Example sentences of "describe [prep] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | While I was visiting Joan Greenway of Highfield Nurseries , the fruit specialists , she described to me her recipe for trouble-free apple growing : disease-resistant varieties , the right rootstock for your preferred size of tree , a simple summer and winter prune plus a crab apple to take care of your pollination needs . |
| 2 | He described to me the glen in a storm — the darkness that mantles it , the springing into life of untold hosts of runlets , the careering in mad fury of the burns as they break through and tower above the channel wherein they are wont to flow ; the showers , the careering of the clouds , the thunderings and the lightning-flashings , and the artillery of the winds , as the air-gusts meet the peaks and explode in the hollows of the darksome corries . |
| 3 | As I questioned her during the session , Maxine described to me a life as Martha , a fisherman 's wife in a small seaport in the late eighteenth century . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He described to me a life of violence and hatred in which he lost no opportunity to vent his anger upon those around him — and , what is more , he actually enjoyed doing so . |
| 6 | And then he described to me the first time he and Montaine had happened upon it . |
| 7 | My father described to me how the Guides had arrived and gone straight into action after marching day and night from the Punjab ; how Nicholson had been killed leading the troops as they stormed the ramparts of Delhi . |
| 8 | ‘ Can you describe to me Toby Latimer 's professional position ? ’ |
| 9 | If I sa said to you , tell me , could you describe to me briefly the layout of where is it you work ? |
| 10 | I remembered my father describing to me what happened after a German V2 rocket had hit and destroyed out house in St John 's Wood in London during the second world war . |
| 11 | ‘ You know , before the war , before you were born , before illness took a grip on her , Sylvie used to love parties , just like the ones you 've beep describing to me . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He found it hard to describe to me the abominable way in which he was treated in a prisoner of war camp . |
| 14 | The Pakistani village of Mohinuddinpur was described to me by Shamim , a woman who now lives in Bradford . |
| 15 | Zubeida , a woman in her thirties , described to me her experiences of twelve years ago . |
| 16 | In Wandsworth the attitude of the Area Health Authority and of Health Visitors was described to me by Geeta Amin , a social worker with Wandsworth Community Relations Council . |
| 17 | This case was described to me by Hamida Kazi , a community worker in Bradford . |
| 18 | Gina Skelton , an English school teacher , described to me how women in a traditional Muslim family made a Kamiz for her . |
| 19 | Another reaction , just as common , was described to me by a Sikh girl from Birmingham : |
| 20 | What it is like being married into a ‘ low status ’ family in the Midlands was described to me by Surjeet , a teacher in her early twenties who had grown up in Britain . |
| 21 | Girls of fourteen and fifteen described to me these conflicts in their own families . |
| 22 | Prabhaben , a woman in her thirties , described to me the conditions at the laundry where she works . |
| 23 | In the early days of the strike Jayaben Desai , perhaps Britain 's best known Asian trade unionist , described to me what it had been like when she came to work at Grunwick in the mail order department : |
| 24 | ‘ It has been described to me as an isolated house in the midst of fields , through which are only rough and rutty waggon tracks , and I have been told too , that it is hidden from passers along the road by a dark grove of trees . |
| 25 | He says , ‘ My mind was much to the place as soon as it was described to me , because it was a full congregation … an ignorant , rude and revelling people for the greater part , who had need of preaching , and yet had among them a small company of converts , who were humble , godly and of good conversations , and not much hated by the rest , and therefore fitter to assist their teacher ; but above all , because they hardly ever had any lively , serious preaching among them . |
| 26 | As slim as a reed and as shy as a bird with the eyes of a gazelle , were all the aspects of beauty once described to me by the Youngest Son as most desirable in a woman . |
| 27 | When our time there coincided , it avoided friction such as the weekend when Nigel returned and described to me the site where some new tunnelling had started . |
| 28 | One problem which has been described to me by nurses and health visitors who returned to practice before the advent of re-entry programmes is the difficulty represented by assumed knowledge . |
| 29 | The landing strip had been described to me in some detail . |
| 30 | To give me what you 'd so often described to me . ’ |