Example sentences of "the [noun] [noun] [verb] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | But no amount of reading from the prayer book gave me the comfort I sought . |
| 2 | The princess sang along with old favourites such as The Streets Of London and My Liverpool Home — plus the hospice hymn Give Me Oil For My Lamp . |
| 3 | The LA police told me this . |
| 4 | Having once negotiated the hurdle of the initial course it was not so difficult to persuade those who held the money bags to allow me to fly the aircraft every six months or so to maintain some sort of standard in flying up-to-date jet transports . |
| 5 | ‘ It was the money grandfather promised me I was worried about . |
| 6 | And if you think I 'm going to bail Sleet out with the money Francis left me when you ca n't even be bothered to learn the most basic elements of running an estate then you 're mistaken . ’ |
| 7 | Your article on hedgehogs in the March issue reminded me of an incident last summer . |
| 8 | Somehow , I never found my way back to Porthford until this week , when the March winds blew me in a letter from Ilsa . |
| 9 | However , a more careful analysis of methods of work and recreation in the Easter vac helped me to overcome these problems and be more in charge of myself , rather than being tossed about at random . |
| 10 | Can any of you who are meeting up for the spurs game do me a favour , please ? |
| 11 | The softness of the Schmincke pastels allowed me to work confidently in this way , knowing that no matter how subtle the marks , they would clearly show . |
| 12 | Richard Holmes of the Sheffield YMCA told me about the background to the game . |
| 13 | The peace and tranquility of the Norfolk countryside make me realise how fortunate we are , and all the more conscious of the trials and sorrows that so many people are suffering both in this country and around the world . |
| 14 | Oh , well that the money that I found out my pocket and the payment granny gave me . |
| 15 | The Mandarin Group offered me a package I could n't refuse . ’ |
| 16 | It was still quite dark , and so I flicked the light switch to aid me getting dressed . |
| 17 | ‘ People have said the fans hero worship me but I do n't like that term , ’ he says in his customary blunt tones . |
| 18 | ‘ The kids love having me here , they wish I could be here all the time . |
| 19 | The shooting schedule tells me they are night shooting at Tempelhof . |
| 20 | The Brigade Major informed me that the Brigadier 's party would be in the restaurant for at least one-and-a-half hours , which gives me time to look around the town . |
| 21 | The underwear Max wanted me to wear could n't be more different from my own taste . |
| 22 | The plot Geoff gave me , roughly 40ft by 20ft , was to be transformed into a garden within a single run of the Gardeners ' World programmes ! |
| 23 | The management rep told me he 'd even heard whispers of sympathetic action among the statistical clerks . |
| 24 | Everyone and everything about the Medau Society gives me a special and warm feeling . |
| 25 | The Home Secretary told me in an answer to a written question recently that he has no plans to remove young people from the penal system . |
| 26 | The geezer at the recruiting office told me to fuck off . |
| 27 | Draft a letter to my council , Nicholas , notifying them that I have already had the news of the action at Pilleth , and asking them to send out orders for the knights and squires of all the midland counties to meet me at Lichfield , fully prepared , mounted and arrayed for war , by the seventh day of July . |
| 28 | Yet the Winter Olympics left me entirely unmoved and uninterested . |
| 29 | He thought to himself , right , you 've called the boy Hilbert to please me , to make me like him , so I damn well will like him , I 'll like him more than you and leave him the place over your head . ’ |
| 30 | If only Clive Rice had not been dropped by South Africa , maybe I could have persuaded the England selectors to give me a chance … |