Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [verb] me [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The primary entry was a compositional definition , but two of seven further entries did take me to the deep mantle . |
| 2 | I had problems with tutors trying to encourage me to diversity my work and experiment with other styles , but I was quite happy with the direction my work was heading so I stubbornly stuck to it . |
| 3 | I had problems with tutors trying to encourage me to diversity my work and experiment with other styles , but I was quite happy with the direction my work was heading so I stubbornly stuck to it . |
| 4 | Fans have besieged me of late claiming that in my last programme notes I announced the opening of a club shop . |
| 5 | The leaders of the main parties and the Darlington candidates have left me with the following impressions . |
| 6 | One of the judges agreed to accompany me on a visit to one of these centres . |
| 7 | A second opinion was sought and , short-sightedly , my parents agreed to put me in those gorgeous National Health jobs which are now sported by your average Yuppie but which made you look second only in berkishness to the kid in the owl specs with Elastoplast all over one lens . |
| 8 | A second opinion was sought and , short-sightedly , my parents agreed to put me in those gorgeous National Health jobs which are now sported by your average Yuppie but which then made you look second only in berkishness to the kid in the owl specs with elastoplast all over one lens . |
| 9 | Avoiding throngs of killers did strike me as a higher priority even than full filling my Mala-fantasies . |
| 10 | It seemed to me that I had become what my parents had wanted me to be , and I was getting no thanks from either of them for my efforts . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'd read The Lonely Londoners and I could relate to it from what my parents had told me about their early days in London [ before moving back to Nigeria when Agbenugba was ten ] . |
| 12 | ‘ Right from the beginning my fellow directors have regarded me as part of the team and have been tremendously supportive . ’ |
| 13 | Those amiable but blatantly incompetent buffoons have brought me to the wrong fucking airport ! |
| 14 | When I visit my home city of Manchester , or travel to London , New Age-types seem to greet me in every other conversation . |
| 15 | Various organisations have lobbied me about the Bill . |
| 16 | The answers to these questions seemed to elude me in the small hours in dampest Solihull , my mind seemed to be preoccupied by the pain coming from my back , neck and yes my backside as well ! |
| 17 | Lot number eighteen is the next to offer that 's the bronze model the bronze model , I have fifty pounds offered to start me at fifty , fifty five , sixty pounds , at sixty five sixty five pounds any more ? |
| 18 | Somehow the Customs officers managed to get me on board their boat , with Herbert and Startop , but our boat sank , and the two convicts had disappeared . |
| 19 | I interviewed him when he became First Sea Lord and on one or two other occasions , and I always slightly regretted that my commitment to current affairs had prevented me from taking up Associated Rediffusion 's offer to spend two years with him , at home and abroad , researching and scripting the thirteen programmes they were planning on his Life and Times — a task subsequently and admirably performed by John Terraine . |
| 20 | and er building trade work , both of these things had left me with the qualifications for be abl be able to do it . |
| 21 | Fronted by Alan Hull , Lindisfarne had some memorable hits like Meet Me on The Corner and Lady Eleanor but Fog on the Tyne was n't a hit until Gazza got his tonsils around it . |
| 22 | ( I felt like telling him those bastards had aged me by years , but I suppose we have to keep up a brave face . ) |
| 23 | The twenty-first century 4-D representations had prepared me for something horrific ; yet my impression was of features more frightening than strictly horrifying . |
| 24 | Some of his displays have reminded me of Gerald Davies at his best — and I can give no-one a greater compliment . |
| 25 | I see no reason , in the light of these reports , to abandon the conclusion that my own experience of life in the islands has led me to . |
| 26 | My failure to even get interviewed soon demonstrated to me that , even though Goldsmiths had accepted me despite my disability , I would have to fight very hard to get any further . |
| 27 | I hasten to add that the North West , Yorkshire and Southern Divisions have notified me of their annual events and members will be most welcome on these occasions as well . |
| 28 | He 's already been denied £4,000 in not facing the Windies , and said from his Melbourne home last night : ‘ The selectors have put me in the position where I have to work out what is right for my family and me . ’ |
| 29 | At my weekend surgery three pensioners came to see me in considerable distress because of the difficulty that they faced in paying their water and electricity bills and other bills from private utilities following the large price increases . |
| 30 | Second , we need to find a way to counter the way in which the piecemeal addition of further truths seems to switch me into knowledge and out again . |