Example sentences of "me [prep] the [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | I seem to remember being told that the latest policy is to turn water cannon on the nurses ; that does not strike me as the most helpful approach . |
| 2 | I 'd accept all that , just as I accepted her usually sharp-edged attitude to me during the nearly two years of our association . |
| 3 | This man , who was soon joined by three friends , reminded me of the woozily friendly Galway people I had known in Brighton in the late sixties and early seventies . |
| 4 | Evidence has been put before me of the most unusual arrangement come to , in relation to a possible ability of the parents to buy the property at half the sitting tenant valuation . |
| 5 | It 's a favourite because it reminds me of the most exciting part of political campaigning : the roadshow . |
| 6 | ‘ I feel it , when you tell me of the apparently acceptable behaviour amongst your contemporaries . ’ |
| 7 | Someone will probably tell me of the almost incredible persistence of the Karroo sandstones of southern and eastern Africa , or the Nubian sandstones across North Africa into the Middle East , or the Dakota Sandstone in the American West . |
| 8 | The scene before me reminded me of the very similar scenes in the Highland crofts , the only difference being the now almost overpowering smell of onions . |
| 9 | But I have met your brother at long last and Mrs Powers has been regaling me with the most fascinating pieces of village gossip . ’ |
| 10 | When we finished the tour , we ended up in the same place and he comes back to me with the most beautiful guitar I 've ever seen — handcrafted in under a month ! |
| 11 | Two weeks later , however , Michael Thomas scored his stunning last-minute Championship-winning goal at Anfield to provide me and thousands like me with the most intense moment of our lives . |
| 12 | In any case , it 's weird that whenever I say that to Keith , he looks at me with the unmistakably quizzical air of the tall thin intellectual he is , his hair on the blond side of chestnut ( now heavily greying ) ; his fair skin with his rosy cheeks reminding one of Victorian youths with perfect complexions ( or so the novels of Wilkie Collins and the paintings of the Pre-Raphaelites would have us believe ) ; his eyebrows bushy and deliberately unkempt ; his classic tweed suit of the old school , worn with a shamefully Byronic air somewhere between hippy and academic ; his accent public school , as befits his education , although he also speaks a passable Spanish , so we can keep switching languages whenever linguistic difficulties develop . |
| 13 | I intended the word liberal to mean ‘ free ’ , not as identifying me with the almost defunct Liberal Party of that epoch . |
| 14 | ‘ Now you are forcing me into the most obvious remark of the week : I only do what I want — within our poor human limits . |
| 15 | ‘ This got me into the very comfortable American hospital , where I was well pampered . |
| 16 | He totted up the number of points according to guidelines worked out by Denplan with categories from A to E. In my case , the extent of dental work meant I scored 158 points , putting me in the most expensive category , E. |
| 17 | One afternoon after tennis I was sitting on a drawing-room sofa at Bemersyde when Dawyck 's dog , a long black cocker spaniel called Wasp , came and nuzzled up against me in the most friendly manner . |
| 18 | This I did at once with a feeling of self-importance which blinded me to the now obvious fact that she was abrogating her responsibilities and allowing them to devolve , once more , upon her eldest daughter . |
| 19 | oh , I 've forgotten , you know my brain leaves me at the most important time , do n't forget to post that will you ? |