Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] me [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | er Chairman thank you for inviting me to come erm here today , er particularly as Mrs who 's the other member of erm , affected by the lorry ban on the A ten eighty eight it 's unfortunate unable to come , erm and thank you for including me in the er consultation process that you 're planning with Norfolk County Council , er Chairman obviously I wish to support this , but just erm if I could make a couple of observations on your paper , erm firstly particular relation to the discussion we just had about Brandon , erm , I am aware Mr Chairman you 've just described the er highways people in Norfolk as very reasonable , but I think that members will see particular if they look at problems like four point one that we do have to handle er working relationships with some care and I would want to express regret while I wo n't be less impolite than that , but Norfolk have not even seen fit to put up signs erm warning of the lorry ban erm in Thetford , erm , which shows er not exactly the spirit of co-operation , I hope we 're going to be able to achieve in the consultations about Brandon and I thought |
| 2 | The particular question that my hon. Friend raises is for my right hon. and learned Friend the Attorney-General , but I am grateful to him for reminding me of the precise statistics with which it is always sensible to be armed in any conference on the agreement . |
| 3 | After presenting me with a bag of tomatoes , she glanced at my mangled leg and made the pronouncement . |
| 4 | Well erm erm had a word with erm who was about oh fourth in line in the erm education hierarchy in those days and erm then spoke to who was the Chief Education Officer and er , I think they were a bit erm , bit apprehensive about employing a blind typist because erm it was something that they had never had any experience of but in the end they thought it was worth a try and er especially after supporting me at the College and erm also perhaps they had in mind that many of the erm employees would be leaving if war broke out and erm , in fact by that time war had probably started |
| 5 | After leaving me outside a restaurant in the theatre district while he and his friends dined inside with Oliver Wendell Holmes or P.T. Barnum , I realized it was stupid to pander to his interest in aesthetics . |
| 6 | I have to thank you , Jenny , for saving me from an almost certain accident . |
| 7 | I am indebted to husband John for pushing me into the purchase at a time I obviously needed the machine but was not very full of vim and zip to get it and learn it . |
| 8 | Within a few days of seeing me for the first time , he summoned me once again to tell me that the Labour Party did not wish to continue with the action . |
| 9 | I would have liked to have gone to Venice , where there was a faculty of languages , or Bologna , where I could have read Economics and Commerce ; but the war was on , and the expense of keeping me in a distant town was beyond the means of my parents . |
| 10 | There had been talk of sending me to a special school , but my family were not ready to accept such an open acknowledgment of my disability , and the excuse was again made about academic standards . |
| 11 | It never occurred to me that other children were n't spoiled as a matter of course , the way I was , and it would be years — and my father would be dead — before I understood that the expense of sending me to a boarding school was just an excuse , and the simple , sentimental truth was that they knew they would have missed me . |
| 12 | Each week he would sit me on his knee and , under the pretence of asking me about the things I 'd been doing at school , he would squeeze my thighs and waist . |
| 13 | " When you did me the honour of appointing me to the Mastership of Stockport School I was led to suppose that the Income , inclusive of Ten Pounds paid by your Worshipful Company , amounted to nearly Three Hundred Pounds per annum , and from an Enquiry , however , during my Residence here , I have had the Mortification to find that the whole Salary was not more than £25 10 10½d , so that it was impossible for me to remain in the Situation without a Prospect of Church Preferment in the Neighbourhood , which I have no reason to hope for . |
| 14 | Refusing to rise to the bait , she visualised and counted ten elephants , a hangover habit from her childhood , then , her voice tightly controlled , asked , ‘ Would you please explain why you insisted on bringing me here instead of taking me to the Trevi ? ’ |
| 15 | When I protested , they assured me that there would be no question of hiding me from the crowd . |
| 16 | The tigress was undoubtedly familiar with every foot of the ground , and not having had an opportunity of killing me at the rocks — and her chance of bagging me at the first hairpin bend having been spoilt by the kakar — she was probably now making her way through the dense undergrowth to try to intercept me at the second bend . |
| 17 | The tigress was undoubtedly familiar with every foot of the ground , and not having had an opportunity of killing me at the rocks — and her chance of bagging me at the first hairpin bend having been spoilt by the kakar — she was probably now making her way through the dense undergrowth to try to intercept me at the second bend . |
| 18 | Thank you for providing me with an excellent short article for the summer edition of Rural Wales . |
| 19 | Thanks for providing me with an excellent article for the summer edition of Cymru Wledig . |
| 20 | I am indebted to our Home Improvements Editor , David Holloway , for providing me with the following information relating to the 2.5 per cent VAT increase announced in the recent Budget . |
| 21 | Again , many thanks for providing me with the opportunity to meet the Committee , it was very helpful . |
| 22 | I AM indebted to the Esperanto Centre in London for providing me with the following gem , under the heading ‘ Unfortunate Translations ’ . |
| 23 | But he did say that er it 'll take three weeks before he can get back to me about sending me to the Law |
| 24 | I know she 's disappointed as you are but may I coming in her place thank Nicholas Hinton and his colleagues for having me at the Barbican at this important annual public meeting . |
| 25 | She wrote in the card : ‘ Thanks for treating me like a human being . |
| 26 | What amazes me is how often they 'll say to me ‘ Thank you very much for treating me like a human being ’ because however drunk they are in the churchyard I always believe that you 're much more likely to get somewhere with somebody if you are polite and kind to them and treat them like a real human being , and you can get into all sorts of fascinating conversations with these people even when they are fairly drunk , because actually they are real human beings , they are n't awful people . |
| 27 | My time at the Housing Corporation was eventful in bringing me for the first , but no means last , time into contact with Mrs Thatcher when , on the fall of the Heath government , she became the shadow Minister of the Environment , in succession to the job she had had as Minister of Education . |
| 28 | Three years and some months since leaving him , I had satisfied myself that , in picking me as a wife , he had done no more than is required to select a fruit from a dish with the prospect of some fleeting juiciness , but no lasting nourishment . |
| 29 | ‘ You 'll like this one , ’ they leer , before showering me with a few priceless gems from the treasury of homophobic humour . |
| 30 | During the eight years I worked for Fred Workman he never lectured me on the practice or ethics of journalism , and in assigning me to a story he never told me what to do . |