Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [prep] me [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had a determined attitude , a few months ' really hard winter training under my belt and a driving ambition to put behind me the previous year 's exit in the opening round . |
| 2 | Starlight and glow-worm light captured for me the simplicity of this joy . |
| 3 | After a few minutes in the kitchen , the lady placed before me a plate of home-made scones , a dish of jam and a large pot of tea , all delicious . |
| 4 | Professor Donaldson was so irate at my letter in the Times , which he considered to reflect upon English architects in general , that he proposed moving the Institute to reverse the recommendation of their council to award to me the annual Royal Gold Medal of the Institute , and was only dissuaded from attempting to inflict that gratuitous dishonour upon me by strong remonstrances . |
| 5 | The Fat Controller forced upon me the conclusion that things were not at all as they seemed . |
| 6 | However , this job revealed to me the big , wide , illegal world of the homosexual . |
| 7 | Anchovy-paste sandwiches , scones and Dundee cake seemed to me an ample repast , particularly as I had a nervous , irrational distaste for eating the food of Syl 's mother in her house . |
| 8 | The joke turned against me a few days later as we were preparing to go alongside a ship at Baltic Wharf on the river Crouch . |
| 9 | For the Institution even to contemplate withdrawing the free journal seems to me a grave injustice , particularly to senior Life Governors ( I am 78 ) … |
| 10 | Like most people who have had a supremely happy relationship , I felt an aura of love still about me , and Leslie 's courage put upon me an obligation to be brave . |
| 11 | Though Conrad 's Narcissus runs it close , Crime and Punishment remains for me the most accessible and exciting novel in the world . |
| 12 | ‘ That one evening created in me a deep and lasting dislike of the extreme evangelical style of evangelism . ’ |
| 13 | I had no intention of giving trouble or offence to anyone , not me , but the case-officer discerned in me the potential for terrible trouble . |
| 14 | The constant view of so much hair excited in me a love of nature , wild nature , that has never waned . |
| 15 | The Commissioner discussed with me the statement you made to him , and we both feel that it may require action on a number of different fronts , and that it would , therefore , be helpful if our Police Liaison Group handled matters from the start . |
| 16 | I believe that day implanted in me a life-long craving for barbaric splendour , for savagery and colour and the throb of drums , and that it gave me a lasting veneration for long-established custom and ritual , from which would derive later a deep-seated resentment of Western innovations in other lands , and a distaste for the drab uniformity of the modern world . |
| 17 | One person said to me a year or two ago : ‘ I 'm scared of dying . |
| 18 | The gesture revealed nothing of that woman 's essence , one could say rather that the woman revealed to me the charm of a gesture . |
| 19 | This theory seems to me the most sophisticated method at present available of conceiving the relationship between musical forms and practices , on the one hand , and class interests and social structure , on the other ; more sophisticated , say , than the theories of homology put forward by some ethnomusicologists and subcultural theorists , which suggest the existence of structural ‘ resonances ’ , or homologies , between the different elements making up a socio-cultural whole. ; Such theories always end up in some kind of reductionism — ‘ upwards ’ , into an idealist cultural spirit , ‘ downwards ’ , into economism , sociologism or technologism , or by ‘ circumnavigation ’ , in a functionalist holism . |
| 20 | Drenching even a few rooms , with foam and then a chemical spray seems to me a high penalty for catching what American police forces call a perpetrator . |
| 21 | Feeding your fish is probably the most important aspect of the hobby , but one which in terms of technical and specific advice seems to me a very grey area indeed , not helped particularly by product-leaflets/literature or indeed product labels as designed by the fish food manufacturers . |
| 22 | And I used to load the boot up and bring them and load home like in the boot of my car my Sales Manager said to me the other day , how the hell did you get bright red dust in your boot ? |
| 23 | I say it again and the man looks at me a bit angry like . |
| 24 | His poem exemplifies for me the many wonders and the brilliant light of the transcendent ; and also the unity of our soul as it basks in the warmth of that light . |
| 25 | Such a transitory career as a rabbi suggests to me a new saying — ‘ sick humorists transit ingloriously ’ . |
| 26 | His age and status induced in me the normal mixture of deference , fear and cheek . |
| 27 | I do not like the graphic novel , and for a new work from a successful author to come only in this form seems to me a shame . |
| 28 | ‘ I can not say why , precisely , but for hundreds , thousands — an infinite number of reasons — you fascinated me , and that fascination encouraged in me the desire to live , something that abandoned me on the death of my sister . |
| 29 | Fellow said to me the other week you do n't live here . |
| 30 | Look what Jesus says here in Luke chapter thirteen , in verse twenty four , just let me pick a few phrases out , verse twenty four it says shall not be able in verse twenty five there was their cry Lord open to us and in verse twenty seven their response depart from me the result in verse twenty eight there was gon na be weeping it was n't gon na be universal , they were not all gon na be saved , they were not all just gon na be swept in in the last day and did n't really matter , you 're all buddies together now in heaven , not at all , this surely what Jesus says here makes it very clear that all will not be saved if at first we 've already mentioned in John er no sorry verse further on in John three this done verse thirty six he who believes in the son has eternal life , but he who does not obey the son shall not see life but the wrath of God abides upon him , there 's no suggestion there of being ultimately brought in to God 's heaven and ultimately being saved , no it is the wrath of God abideth upon that person . |