Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] it [vb past] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | Occasionally the sight or smell of it nauseated me , and I found certain smells , like those of bread or sugar or chocolate , overpowering . |
| 2 | As though my relationship to it dirtied me . |
| 3 | The route to it took me past Rebecca 's school . |
| 4 | Life inside the Service might have its limitations but the thought of life outside it terrified me . |
| 5 | Looking back later , Helen recalled three things about this new life , so different from the unhappy days when she and Edward discovered that his passionate letters to her were being read by Mrs Andrews : ‘ The beauty of it delighted me , and I thought it the perfect setting for these people with their freedom of manner and thought … . |
| 6 | The pain of it took me back to that earlier pain as a six-year-old , and all the anguish of inappropriate separation . |
| 7 | The explosive pain of it brought me hellishly back to full savage consciousness and to a revived desire not to become part of the eternal mystery just yet . |