Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] me [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My first bike was a Hercules , which Grandma got for me from a niece of hers . |
| 2 | Yeah he mentioned to me about a month ago well I think it was at Christmas , it was probably at Christmas time |
| 3 | Much more cogent reasons for Ms Brown 's correct conviction are to be found in Lady Diana 's own words , which I quote from Philip Ziegler 's biography and which amply confirms others , just as forceful , that she used to me in the course of our more than 40 years of close friendship : I never responded to his dribbling , dwarfish little amorous singeries . |
| 4 | This is another of Nic Picot 's tricks which he tried on me in the pub outside the Magic Circle . |
| 5 | It never occurred to me for a moment that she had planned it all in cold blood . ’ |
| 6 | It occurred to me for the first time that he might not know whether or not I 'd lost the baby . |
| 7 | I accepted this as natural ; it never occurred to me at the time that a housemaster could also be a friend . |
| 8 | ‘ It occurred to me at the time , ’ said Ian carefully , thinking that two could play at infant teaching , ‘ that it was candlelight , not , that is to say ’ — he managed contempt in his tone with no effort at all — ‘ electric light . ’ |
| 9 | The coy attitude with which the Press still view this and other sexual matters is illustrated by the experience recounted to me by a well-known columnist . |
| 10 | Liz , the receptionist , peered at me over the top of her pink-rimmed spectacles . |
| 11 | His dark eyes flickered at me like a long sooty flame , then he looked down again . |
| 12 | The sun crept towards me over the red tiles . |
| 13 | I I went to Dolgarrog came for me with a car and Mr could n't be there . |
| 14 | She came with me for no reason at all , whereas it would have taken quite a few other PCs to shift her . |
| 15 | And she ended up spending , it was the best part of the day with me and she came with me to a couple of meetings I went to . |
| 16 | Arthur Cook , a friend of mine who lived in The Friary , came with me to the allotment and after a while I suppose we became bored — we were only seven . |
| 17 | The next morning he came with me to the station , and as we waited for the train , we watched the crowds . |
| 18 | After a word with his clerks , Henniker came with me into the other room . |
| 19 | ‘ It came from me in the first place , did n't it ? |
| 20 | The major attention then was focused on Vietnam and there were very few people covering Cambodia , which also appealed to me as a journalist . ’ |
| 21 | A chubby young man called Laird Cregar appealed to me as a suspect , if only because he had the habit of being seen loitering around places where beautiful women had just been strangled . |
| 22 | It came to me as a gift , a little black-faced lamb sent to me by the Batesons who were farming Briscoe at the time . |
| 23 | and then he came to me as a last hope |
| 24 | I can actually recall a press release which came to me about a a principal tourism officer who had just been appointed to be the head , you know the president for the year of his professional body , and in his own town a press release was put out in which his name was incorrectly spelt , and the conference at which he was about to be invested was actually taking , and I blush to say that it was in Brighton , I can only tell you when I got that press release I did what I frequently do , which is outline in highlighter the mistakes on the press release , put it back into the envelope and send it back to the relevant officer . |
| 25 | ‘ I used to rehearse what I 'd say to my students if they came to me with a problem like this , ’ said William , ‘ but no one ever did . |
| 26 | We carried on a rather halting conversation and it came to me with a bump that my mind had been forced on to different tracks since I had left her . |
| 27 | He was a highly educated gentleman , a very well known Varsity athlete , but he came to me with a bad report that he was completely and utterly clueless about some of the finer points of simple take-off and landing procedures . |
| 28 | My Pop came to me with an old Army pistol in his hand , knelt beside me and said , ‘ If you want me to kill him , I will . |
| 29 | When he initially came to me with the novel , I thought , ‘ Victor 's a Rasta , it 's going to be something about Haile Selassie . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ The composer came to me with the piece , which had written with me in mind , ’ says Lin . |