Example sentences of "me [prep] my [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This came as something of a surprise , for nothing Victor Saunders had told me about the Priut refuge quite prepared me for my first sight of this three-storey silver sausage — an amazing futuristic construction with a dining room that looks out on a wonderland of peaks , and with some four-bedded dormitories which , if you 're lucky enough to be allocated one , ensures a degree of comfort far different from alpine-style overcrowding . |
| 2 | ‘ Oh , it 's got nothing to do with business , ’ Alison replied with a laugh that ever so gently reprimanded me for my mercantile preoccupations . |
| 3 | My father gave it to me for my seventeenth birthday . |
| 4 | At an earlier meeting , Bobby Lawrence had asked me for my initial reaction to the management buying the company . |
| 5 | Aunt Anna gave it to me for my tenth birthday . |
| 6 | I started siding stuff then , an' sweeping an' doing ; and I expected he 'd begin a calling me for my idle ways . |
| 7 | This capacity of language to crystallize and stabilize me for my own subjectivity is retained |
| 8 | If you were protecting me for my own good , she thought , I would be cross with you , but not this cross . |
| 9 | I 'd like you to stand with me as my best man . |
| 10 | For I too have the same taint of ‘ foolishness ’ upon me as my great-uncle Fred , though I 've so far escaped the anguish of his illness . |
| 11 | As time went on and I knew that I had a fight on my hands , healing became as important to me as my new diet or the other new therapies . |
| 12 | The old woman 's voice had changed and become as familiar to me as my own . |
| 13 | You 're to me as my own and I 'll not stand cheekiness from either . |
| 14 | It was a sight as familiar to me as my own front room . |
| 15 | Unable to say , Because I felt as if I knew you , as if I 'd always known you ; because your face was as familiar to me as my own , she replied weakly , ‘ Sometimes a particular face stands out . |
| 16 | His son , Wilfred , a pupil-teacher at St. Martin 's , taught me during my first year in the Boys ' School . |
| 17 | A point of interest to myself is that our driver , Howard Bounds , shared the next bed to me during my last stay in hospital . |
| 18 | ‘ Tell me about my real father . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'm not used to some bloody apprentice waltzing into my house and asking me about my private affairs — ’ |
| 20 | ‘ What right have you to ask me about my private life ? ’ |
| 21 | ‘ What right have you to ask me about my private life ? |
| 22 | In the interview they asked me about my future plans . |
| 23 | D' you know that guy comes into my office about twice a day and perches on my desk like a bird of ill omen all ready to commiserate with me about my wretched lot ? |
| 24 | He had asked me about my unusual name . |
| 25 | He then asked me about my sexual habits , to which I replied that I was heterosexual . |
| 26 | George Roman read me and after I 'd done the first reading he asked me about my own attitudes to the Part and then told me his as a director , which were completely different . |
| 27 | Yes , I have at last , and the I 'm sure that they lied in their teeth , they they assured me they had written to me after my second letter in March , er in fact , and they said they were going to send me a photocopy of that , in fact er she wrote me a letter in June , so I do n't believe the other one existed , |
| 28 | The first questions which faced me after my own Worst Day were simple . |
| 29 | They were a decent lot and I was glad that they accepted me despite my anomalous position . |
| 30 | Reminds me of my first branch chair , an ex-miner , who used to give me a lift home in his Jag . |