Example sentences of "me [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's exactly what happened to me , three years ago , when the largest company in the United Kingdom , British Petroleum , took me on to run a new venture . |
| 2 | ‘ He really turned me on to geography . |
| 3 | The revelations of evil that I had experienced had brought me only to confusion and powerlessness . |
| 4 | Such ruthless honesty certainly cuts me down to size , ’ he said idly . |
| 5 | Well my other car is a nineteen twenty nine V six Bentley , which will do a hundred mile an hour , so if I drive them alternately it cuts me down to size . |
| 6 | ‘ Alcohol did me the greatest favour , which is that it brought me down to earth . |
| 7 | ‘ Perhaps you could help Cook to wash up , ’ she suggested , bringing me down to earth with a bang . |
| 8 | ( 19 ) The whisky helped me not to stagger under the blow . |
| 9 | The old lady made me jump when she told me not to stare but to sit down and not be nervous . |
| 10 | ‘ Well , they wheeled me over to Ophthalmology so she could have a good look , ’ Faye told him . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's funny you should say that , ’ said Miss Mack 's Solicitor , from a resumed recumbent position , rather dreading his appearance as No. 11 in boots too small for him , ‘ because an uncle by marriage of mine took me once to tea with some cousin of his who had been a county cricketer and this county chap said middle and leg was best because it gave you room to cut . ’ |
| 12 | Afterwards ( another former Lancaster student ) invited me home to tea , and in the evening , and I were entertained at home by |
| 13 | Mrs Fraser once packed me off to bed as I was groggy with summer flu , and the four lads with me were sent off to do Ben Tee on their own — a perfect challenge for their particular hill experience at the time . |
| 14 | Ms Fiona Reynolds of the Council for National Parks has kept me up to date with the progress of the EEC 's Agricultural Structures Review . |
| 15 | But there are a lot of Street addicts around who are happy to bring me up to date with the story when I get back . |
| 16 | Some of the people I interviewed became informants , who kept me up to date on those phases of West End life with which they were familiar . |
| 17 | Care to bring me up to date , anyone ? ’ |
| 18 | Connors brought me up to date on his opinion of the guys in the car as I rolled the heap round the first intersection . |
| 19 | The guy across the road keeps me up to date with what is going on , and I have got to know his family quite well . |
| 20 | It keeps me up to date on Third World and development subjects |
| 21 | ‘ Ken Harris has promised to keep me up to date with the press briefings … ’ she began . |
| 22 | I just want to say a big THANK YOU to the organisers and correspondents for keeping me up to date with the progress of THE WHITES this season . |
| 23 | Just my personal assistant bringing me up to date on some business matters , ’ he added dismissively as he walked over to the other side of the bed , picking up his slim gold watch from a small table . |
| 24 | Yeah she sent me up to bed . |
| 25 | That takes me up to Easter . |
| 26 | ‘ Like I said , ’ he explained , ‘ after those last months in Sweden , the Ruskis made me up to Captain . |
| 27 | I did n't begin to feel again until anger kissed me back to life at the inquest . |
| 28 | ‘ It was because you brought me back to life . |
| 29 | Are you regretting that you ever brought me back to life , Pygmalion ? |
| 30 | Marius dragged me back to camp and afterwards I told the other legionnaires how she had wanted to sleep with me , but I had turned her down . |