Example sentences of "[verb] me [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | And when , as shadow education spokesman , I was a frontline campaigner in the nineteen eighty seven election , it was the G M B which provided me with the necessary facilities to carry out that role , and I thank them for it . |
| 32 | Sure enough , a high-pitched peeping drew me to the stable , and there on the floor was the hen with one minute black puff-ball of a chick . |
| 33 | Instead of joining the press of bodies that jammed up the aisle towards the crush bar , he took my arm once again and drew me in the opposite direction . |
| 34 | Other 's forgive me for the wrong doing , and for the harm I do to them , but it 's only God who can forgive my sin . |
| 35 | Last time I had been to Paris they had rescued me from the freezing streets and hungry wolf packs . ) |
| 36 | The boy found me at the sweet shop across the street , and told me of the drama . |
| 37 | But I could n't get the door shut to lock him in and he caught me in the other cellar . |
| 38 | It was nearly forty years later that I met the man who had carried me into the only half track we had left and who reassured me . |
| 39 | It has carried me from the comfortable Salisbury suburb where a kind Scottish family have made me a home , to a rough Bulawayo farmstead . |
| 40 | Elizabeth helped me with the flapping chair . |
| 41 | She had been a major influence in my life , and helped me through the rough patches . |
| 42 | You helped me in the early days . |
| 43 | He approached me across the marbled swirl of shag carpet , looking like a prelate pumped up with helium , and solemnly intoned , ‘ Now , lad , cup your hands , here comes the anti-chocolate . ’ |
| 44 | Everyone loves me for the very things that you want me to cover up ! |
| 45 | The point is that the inference which you give to it is that they 're not quite fit to be Governors , by comparison with others , and I 'd like to defend that because I can assure you that I have never ever nominated a Governor for a school who I have not thought would be advantageous to that Board of Governors to have as a member and that he will be he or she will be a contributor to that particular school , and I 've done it time and time and time again and indeed on occasions have had headmasters coming to me and thanking me for the particular person that I put in . |
| 46 | Lucky for me that I got out before you could entice me into the ultimate folly of going to bed with you . ’ |
| 47 | A telephone call to establish whether I had been made redundant or , if not , to inform me of the administrative delay , would have been far more appropriate , and possibly cheaper , than a typed letter announcing the uncleared cheque and the administrative charge . |
| 48 | It has n't prepared me for the outside world ; all it 's done is given me an awareness of myself . |
| 49 | Nothing had prepared me for the overwhelming architectural beauty of Salamanca , and in particular for the grandeur of the university , the oldest in Spain and one of the oldest in Europe , with its noble façade in plateresque style . |
| 50 | As a teenager , I laughed off an incident when a nappy horse attempted to deposit me on the wrong side of the railings on a motorway bridge . |
| 51 | A shadow fell across my sunny table and I looked up to find Kenneth who 'd been on a recce of the hospital , so after a lunch of ribs , skins , wings and blueberry pie , he was able to lead me through the appropriate doors of the vast , multi-entranced building . |
| 52 | Just what routes will logic produce to lead me to the complete knowledge of the nature of a flea ? … |
| 53 | as if in a dream , I allowed Mrs Knelle to lead me to the front door . |
| 54 | I had each Wednesday afternoon off from Russell 's and he enroled me , secretly , into his school for lessons with his normal classes , He and his wife held a weekly open house and these cramming sessions prepared me for the coming Halton entrance examination . |
| 55 | Racks and Torments ! dost think , Child , that my Limbs were made for leaping of Ditches , and clambring over Stiles ; or that my Parents wisely foreseeing my future Happiness in Country-pleasures , had early instructed me in the rural Accomplishments of drinking fat Ale , playing at Whisk , and smoaking Tobacco with my Husband ; or of spreading of Plaisters , brewing of Diet-drinks , and stilling Rosemary-Water with the good old Gentlewoman , my Mother-in-Law … . |
| 56 | The current advert for the Washburn Mercury guitar revolts me to the very depths of my soul . |
| 57 | Throughout the whole ghastly hour , I thought with gratitude of the boring school routines and the strict schoolmasters who have made me into the psychological oddity which I am today . |
| 58 | Ellen had gone to her one-room apartment in town while Thessy was reading his Bible in the main-cabin , so I heated myself some baked beans in Wavebreaker 's microwave , spread them on buttered toast , soaked them in brown sauce , then ate a morose supper on deck until the bugs drove me to the screened sanctuary of the staterooms below . |
| 59 | The Australian representative of the Mission , who drove me to the Southern Cross Hotel in Sydney , explained that the Mantela , a Sanderstown boat of 5,000 tons which normally plied between the islands , had just finished a refit in Sydney and was about to sail two days after my arrival . |
| 60 | I was his assistant and when he wanted flowers he would send me to the Old Covent Garden at 4.30am to buy hundreds of pots of chrysanthemums which would then be sold off at the end of the day , thus serving a dual purpose as decoration and a means of recouping some of our costs . |