Example sentences of "[vb past] me [prep] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | you met me with an exalted smile |
| 2 | ‘ Next ! ’ she plainsonged and fixed me with an old-fashioned look from behind her lorgnette . |
| 3 | Nour drew me as an English Miss : Ingleesy , prim , uneducated , unsophisticated . |
| 4 | My father told me of an old lady who to the end of her days referred to ‘ Amser Duw ac amser Lloyd George , ’ God 's time and Lloyd George 's time , for when the change was introduced during the Great War , there was chaos . |
| 5 | After two weeks with no sign of improvement , a friend told me of an excellent new rheumatologist who had just come to work in Chester . |
| 6 | He told me about an old school behind a high wall in a dirty street . |
| 7 | Lissa 's money gave out , and she told me over an international phone hook-up that she was n't interested any more . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'll definitely stick to wearing them in the future , ’ he told me in an exclusive interview . |
| 9 | ‘ People were hugging and kissing each other as my car powered its way to the finish as they joined me in an early celebration . |
| 10 | It was confusing : such self-attention repelled me , and yet it represented a world of sensuality , of smell and touch , of indulgence and feeling , which aroused me like an unexpected caress as I undressed , lit the candles and got into the bath in this room of Eva 's . |
| 11 | Many women admired my strength and the men , slightly awed , treated me as an honorary male . |
| 12 | When I moved in to my flat she had to a certain extent taken me over , and treated me like an erring and somewhat unintelligent son who obviously needed the care and attention of a responsible adult . |
| 13 | They took me to an enormous wall built of Pelasgian blocks . |
| 14 | The patterning of fine wrinkles reminded me of an aerial photo of Easter Island . |
| 15 | I walked down to the town centre , which reminded me of an English country town , with shops of every kind . |
| 16 | The Old Gang Smelting Mills reminded me of an old deserted coal pit I played around as a child . |
| 17 | They always reminded me of an angry boar 's , small , red-rimmed and vicious — and that 's when he was in a good mood ! |
| 18 | Paintings erm have the power to take you back in time , I can look at a painting and remember something that 's happened yesterday or years and years ago and as a small child , looking at this painting I remembered as a small child seeing for the first time erm the sea dipping into er , sorry the sun dipping into , into the sea and being horrified I was convinced that the heat of the sun would boil the oceans and the world dry and it reminded me for an awful lot of my childhood and I 'm sure if I 'd seen this painting years ago it would of persuaded me otherwise , erm this is called In A Days Work Satisfaction in a days work , chosen not given , eating the laxed food , face turned to steer a sun , making cloth into a gown and giving colour to the side of a boat |
| 19 | Lily 's father presented me with an old pistol he had . |
| 20 | Someone also presented me with an electric washer but I have never been able to use it because there is n't water in the house and I would n't be able to understand it anyway . |
| 21 | I climbed into my paper nightie and was helped on to a narrow trolley by a second Farrah Fawcett blow-up doll ( but punctured ) , then gazed adoringly up the nose of a Greek god as he wheeled me into an open lift and down to the basement operating theatre to a waiting : ‘ Hi , I 'm Andy , your anaesthesiologist . ’ |
| 22 | When Suor Eusebia saw me she greeted me with an approving smile . |
| 23 | Struck me as an able lad indeed . ’ |
| 24 | It struck me as an intelligent and fair system which had the merit of being open and above-board and easily comprehensible . |
| 25 | I am greatly indebted to the personal efforts of Stanley Turner , who very kindly supplied me with an ample selection of prints as well as many of the obscure details of Peto 's life . |