Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] me the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So while his real need for me had something to do with prac-ticalities , he reinforced in me the sense that his need had something to do with his sister 's death . |
| 2 | He described to me the glen in a storm — the darkness that mantles it , the springing into life of untold hosts of runlets , the careering in mad fury of the burns as they break through and tower above the channel wherein they are wont to flow ; the showers , the careering of the clouds , the thunderings and the lightning-flashings , and the artillery of the winds , as the air-gusts meet the peaks and explode in the hollows of the darksome corries . |
| 3 | Written as a result of attending a Labour Party conference , it was the product of shock at what then seemed to me the amount of time and energy politicians and journalists spent chasing each other 's tails on such occasions . |
| 4 | But George was a born Canadian and knew no more about China than I did ; he shared with me the wish and determination to visit China , which seemed to us to be a land of fabulous culture . |
| 5 | He urged on me the need to embark on a full-sized book , and to send him a synopsis as soon as possible . |
| 6 | He hinted to me the week before the event that he would n't mind a rest one day and I thought about that and thought about it again when we got to The Belfry . |
| 7 | It died for me the moment I found Mason in her bed . ’ |
| 8 | Hardly had I uttered the word — or the phrase signifying it — than I felt within me the need to become what I had been accused of being … . |
| 9 | I clutched to me the note I had written to Sylvia Grey . |
| 10 | They stood and stared at me the man with a vague anger , it seemed , the girl expressionlessly . |
| 11 | ‘ Later , my mother told me of her terrible foreboding that she had about me the day we made that first daylight raid on Berlin . |
| 12 | ‘ The Lord said to me the day before , ‘ You 're not going to make it out of your heat tomorrow ’ . |
| 13 | I groped behind me the chair . |
| 14 | " During one of these fits , " he later recalled , " while again considering the problem of the origin of species there suddenly flashed upon me the idea of the survival of the fittest . " |
| 15 | I was a fool but nobody impressed on me the need to save . |