Example sentences of "me [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And yeah , they 've gone and re-credited me for the fifteen pound ! |
| 2 | I feel so comfortable with your mother and the whole time here has changed me for the better . ’ |
| 3 | Erm , well I do n't know Wendy , I 'll have to go into that when I , I do n't think they have , I do n't know that they have charged me for , well they 've certainly charged me for the new wiring . |
| 4 | Offering the blond English boy — the one I was throwing water at now — half my lunch , and sitting there full of gratitude because he smiled , because he liked the taste of the piece of chicken dipped in cumin and saffron and he had smiled at me for the first time . |
| 5 | ‘ For instance , when you asked the official you met to find you some film-makers to talk to , he rung me up and spoke to me for the first time for years . |
| 6 | And at the end of the class , near the bust of Unamuno , I heard your voice calling to me for the first time . |
| 7 | Professor Ruiperez told me I need not start my classes until I was quite recovered , and the women in the office and the library spoke friendly words to me for the first time . |
| 8 | As the white cliffs of Dover receded and the coast of France drew near , the inimitable excitement of ‘ abroad ’ took hold of me for the first time — the only really positive emotion I had felt for twenty-six months . |
| 9 | He saw me for the first time . |
| 10 | At once she burst into tears and hugging me for the first time in years ( it seemed ) , cried , ‘ If only I had their faith ! ’ |
| 11 | Nigel turned his head to look at me for the first time and smiled in a kindly manner . |
| 12 | It occurred to me for the first time that he might not know whether or not I 'd lost the baby . |
| 13 | He glared up at me as though seeing me for the first time . |
| 14 | Suddenly , looking at me for the first time , ‘ Tell me , ’ she said , ‘ oh , tell me — what are you in ? ’ |
| 15 | Within a few days of seeing me for the first time , he summoned me once again to tell me that the Labour Party did not wish to continue with the action . |
| 16 | I do not know what purpose the meeting served in persuading Wapping of the merits of our plan , but it did enable me for the first and only time to see the terrain on which we were working and reinforced my enthusiasm to kill the committee at the earliest possible moment . |
| 17 | My time at the Housing Corporation was eventful in bringing me for the first , but no means last , time into contact with Mrs Thatcher when , on the fall of the Heath government , she became the shadow Minister of the Environment , in succession to the job she had had as Minister of Education . |
| 18 | Just then he noticed me for the first time . |
| 19 | He looked at me for the first time when I said this . |
| 20 | It hit me for the first time that the bands and comedians were going to be performing here for free , for John , for us . |
| 21 | When my feeble protests were ignored back there it hit me for the first time that I was n't a civilian any more . |
| 22 | As she did so she seemed to notice me for the first time . |
| 23 | He nodded and he looked at me for the first time . |
| 24 | He looks at me for the first time . |
| 25 | He buggered me for the first time that night , reaching round and putting his hand over my mouth , tearing me in two . |
| 26 | Well that 's what everybody sings to me when them and they meet me for the first time or get introduced to me . |
| 27 | Susan uses me for the first person pronoun [ G2 ] , and unmarked past tense [ G4 ] in tell , see , pick and run , and she has initial /t/ in ting , " thing " [ P17 ] . |
| 28 | I now see that Travis is so smitten that he would n't accept anything but that , meeting me for the first time when I called at your apartment , you at once became very much attracted to me . |
| 29 | For the first time I had an opportunity of seeing Barbara at work in detailed negotiations , and whatever small credit attached to me for the major idea , the scale and ingenuity that she expended on the detail and in making it possible to arrive at a suitable settlement was beyond praise . |
| 30 | And she asked me for the fifty P . |