Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] [noun] [vb past] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | The moment I touched the ground I knew why — the excessive ( to me — but normal to Tiree residents ) wind whipped me and my heavily laden briefcase into the lounge where Peter McMillan , Manager of Scarinish Branch offered me the relative calm of his car . |
| 2 | On a recent visit to Preston , the managing director of Leyland DAF told me that sales of trucks and buses — which I am sure the Minister agrees form an important part of the industry — in 1991 are at their lowest level since the 1930s . |
| 3 | Monsieur Boudin of Perrier Jouet told me that in ‘ the old days ’ the Pinot Noir of Aÿ once had a gout de terroir which , I am glad to say , has since been ‘ lost ’ . |
| 4 | However , it soon became obvious that Inez was not to be found , and everything I learned about Matthew Glynn convinced me that he was an honest man . ’ |
| 5 | It came as a shock to realise that nearly 20 years had passed since an enthusiastic young couple in Capel Curig told me they were going to ‘ do ’ Snowdonia that afternoon . |
| 6 | My interest in China-Canada relations prompted me to spend several spare hours each week helping his staff re-write news and information despatches from Nanking , the current capital of China . |
| 7 | Whereas in Reine Jean-Claude reminded me of a caged animal , in préfleur he reminded me of something growing in its natural habitat . |
| 8 | The boy from Viet Nam told me |
| 9 | It is very warm and rather bulkier than the old one , though the nice girl in John Lewis told me they get thin and tired after about nine years — and mine has done twelve , so it is going to go to for our use there . |
| 10 | My father 's passion for Tracey Childs prepared me for a life of drama |
| 11 | But on my return to Salamanca Dana gave me strong support , a spiritual courage that entered our love and our poetry . |
| 12 | Meanwhile as my visits to South Africa showed me in such a traumatic and depressing way the conditions of the majority have got worse there 's economic recession lay-offs , high inflation rate and growing violence more people have been killed in South Africa in the last two years than in any previous two years that you look at . |
| 13 | That trip back to Winston Street taught me the answer . |
| 14 | At Gateshead Frank informed me that I was going to run in the B relay team at the meeting , and I refused . |
| 15 | A night at Fort William gave me a long awaited opportunity of making the ascent . |
| 16 | I can not resist the admission that I was profoundly flattered when a telephone call from Harold Wilson at Downing Street invited me to mediate on the basis that , so far as they could see , I was for the moment the only tolerable candidate . |
| 17 | Seddon 's remark that I should n't try to get in touch with him at Scotland Yard set me thinking . |
| 18 | In 1978 fog at Heathrow airport prevented me from flying to referee the first ever game between France and Russia , and in 1981 a leg injury picked up in the First Test prevented me refereeing the Second Test between France and New Zealand . |
| 19 | A few quite days by F/L Newton gave me some circuits in the Oxford on the 25th . |
| 20 | Colloquium yesterday by Steve Jones set me thinking . |
| 21 | The right wing hated Ted and the scenes of rejoicing when he was beaten in the leadership contest by Margaret Thatcher left me feeling very sad . |