Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun prp] [noun] [verb] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | Peggy van Praagh told me that , even so early , de Valois had said to her ‘ I think he 'll make a choreographer ’ , but she was already trying out several other aspirants , so could not give him immediate chances . |
| 2 | Next morning , as I went to take in the milk , Mrs Rankin , our Burnfoot Avenue landlady greeted me . |
| 3 | David Lock sir excuse me . |
| 4 | But Britain 's Vice-Consul Harold Jenkins told me : ‘ Sadly it may be quite impossible for them to make positive identifications . ’ |
| 5 | I had invited any of the hospital staff who had cared to come , and my ‘ Dawes Road ’ friend Miss Dorrie Pierce told me that church folk had organized a little wedding tea , and my husband-to-be had ordered and paid for a wedding cake . |
| 6 | The manner in which the hand-lettered sign on the side attacked Senator Edward Kennedy told me more than enough about them . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , although I knew that there would be no Castello di Blandings awaiting me — Eric had always gone to great lengths to tell me that his family was not at all grand or well-off-I said yes . |
| 8 | Hugh de Tracy refused me his daughter as if I had less worth than the slave who cleans out the garderobe tunnel . |
| 9 | Will Resenence Jeopardy give me some kind of knowledge ? |
| 10 | Sir Hector Pittendrigh interviewed me . |
| 11 | Of this Miller writes , ‘ It grows naturally in the West Indies , whence the late Mr. Robert Miller sent me the seeds ’ , and it would seem likely that Ehret 's specimen had been raised at Chelsea . |
| 12 | Sir J. Franklin desires me to give his compliments — he is in very good health & hopes you are the same . ’ |
| 13 | Yet in the middle years of the Thatcher government , I recall Sir Geoffrey Howe telling me how impressed he was by the number of letters he was receiving , especially from young people , about the crisis in the third world . |
| 14 | George Cripps 's son wrote to the Yorkshire Post in October 1979 : ‘ The remarks of Mr J. McKenna make me smile when I remember some of the things which my father told me about the machinations by various members of the then Football League , which have certainly led me to believe that they were not so simon pure as the image they presented to the public . ’ |
| 15 | The excuse quoted by Mr Dick Palmer strikes me as being narrow-minded and insensitive , and to compare Manchester United and Arsenal football strips with the international logo for the Olympics is contemptible . |
| 16 | Listening to the hon. Member for Islington , South and Finsbury ( Mr. Smith ) saying that it was not the Government who had thought of the citizens charter but Mr. Herbert Morrison reminded me that old habits die hard — in particular , the old habit , much beloved of socialist Governments everywhere , of rewriting history . |
| 17 | At the first meeting in the department I did what every other Transport Minister appears to have done over the previous ten years : I hired Professor Sir Alec Cairncross to advise me . |
| 18 | One gentleman I ought to mention to you in this connection — my friend Mr. Michael Barry tells me — is the writer in ‘ Property and Finance ’ , which some of you may have read . |
| 19 | After the prize giving , Mr Andrew Satow , Major Rupert Lendrum , and Mr John Grant joined me in the car and we drove , still in torrential rain , to Heathrow Airport where we joined Lord and Lady Marchwood Baron de Montesquieu , and Mrs John Grant . |
| 20 | A boat returned me to the little coral landing-strip ; Friendly Islands Airways took me down to Tongatapu ; and within half a day I was settled in a small hotel in Auckland , waiting for the weekly Cathay Pacific jet home . |
| 21 | The current advert for the Washburn Mercury guitar revolts me to the very depths of my soul . |
| 22 | More than forty years later , the Cornish and De von Post put me in touch with one of the other boys from Black Rock , Stewart Barr-Hall , who confirmed that we were never in any kind of danger . |
| 23 | On her final day Barbara 's many friends gathered at 150 St Vincent Street to hear me — her last ‘ Secretary ’ - extol her many virtues . |
| 24 | The person I saw that morning in the sunny gallery of the Palacio de Anaya reminded me of James Dean , not so much in physical appearance , though they were alike in presenting the essence of a certain youthful American type of the period , as in an instant personal magnetism , a cocksure and irresistible sexual charm . |
| 25 | One of the tragedies to that it has now become so expensive but is very difficult but not because it was sponsored but somebody told me the other night that the Billy Connolly programme excuse me Billy Connolly programme about art and culture was |
| 26 | But strangely enough , St John Rivers found me crying as he approached the cottage . |
| 27 | Lord Mount Charles tells me : ‘ For a first-timer I got a good result . |
| 28 | And the wounds , sir — you bear them very well : the leg , Major General Lake told me , was very badly crushed . ’ |
| 29 | With the most impressive efficiency and a phone call to Tucson , the American Express Office in Avenida del Sol issued me with a fresh set after half an hour 's verification : necessary , Ian told me , because there are so many freeloaders who keep on going by selling their cheques and claiming they have been stolen . |
| 30 | I do n't think the woman in the New York Avis office believed me when I told her that I wanted to hire a convertible . |