Example sentences of "[vb past] me [prep] my [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | In the interview they asked me about my future plans . |
| 2 | George Roman read me and after I 'd done the first reading he asked me about my own attitudes to the Part and then told me his as a director , which were completely different . |
| 3 | He then asked me about my sexual habits , to which I replied that I was heterosexual . |
| 4 | When I think of love or beauty or gardens , the images that moved me in my everyday life appear again and I feel the same sensations as when I first found them . |
| 5 | " My life was formed only by means of the public library which provided me with my only uncensored access to books . |
| 6 | ‘ He caught me on my right thigh , my left foot came down and I did the splits . |
| 7 | She writes : ‘ My time spent ‘ at the University of Oxford ’ broadened my outlook in many respects and this helped me with my academic studies and writing from then on' . |
| 8 | It helped me in my desperate attempt to respect his judgement . |
| 9 | This came as something of a surprise , for nothing Victor Saunders had told me about the Priut refuge quite prepared me for my first sight of this three-storey silver sausage — an amazing futuristic construction with a dining room that looks out on a wonderland of peaks , and with some four-bedded dormitories which , if you 're lucky enough to be allocated one , ensures a degree of comfort far different from alpine-style overcrowding . |
| 10 | Without blushing , he told me in my own drawing room : ‘ I am a financial adviser to both the Duke and Duchess . |
| 11 | The first questions which faced me after my own Worst Day were simple . |
| 12 | His son , Wilfred , a pupil-teacher at St. Martin 's , taught me during my first year in the Boys ' School . |
| 13 | ‘ You just barged in here , grabbed hold of one of my letters , then locked me in my own sitting-room . |
| 14 | And when I arrived in Lanyon 's house , I took the dose of the drug that returned me to my normal appearance . |
| 15 | ‘ Oh , it 's got nothing to do with business , ’ Alison replied with a laugh that ever so gently reprimanded me for my mercantile preoccupations . |
| 16 | ‘ She hit me with my own stick , doctor , ’ he whispered , displaying the scrapes and cuts received in his flying accident . |
| 17 | ‘ I was trying to save some of the Guinness for you , but she hit me with my own stick . |
| 18 | How did you feel when you saw me with my beautiful Oriental mistress ? ’ |
| 19 | A Glasgow friend , Tony Sykes , a great fisherman , at least he kept telling everyone he was , persuaded me against my better judgment to join him for a day 's salmon fishing on the River Ayr at Mauchline . |
| 20 | I detest the armoured , air-conditioned truck that deprived me of my final opportunity to desecrate the holy relic that is ‘ Guernica ’ . |
| 21 | The Coroner complimented me on my prompt reporting of the find , and after a short deliberation declared them not to be Treasure Trove and handed them back to me . |
| 22 | Someone complimented me on my beautiful baby , and I suppose that was when the idea came into my head . |
| 23 | I was glad to hear the accent , for it reminded me of my exciting days in Northern Ireland , recounted elsewhere . |
| 24 | As I escorted Marinka to the Oasis Arena in the torrential rain , the scene of mimose reminded me of my halcyon days at . |
| 25 | The smell of couscous and other grain which filled the air constantly reminded me of my own situation . |
| 26 | I was fond of her , she reminded me of my own kid back home . |
| 27 | Pat always reminded me of my own shape — a reasonably well proportioned figure but very heavy on the hips and thighs . |
| 28 | She sort of reminded me of my own grandmother , back in Vermont . ’ |
| 29 | It was projected by a thin young student at a concert where I was trying to do my performance , and it reminded me of my intentional projection of wrong words at the English Teacher when I was at school . |
| 30 | It was the latter who inspired me on my first day at the tech . |