Example sentences of "me [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Within two or three days of John Salako flying out to California for his knee operation , he had me for company on the same ward . |
| 2 | ‘ You 're asking me for secrets of the confessional . ’ |
| 3 | Although the first step can be steroid injections , my GP referred me for surgery at Wanstead Hospital , south London . |
| 4 | When my Noble Friend was kind enough to say that he looked to me for help as being I think he said an ornament on the front bench , was n't quite certain whether that was supposed to be a compliment or not , but I thought an ornament or something that you that sat upon a er er er er er upon a shelf and looked pretty , but did n't actually do anything . |
| 5 | They had come to me for help in extricating themselves from satanism because the high priest had insisted on performing the ‘ Act of Unity ’ with their fourteen-year-old daughter . |
| 6 | Two or three years ago a friend of mine who is a publisher applied to me for help in dealing with a complaint from a man who had bought one of his cookery books . |
| 7 | I have this kitchen full of people , all looking to me for instructions like it was me who organized this . |
| 8 | I remember at the conclusion of a church house-party , a man asking me for prayer to be filled with the Spirit . |
| 9 | Will you and Dr Watson join me for lunch at my hotel in two hours ’ time ? |
| 10 | ‘ When I returned to England , ’ he continued , ‘ I asked Bishop Thomas to recommend me for ordination to the priesthood . |
| 11 | He took to it like a duck to water and from then on he 'd grill me for hours on end about the various types of plays , especially when we were watching it on TV . |
| 12 | A twenty four year old woman came to see me for treatment on the ward , a smoker . |
| 13 | My respects to the captain and ask him to join me for breakfast at , say , eight-thirty . |
| 14 | Once I did this under the eye of a policeman who nabbed me for parking on a yellow line when I emerged from the bank a few minutes later . |
| 15 | Paediatricians at any grade are welcome to contact me for names of suitable job sharers or simply for general advice if they already have a colleague with whom they wish to share . |
| 16 | She did n't ask what my plans were , or press me for details of any other potentially embarrassing subject . |
| 17 | A reunion of the ship 's company is to be held in the RNA Club , Leamington Spa , on Saturday , July 3 , and I invite all members to contact me for details on or by letter . |
| 18 | The reports should be sent in the first instance to me for submission to the Advisory Committee on Policy . |
| 19 | I was on the board of the bank then , and he came to me for advice about a takeover bid for his company . |
| 20 | I may persuade Fräulein Aschmann to join me for tea at the Franz Joseph . |
| 21 | He leaves me for days on end . |
| 22 | Twenty five , yes an and for that he can make hims he does n't want to really to pay me for food at all so I 'm going to tell him that he can have his cups , spare cups of tea and a drink of milk an and some toast . |
| 23 | He could sue me for slander over this . ’ |
| 24 | And this shows if you give the book out at the end and then what 'll the guy say you wan na give it out at the beginning , sow the seed that this is the only way you work , you 're now thinking well this guy 's gon na be asking me for recommendations at some stage during the hour together |
| 25 | He apologizes and hands me a note : Sir Thomas Fairfax is expecting me for dinner at Folly Farm . |
| 26 | I do n't find that difficult , that 's really expected of me as part of the caring . |
| 27 | ‘ Right from the beginning my fellow directors have regarded me as part of the team and have been tremendously supportive . ’ |
| 28 | Finally they seemed to accept me as part of the landscape and came within the range of my camera . |
| 29 | This was necessary to me as part of my approach to socialism , for before you can be sure whether you are genuinely in favour of socialism , you have got to decide whether things at present are tolerable or not tolerable , and you have got to take up a definite attitude on the terribly difficult question of class … |
| 30 | His secretary had come to regard lying to me as part of her job and even our friends lied for him , aiding and abetting my dick-led husband in a misguided effort to protect me . |