Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] [prep] me " in BNC.
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1 | As it also happens to be the only drinker on the Cherwell until you get to Islip , the murderous conspiracies and dark plots which so excite the Kidlington Kops amount to nothing more than the fact that when I opened my curtains that morning I saw the sun shining in a cloudless blue sky and decided to go for the longest and most pleasant of the river walks open to me . |
2 | Your eyes look at me night and day . |
3 | GLIDEWELL L.J. , having reviewed the authorities , concluding with Pao On v. Lau Yiu , continued : It is true that Pao On v. Lau Yiu is a case of a tripartite relationship , that is , a promise by A to perform a pre-existing contractual obligation owed to B , in retum for a promise of payment by C. But Lord Scarman 's words seem to me to be of general application , equally applicable to a promise made by one of the original two parties to a contract . |
4 | Class Readers seem to me to be an excellent book … |
5 | His eyes blaze at me . |
6 | I have learned to keep going , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , even when the voices scream at me to stop , to lie down , to turn to something else . |
7 | I see other people through a glass wall , their voices penetrate to me . |
8 | My kids write to me all the time . ’ |
9 | Rachaela could only read the words Come to me . |
10 | These advantages appear to me to outweigh the disadvantages identified by Mr of there being more outsiders in the family household , possibly homesick and unhappy carers who are not living in their own homes , but at the establishment and the trouble and worry to the of what would be not infrequent , recruitment of new carers for Mrs , I hope perhaps a trifle pessimistically thought that on average carers would not spend more than about a year of course , some longer , some shorter , because such carers necessarily had to be fairly young , fit , strong people and the stresses and strains of the er the whole business she thought would lead to reasonably rapid turnover , not the emergence of long-term carers who might stay for a number of years , er , as I say I 'd rather hoped that she may be unduly pessimistic about that , but , that , I accept what she says about it . |
11 | Forcing values upon another without full discussion of what are to count as rights and duties appear to me to be anti-educational . |
12 | erm in namely that to the er , the duties put upon me |
13 | Now he thinks he can work it in , which I 'm pleased about because if this is the way the Indians react to me and Matt then maybe that 's a pointer to how the fans will go . |
14 | Her feet seem to me to be set more firmly upon the earth than theirs … . |
15 | The noises swirl round me , but it do n't bother me . |
16 | Guitarists write to me a lot for advice , I guess because there 's not a lot of people out there who can really help . |
17 | My parents moan at me because I am not always willing to go to work . |
18 | To ‘ sigh ’ two-note groups seem to me appropriate only when the music really expresses a sigh ! |
19 | The gate swings open behind me . |
20 | These authorities seem to me to leave the developing law , if not at the crossroads , at least at the junction of two diverging roads . |
21 | When I get out of my train at Victoria and look about me at the other two hundred — mostly strangers , not least so those whose names as early schoolfellows dawn on me when they disappeared , — I sometimes think that one or two of us ought to speak out instead of just voting and making a remark in the complaint book once or twice a year and writing to a newspaper less often . |
22 | These pieces speak to me of boundless beauty and passion and I rejoice in my tears but I use them too , intuitively , when I feel depressed or despairing , to release tears . |
23 | The contrast between this Golden Age and the uncertainty of the future , Bedivere laments in fear of : ‘ the days darken round me ’ . |
24 | Many constituents write to me regularly , expressing themselves strongly and loudly of the opinion , or in some cases the fact , that there has been serious abuse of the immigration laws . |
25 | When tapes come into me I have a listen to the beginning and end of them all to sort of see what sort of quality they are |
26 | Sometimes the English Catholics write to me and ask me for help , and sometimes I write to them . |
27 | I half-expected to catch a pulse in the throat , see the chest rise and fall and watch those long , white fingers creep towards me … |
28 | Three stories contend within me . |
29 | And then my mind shimmers in the great heat and all things appear to me as through coloured veils . |
30 | Since then there have been fundamental changes , and few of his principles appear to me to be applicable to the modern Constitution . |