Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [prep] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a document that has conveniently been leaked to me , the hon. Gentleman , without any hesitation , contradicts the words of the hon. Member for Blackburn ( Mr. Straw ) in ’ Raising the Standard ’ . |
| 2 | Different qualities and complexes of qualities are registered by me in a temporally extended sequence ; none the less , they are all part of the wider experience of looking at this same bunch of flowers which I assume to exist " out there " . |
| 3 | Had General Francis not had his two sticks propped against his chair as a tangible reminder of his condition , and had he not , as had now been explained to me , been making this social call to thank me for nursing his son after paying a second professional visit himself to Bernard Remington-Hart , his appearance and that Rolls outside would have frozen Margaret into a prissy caricature of her normal self . |
| 4 | Why this ceremony has to take place so early in the morning has never been explained to me , but it appears to be as essential a part of the nuptials as the Hindi movie music the night before . |
| 5 | And what has been arranged for me ? , |
| 6 | I was surprised , therefore , to discover that quite a busy programme had been arranged for me . |
| 7 | It has not often been given to me as a poet , it is perhaps not often given to human beings , to find such ready sympathy , such wit and judgment together . |
| 8 | Well , they were expensive if you had to buy them but they had been given to me , along with a pair of golf shoes , by the Italian company which supplied Jack . |
| 9 | That is not the advice that has been given to me . |
| 10 | Well I gave him all the information that had been given to me and we discussed between us various options that were open to us . |
| 11 | If Sombro had been referred to me at one of my clinics in England , the problem would have been easy to diagnose and the treatment straightforward . |
| 12 | Often members of my slimming classes have been referred to me by their doctors , anxious for their patients to reduce their weight and so help reduce their blood pressure . |
| 13 | Certain issues are treasured by me , especially those mentioning where illustrator 's material can be purchased . |
| 14 | Certain issues are treasured by me , especially those mentioning where illustrator 's material can be purchased . |
| 15 | Eventually , on 11 February 1992 the appeal was transferred to the High Court in London where the matter has been listed before me today , 17 February 1992 . |
| 16 | When I read Mary Gordon 's Final Payments a few years ago I shuddered with relief at having broken the spell of what had been wished on me . |
| 17 | ‘ You have been recommended to me , ’ Corbett answered brusquely . |
| 18 | He want 's us to do it , apparently he 's been recommended to me , I |
| 19 | ‘ If other men are attracted to me , then they 're attracted to more of me than you are because they see more of me . |
| 20 | For some unknown reason I thought my chute must have been torn off me while I was getting out of my kite , and almost gave up making any further efforts to save myself . |
| 21 | Argument has been addressed to me as to how that sum should fall to be represented in the damages awarded , bearing in mind that it has been substantially discharged by an interim payment and that it will not inure to any log term benefit of the plaintiff . |
| 22 | I feel a heavy burden has been lifted from me . |
| 23 | That tray had just been prepared for me personally by the cook ! |
| 24 | No one could accuse me of delaying consideration of allegations of miscarriage of justice when they have been presented to me . |
| 25 | I also want to put right it , er the facts that have been presented to me , that it 's an urban erm view , it 's city people making a er , their will , imposing their will on country folk , on the practices of country folk . |
| 26 | That 's a cruel thing to say , but it 's been done to me often enough in the past : you find yourself saying ordinary things and the person next to you is suddenly being witty . |
| 27 | I have so looked forward to it , making all the things with Matey , and thinking of what we shall do with the money we make — which is stupid really , when I know that I could so easily give them so much more — But that would be nothing , for what I have done with Matey has been done by me , and not by Papa , for that is what giving them his money would mean . |
| 28 | I felt that some dreadful punishment had been visited upon me , punishment for a crime which I had never committed . |
| 29 | How ridiculous to think that these plays had been thrust at me when I was ten ! |
| 30 | In my groin there are twitchy , random jolts like the shorting of a fuse , as though a spatula has been thrust into me and wrapped around my uterus like a corkscrew . |