Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] me with [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Daphne not only welcomed me with open arms but to my surprise expressed delight at the thought of my occupying one of her spare rooms . |
| 2 | Later , I managed to contact him and after a preliminary meeting , which lasted some thirteen hours , he was gracious enough to supply me with large-scale copies of maps of the area for me to be able to check his work — generosity indeed ! |
| 3 | But as I tried to follow his instructions , keeping my fists up and my chin tucked in and learning a new kind of dance on the balls of my feet , the sight of his bare , hairless chest , so brown and muscular , would suddenly fill me with more than muscular weakness , and I felt I would collapse , not under the playful blows he landed on my discombobulated body , but under the sheer spell of his magnificence . |
| 4 | Nicholas Blake , the poet C. Day Lewis , once told me with remembered acute dismay how that had happened to him . |
| 5 | Flying still excites me with that curious mixture of fear — knowing the plane has the aerodynamics of a brick once the forward thrust is lost — and the knowledge that at the other end of the journey there will be new sounds and smells and things to look at . |
| 6 | They 're so much more satisfactorily final and distinguished than weddings ; and christenings always fill me with great unease and pessimism and I do n't like sugared almonds . ’ |
| 7 | I do n't know if he ever guessed my feelings but he always treated me with great kindness and understanding . |
| 8 | He understood a little of my behaviour as he was a photographer , who also provided me with many useful photographs . |
| 9 | if those people also supply me with never-ending cups of tea and coffee while they 're there . |
| 10 | Michelin also supplied me with better tyres . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I go to many stately homes and museums but the library is what really supplies me with most of the things I get , ’ said Mrs Lamport , who started with the Dictionary of National Biography , Burke 's Peerage , and other books on notable families . |
| 12 | ‘ Lots of people at school have commented on it and now associate me with Tory party propaganda . |
| 13 | The idea of sub-contracting an exhibition piece now fills me with abject horror . |
| 14 | ‘ There were the customary acclamations from the populace as I rode in procession to the Guildhall this morning — indeed it seemed to me that my subjects had never before greeted me with such enthusiasm , ’ Edward told her , gazing into the fire as if reliving the morning 's events . |
| 15 | Please contact me with any bright ideas for a venue . |
| 16 | I cried all day long and although Bessie tried hard to tempt me with nice things to eat or my favourite books , I took no pleasure in eating or even in reading . |
| 17 | He then grabbed me with one hand and grabbed my steering wheel with the other . |
| 18 | He then presented me with three sheep , after which all his family and relations asked for presents . |
| 19 | ‘ Then help me with this lot . ’ |
| 20 | It also conveniently provided me with straight edged divisions of the remaining space . |
| 21 | Just because unsubstantiated rumours abound that Terry 's brother Ted occasionally supplies me with specialist literature from the Continent , it does not mean I am taking backhanders or looking favourably towards Terry when including him in the first team . |
| 22 | Inside the hall I 'm quickly surrounded by friendly eager lads in makeshift punk clothes covered in punky badges , who hungrily batter me with curious searching questions . |