Example sentences of "appeared [prep] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly a huge , hairy , knuckled hand bearing a diamond pinkie ring and a fiver appeared between me and my sewing . |
| 2 | Then get to the Out Patients Laboratory with this — ’ She paused as a police-sergeant appeared behind me . |
| 3 | Father appeared above me on the top step and I wrenched myself out of the man 's nasty fingers . |
| 4 | Then there was a rustle of leaves and Joe 's face appeared above me . |
| 5 | Suddenly , a motor cycle appeared beside me , and a state patrolman showed his head in the window . |
| 6 | At that moment the door of the old castle opened and De Gautet appeared beside me . |
| 7 | Suddenly a devil appeared beside me , with red hands and feet and a head as bald as a pig . |
| 8 | Since I knew that I was to have the privilege of addressing this seminar , I have studied with great textual care the document issued by the federation under the title Dear Fellow Citizen because it appeared to me that it was ‘ the brief ’ for what I was to say to you . |
| 9 | But they appeared to me as if seen through the wrong end of a telescope , muted and unreal . |
| 10 | So I felt inexpressible gratitude to you for giving me the support and care of that relationship , however attenuated it appeared to me at times : |
| 11 | ‘ And it appeared to me that Casey had n't even picked up what he had said . |
| 12 | The formality of the dining-room furnishings seemed at first to change his mood from ease to starch , but it appeared to me after a short while that he was troubled rather by indecision as to which side I was now on , them or us . |
| 13 | It was a Spirit of a wolf that appeared to me . |
| 14 | The reply given by Mrs. Bottomley centred around trade barriers not being acceptable and the answer appeared to me to contradict the action taken by America where President Bush has stated that Japanese imports are to be restricted . |
| 15 | It appeared to me that the only thing he had never mastered was paper hanging . |
| 16 | It was then that I decided to help myself , so I went along to the local college and enrolled in what appeared to me to be ‘ a way to relax ’ — the Alexander Technique . |
| 17 | I saw a Mummy examined that had been embalmed for 2,000 years ; the embalmer had taken out all the Viscera of the head , Thorax and Abdomen and cut all the flesh off the bones , and the cavities of the Thorax & Abdomen were filled up with Tar , Pitch & c and the form of the leg , Thigh & c were altogether made up of linen Rags dipp 'd in Tar , Pitch , & c so that I have an Opinion that they were allow 'd to carry the dead Body home by pretending to embalm it to preserve the Flesh & c , but you see they either buried or burnt the Flesh : this art always ‘ till lately appeared to me ridiculous as I know how soon putrefaction took place after Death ; since that time I have often thought it would be pleasing if we could fall upon a method of preserving dead Bodies & I thought that mankind in general would wish to have the Bodies of their Friends & c Preserved . |
| 18 | Although I was still ‘ tiny ’ ( a word used by one of them at the time ) by any normal standards , when I looked in the mirror , I saw someone who appeared to me to be ‘ gross ’ — a favourite word with anorexics , as Minuchin shows . |
| 19 | it appeared to me little short of a miracle that a hard , matter-of-fact scientist should have been able to establish a real friendship with wild , freeliving animals , and the realisation of this fact made me feel … as though man 's expulsion from the Garden of Eden had thereby lost some of its bitterness . |
| 20 | It appeared to me that an aircraft accident investigation was fundamentally similar to any other type of inquiry , whether legal or scientific : it should establish the relevant facts , discuss the evidence and draw conclusions . |
| 21 | In 1959 I started to take an interest in flight data recorders and it appeared to me that they ought to be fitted to large public transport aircraft as a legal requirement . |
| 22 | Thus , while the basic living conditions were markedly better than I had expected , it has to be recorded that the ‘ psychological ’ character of the institution ( as , I suspect , in most prisons in India ) appeared to me harsh , negative and even cruel . |
| 23 | Cobbett indicates that , at least in Kent , the working class was not yet reconciled to exchanging a cottage on earth for a mansion in heaven : ‘ they appeared to me to be thinking much more about getting houses for themselves in this world first : just to see a little before they entered , or endeavoured to enter , or even thought much about , those ‘ houses ’ of which the parson was speaking ; houses with pig-styes and little snug gardens attached to them , together with all the other domestic and conjugal circumstances . ’ |
| 24 | It appeared to me to be necessary that we should set out our agreed recommendations in some separate document . |
| 25 | It appeared to me that the quest for publicity could do nothing but harm , so long as we were certain , as indeed we made sure , that all the disabled knew of the facility and used it if they so desired . |
| 26 | When crossing by boat from West Loch Tarbert to Port Ellen on one of my early Journeys to Islay I was talking with an elderly minister who was coming to visit a crofter brother who was ill , and during our conversation said that it appeared to me that for a small island with a population of about four thousand it had produced an unusually large proportion of ministers , ship captains , marine engineers and doctors and asked him why he thought that was so . |
| 27 | ‘ One day , one happy day You appeared to me , And ever since that day I 've lived in trembling — Trembling with an unknown love , With a love like the heartbeat of the world , Mysterious and haughty , Both torment and bliss in my heart … . ’ |
| 28 | Having studied the text and read critical appreciations of it , my natural reaction to Satan is still the same as it was when he first appeared to me . |
| 29 | They appeared to me to be as committed as ever to winning that particular dispute and I 'm sure you would wish to send your further best wishes to them colleagues . |
| 30 | As some of Mr. Gould 's descriptions appeared to me brief , I have enlarged them , but have always endeavoured to retain his specific character ; so that , by this means , I trust I shall not throw any obscurity on what he considers the essential character in each case ; but at the same time , I hope , that these additional remarks may render the work more complete . |