Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] me [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Vagueness came to me with pregnancy . |
| 2 | Or , if someone came to me with arthritis of the fingers , I might ask him to ‘ think of your fingers lengthening ’ . |
| 3 | You came to me for help , remember ? |
| 4 | ‘ He came to me for help and those men murdered him ! |
| 5 | He came to me for stuff to forget all that . |
| 6 | Although I was still young , important people came to me for advice . |
| 7 | I was on the board of the bank then , and he came to me for advice about a takeover bid for his company . |
| 8 | The serpent god came to me in sleep and filled my belly . ’ |
| 9 | When he turned towards me at Dun Laoghaire , he looked the complete tearaway . |
| 10 | ‘ being a person on foot ’ This point is proved by the officer or traffic warden stating in evidence ‘ A man , I now know to be John Smith , stepped from the kerb on the south side of the road and walked towards me in contravention of my signal to him to stop etc . ’ |
| 11 | Well she walked she walked by me in town and if I did n't know her better I would n't know she were pregnant . |
| 12 | There arose within me without warning , and as if from a depth not of years but of centuries , the memory of that earlier morning at the Old House when my brother had brought his toy garden into the nursery . |
| 13 | ‘ He worked for me during university holidays . ’ |
| 14 | But I found them thoroughly disgraceful , all the same : aesthetically , they worked on me like violence . |
| 15 | But strangest of all , his coat , particularly the light fur round his neck , smelled to me of cardamom — not lanolin , not the sweet spring grass of northern California , not the yellow dust of a hot dry trail , but cardamom . |
| 16 | Mum looked after me at home . |
| 17 | Sometimes , when drunk , he would regale me with stories of his footballing prowess , but such stories went past me like galley smoke because I could not bring myself to enquire , nor indeed to care , about the differences between a Tight End and a flea-flicker . |
| 18 | last week , they went past me in car , they were pipping and they were both together , she were driving . |
| 19 | When my Noble Friend was kind enough to say that he looked to me for help as being I think he said an ornament on the front bench , was n't quite certain whether that was supposed to be a compliment or not , but I thought an ornament or something that you that sat upon a er er er er er upon a shelf and looked pretty , but did n't actually do anything . |
| 20 | Here houses looked to me like Monopoly chips : seeing a man cycling over the pathless tundra I scanned hopelessly for a possible point of reference he might have . |
| 21 | Patterson listened to me in silence , then said , ‘ I just do n't believe it , ’ a couple of times to himself . |
| 22 | He took off the headset and stared at me with rage . |
| 23 | He stared at me in surprise . |
| 24 | Teddy looked at me with horror . |
| 25 | She looked at me with pity and something like disbelief . |
| 26 | And then she started on a list of all my illnesses , accidents and crimes , while everybody except Joe looked at me with disgust . |
| 27 | He looked at me with joy . |
| 28 | He looked at me with amusement . |
| 29 | Michael looked at me with compassion . |
| 30 | He looked at me with disbelief . |