Example sentences of "[to-vb] me [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At my weekend surgery three pensioners came to see me in considerable distress because of the difficulty that they faced in paying their water and electricity bills and other bills from private utilities following the large price increases . |
| 2 | Watching Maureen feed very small birds who were unable to do it for themselves was to stand me in good stead later , when I began breeding barn owls . |
| 3 | I 've experienced more now , and it 's going to stand me in good stead . |
| 4 | ‘ I can not allow any man to accuse me of bad behaviour ! ’ she cried . |
| 5 | Could I have honestly earned enough to have subsisted upon , to find me in proper food and clothing , such as is necessary , I should not have gone astray … |
| 6 | As I passed the hall in a large comprehensive school , where notices proclaimed ‘ Quiet please : examination in progress ’ , the invigilator , a geography teacher , staggered out to engage me in slurred discussion of educational issues . |
| 7 | He was a dairyman , only he used to keep just one or two cows and he used to help me with spare time . |
| 8 | ‘ You have come to challenge me in mortal combat . ’ |
| 9 | Fixing me with a beady eye as soon as I had sat down , she leaned over to damn me with faint praise . |
| 10 | Dear Rothenstein , Now that the Mexican president has provided you with the beak and talons of an Aztec eagle you may perhaps feel better equipped to face me in open contest . |
| 11 | Several people have been er kind enough to remind me as General Secretary , and other people , that we 're all expendable . |
| 12 | Without any preamble , except the customary offer of a cup of tea which I declined , the Inspector began to take me in painstaking detail through my account of my discovery of Froggy 's body . |
| 13 | So it was something in my subconscious trying to push me from infantile dependency to maturation that brought it about that , in the dream , I could not find the inn again . |
| 14 | So I write that down because that 's going to involve me in extra work at the end of the month . |
| 15 | She kept phoning me up to tell me about Crowded House tickets and that she could n't get any . |