme about that prodigy house , ‘ Hardwick Hall , more glass than wall ’ : ‘ Hardwick Hall , sore a — e when fall ’ . |
| 12 | No I never at Greenspot let me say . |
| 13 | The canal men at Gairlochy advised me to keep to the south-east of Loch Lochy and follow the disused rail track to Laggan instead of the forestry road on the other side . |