Example sentences of "of [noun] [vb past] me [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Easy — a stroke of genius hit me at the height of the bombing , General . |
| 2 | I endeavoured to paint a picture of this scene , but again and again legions of midges drove me from the spot : I got a phial of essence supposed to keep them away , but alas ! in vain . |
| 3 | I loved it when a whole pile of notes met me in the morning and I did not surface till lunchtime . |
| 4 | Another couple of lads joined me at Middlesbrough station and off we went to be gentlemen 's gentlemen . |
| 5 | As I escorted Marinka to the Oasis Arena in the torrential rain , the scene of mimose reminded me of my halcyon days at . |
| 6 | Thinking of Bonanza got me on trying to figure his reaction if Vecchi got hooked for the Mahoney killing . |
| 7 | I hoped that the off-licence opened soon because the journey to Dover could only be improved by getting drunk ; besides , a few cans of lager helped me through the morning pretty well , and killed off hunger till late afternoon . |
| 8 | I had completely forgotten Karen until her squeal of laughter reminded me of the answer to Alison 's question . |
| 9 | SEEING THE ARTICLE on the ‘ 109 in the July issue of FlyPast reminded me of the first time I saw it . |
| 10 | The prospect of entering the world of naturism filled me with dread . |
| 11 | This was the first time I 'd been into a prison and a number of things struck me during the day . |
| 12 | A lot of things reminded me of pricks when I was sixteen . |
| 13 | This queer way of writing filled me with foreboding , because it seemed to indicate a cold , self-centred nature , the reverse of the outgoing geniality he displayed to one and all . |
| 14 | The mention of Frankenstein stopped me in mid-thought . |
| 15 | March , the Secretary of State told me in a parliamentary answer that he was setting in train a new procedure for the appointment of a successor to Eric Bolton . |
| 16 | I thought them extraordinary Performances for a Girl of her Age , and one that had so little Advantage ( or rather none at all ) either from Books or Conversation : But my bad State of Health prevented me from making any further Enquiry concerning this young Genius , till about fourteen Months before her Death , when I was first inform 'd she had wrote a Tragedy . |
| 17 | ‘ It speaks for all of us intellectuals , but will upset some people ’ , one class of students told me during a ‘ Heshang ’ discussion . |
| 18 | The blast from a phalanx of heaters struck me on opening the door . |
| 19 | The spectacle last week of 400 officers in riot gear running round the Broadwater Farm Estate and finding little or nothing in the way of drugs reminded me of Sir Robert Mark 's definition of a good police force as one which employed fewer criminals than it caught . |
| 20 | He paid one of them £300 ‘ who , because I employed another to fit up my last room , out of pique arrested me for the balance . ’ |