Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [noun pl] [verb] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | So far from craving for crumpets I was firmly resisting repatriation and trying hard to stay where I was ; the kindness of friends enabled me to do so . |
| 2 | Then from the sealed camp at Fairford — ‘ The Cage ’ , where members of the S.A.S. were confined after they had been briefed — there was released the batch of letters to overwhelm me anew with love and foreboding . |
| 3 | I was frustrated by a slow start — the mass of runners held me back |
| 4 | I 'd tried waiting for the natural course of events to bring me the way of the creche , some errand Mrs Goreng might send me on , but it had n't worked out that way . |
| 5 | My twin sister is a nurse and I suppose all the blood and thunder of things took me a different way . |
| 6 | The consolidation of results gave me , on one page , an overview of the ledger by risk category and was very effective in resource planning . |
| 7 | Closing the book , I went back to my cartooning stool , where a small circle of children awaited me . |
| 8 | A band of gamesters joined me , with a cupful of dice and purses jingling merrily . |
| 9 | The small square of shops reminds me a lot of Belfast 's battle-scarred Divis Flats — the shop windows are permanently barricaded , many flats boarded up and the walls covered in spray can slogans . |
| 10 | Around the foot of the walls , on plinths of wood or stone , or on bottles and cans the sea had surrendered , my collection of skulls watched me . |
| 11 | It 's , certainly erm well attended , there 's , you know thousands of people attend and basically it centres around erm , a fire , Beltane means erm , sacred fire and erm a procession of drummers leads me to top of a path and along Carlfa , Carlton Hill and erm fire sculptures are lit around me and I unfo ha have this great costume that I unfold in and erm process round the hill and round hill are different performers erm painted in different colours to represent different elements of nature , and finally we come to this big fire where which I light with hands , which have been sculpted and bannocks are given to the people to eat , and erm the tradition that you 're supposed to cross the fire as a sort of a erm purification ceremony or or through the ashes of the fire . |
| 12 | This peculiar state of affairs mystified me , as I had expected the presence of a local bus IDE host card to make itself felt in a big way . |
| 13 | Referring back to that list of priorities led me to address this thorny issue once more , only this time less from the point of view of a recording being merely compared with other recordings ( or some mean recorded standard ) , than the level of execution which the scores themselves would appear to invite . |
| 14 | Now one of the most important things that we 've established erm is that er you need to sit down still with the secretary of the club and say right now you 've got this list of businesses tell me more about them . |
| 15 | This was the first time I 'd been into a prison and a number of things struck me during the day . |
| 16 | He asked a number of men to tell me what they had seen and found the night before . |
| 17 | Same number of overheads to keep me happy , but you 've got ta write less to keep you happy , there you go . |
| 18 | A lot of things reminded me of pricks when I was sixteen . |
| 19 | And then the next lot of lights sucks me to it and I just slide down the street . |
| 20 | For so long as I can recall I have always had kennels and an assortment of dogs to help me in my work . |
| 21 | The spectacle last week of 400 officers in riot gear running round the Broadwater Farm Estate and finding little or nothing in the way of drugs reminded me of Sir Robert Mark 's definition of a good police force as one which employed fewer criminals than it caught . |
| 22 | I loved it when a whole pile of notes met me in the morning and I did not surface till lunchtime . |
| 23 | And then , when I was taking the exhibition down , a couple of women helped me and they said , ‘ Why are you so angry , dear ? ’ |
| 24 | I 've had a couple of letters asking me whether I ever managed to give up smoking as I promised a few months ago . |
| 25 | couple of hours get me going . |
| 26 | ‘ I played soccer all the way through school and never entertained the thought of rugby until a couple of friends took me down to Preston Grasshoppers . |
| 27 | ‘ I tried not to listen to all that dirty talk , but the truth is a couple of suggestions left me wondering … ’ |
| 28 | Another couple of lads joined me at Middlesbrough station and off we went to be gentlemen 's gentlemen . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'll have a couple of drinks to give me Dutch courage , then I 'll join you . |
| 30 | ‘ It speaks for all of us intellectuals , but will upset some people ’ , one class of students told me during a ‘ Heshang ’ discussion . |