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 .
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