Example sentences of "me from the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 As my bus drives up to ease me from the pitiful world outside , Clary waves , a week hand emerging from his dark shadow huddled from the cold .
2 It must have been there all the time , sitting motionless and staring straight at me from the far edge of the level area of the Grounds , but I had n't noticed it at first .
3 However — although these contortions saved me from the worse excesses of daily racism , my face kept giving me away .
4 He then heard my earnest indefatigable prayers and by a train of events the most impossible and unexpected released me from the cruel bondage in which the enemy of my soul had bound me .
5 Last time I had been to Paris they had rescued me from the freezing streets and hungry wolf packs . )
6 It was all to save me from the Fiery Pit .
7 Instead of being cosily tucked up in her bunk near the bar , she surprisingly came walking towards me from the sleeping car forward of Filmer 's , her diamonds lighting small bright fires with every step .
8 No , what I am looking at are the first direct signals to reach me from the dark constellation of Serafin .
9 I could tell that my father was looking at me from the other end of the table , swilling his juice round in his glass and staring at my head as I bent over my plate .
10 I love daytime television so when I saw Richard and Judy staring at me from the other channel I was quite pleased .
11 I could see I could see Li er Charlie and Pete looking at me from the other side of the room , Charlie smiled and I just did I just went like that , you know ?
12 Adventure Training put him in contact with me and after five days Bombardier Michael Goldsmith and a subaltern had come to see me from the Outer Hebrides with a view to offering an army vehicle .
13 All Leslie 's letters to me from the sealed camp at Fairford bore ( as well as the R.A.F. censor 's stamp ) undated postmarks .
14 There she is , in the other photograph , guileless and fervent , leaning forward across her desk , philosophizing away at me from the broad steppe of her Slavic soul .
15 I was thinking it would be nice to spend some time travelling with someone else , to share the strain but , as we entered the darkness which had me constantly glancing up to check the shadow of my bag , my only companion was the bearded , dark-eyed twin who stared back at me from the occluded window .
16 They remembered me from the old days . ’
17 Lindsay Kemp : ‘ David Bowie struck me from the very beginning as being very versatile and very ‘ up-front ’ and not in the least bit naîve .
18 This time she started to interrogate me from the very beginning .
19 ‘ But Ken was making it very clear to me from the very beginning that I was not going to get away with anything , ’ Pertwee told me .
20 And , ’ he went on before she could interrupt , ‘ you ca n't deny you were all over me from the very beginning .
21 The fly , which has settled on my forehead and reads to me from the Sixth Book of the Aeneid , is the same fly which buzzes round the head of Virgil in Mantua .
22 ( ‘ Your good influence and help has sometimes draw me from the enwrapping pleasure of scenes which before held me alone with them . ' )
23 Your good influence and help has sometimes drawn me from the enwrapping pleasure of scenes which before held me alone with them …
24 It has carried me from the comfortable Salisbury suburb where a kind Scottish family have made me a home , to a rough Bulawayo farmstead .
25 The first I knew about it was a massive gaoler dragging me from the Common side up to the turnkey 's lodge .
26 Gradually Elizabeth and I got to know each other ; Elizabeth already knew something of me from The Last Enchantments .
27 You still owe me from the last time .
28 He reported success with Yellow-root ( i.e. Hydrastis canadensis ) as it had ‘ flowered and ripened seeds in our garden , two years past , from some roots which were sent me from the inland parts of your country .
29 Why do you summon me from the dead lands ? ’
30 They remembered me from the previous year too .
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