Example sentences of "[vb base] me [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hasty note , the spluttering pen , the exasperated correction , the careful clerkly hand , the grandiloquent flourish , the obsequious subscription , the torn seal , the glint of sand still held in the writing from the hand that strewed it centuries ago — all these and much else bring me into close company with the past , more than the rooms in which men sat , the streets they walked , the clothes they wore or the trinkets that adorned them . |
| 2 | ‘ Lots of people at school have commented on it and now associate me with Tory party propaganda . |
| 3 | It spat a worrisome mixture of steam and flame out periodically and covered the bottom of the pans with black ooze , a treacly goo that got itself on to my pile jacket and put me in good humour for an hour or so . |
| 4 | If that power was sufficient , the holy spirit , if that power was sufficient to raise Christ from the dead , you not think he 's able to exert that power in your life and in my life to make us live lives that are pleasing to God , of course it is so we do n't do it ourselves , just let me in closing mention one other thing , this relationship we have needs to be maintained , you know for any relationship to grow , one needs to spend time with the other person , I do n't give a lot of credence to the saying that absence makes the heart grow fonder , it does with somebody else , it 's true , it does not make it grow fonder of that person the person is you know who you , you heard this story so often , like particularly like going back during the last war , folk who were separated sometimes for , for , not just for months but for several years , there they were in concentration camps perhaps , in prisoner of war camps , separated for years , they come back home they 've got to get to know each other all over again you see that a relationship on a human level as well as in our relationship with God is dependent on , on association , it 's dependent on companionship , it 's dependent on spending time with the other person and in our relationship with Christ this is achieved by , by prayer , by knowing and understanding God 's word , by having fellowship with other Christians and fellowship with other Christians is not just meeting them and passing the time of day with them , oh that 's fellowship but it 's far more than that is required , there 's the fellowship in worship , we worship together , of course I can worship God at home of course I can do it , so can you do it and we , we should do it , but there 's that re , there 's that need , that requirement as God 's people we come together to worship him in a corporate act , in the sacraments , in , as we mentioned in , in earlier on in taking the bread and the wine and remembering the lords death , there 's a sense in which I can do it by myself |
| 5 | By your expression , I judge that you suspect me of pseudo-intellectual flim-flam and it is undeniable that our deliberations tended more towards the sybaritic than the Socratic . |
| 6 | ‘ You recall me to common sense and my duties , McAllister . |
| 7 | Both the men in expensive suits meet me on big-suited territory . |
| 8 | They 're so much more satisfactorily final and distinguished than weddings ; and christenings always fill me with great unease and pessimism and I do n't like sugared almonds . ’ |
| 9 | The august length of the Champs Elysées culminating in the sublime Arc de Triomphe with the eternal flame burning beneath it could not but fill me with reverential awe . |
| 10 | You either win me in fair competition , or you do n't have me at all , and there 's my last word o n't . " |
| 11 | You keep me in hot water all the time … |
| 12 | ‘ You accuse me of underhand dealing , of using dubious methods to get what I want ? |
| 13 | Not once did EMF lose their tempers at my teasing or threaten me with physical violence . |
| 14 | There are a number of issues which still concern me about continuing education for students with disabilities , just as they did when I entered college life — for example , the fear and ignorance that often surrounds this seemingly homogeneous condition known as ‘ disability ’ , and the unmitigated prejudice and stereotyping of people who do not ‘ fit ’ into a mythical category commonly known as ‘ normal ’ . |
| 15 | I have five children and not much money and not one of them has gone wrong and they all treat me with great respect . |
| 16 | The day they come to the door and denounce me in fluent Anglo-Saxon for a Scarlet Woman , then I 'll think about it . ’ |