Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] me [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | TVH , as it is generally known , was typified for me by a man called Alf Mignot , who died in 1987 in his early sixties . |
| 2 | Mrs Singh had been visited at home and the head had arranged for me to be present so that I could explain and reinforce any suggestions . |
| 3 | The splendid packed lunch arranged for me by Major Hal that morning plus the thermos of American coffee made a welcome lunch as ‘ Deemy ’ and I winged our solitary way over the continuous stretches of grasslands , lakes and rivers of Siberia to make a smooth landing at the Russian Air Force base at Irkutsk early that evening . |
| 4 | It was designed for me by that spooky little twosome , the Emmanuels ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I bought the waterfalls off Lloyd Cole before he moved to America , and the rainbow was specially designed for me by a team of clever scientists . |
| 6 | He seemed to have forgotten about me in the middle of his sentence . |
| 7 | I 've got two young sons as well , erm they two got took off me into foster care , and that was when I really had to decide it was the either the drugs or the children . |
| 8 | By now the time had come for me to hand back to these women responsibility to go it alone . |
| 9 | I was due to attend a meeting with several other women whom I knew and felt in sympathy with , and when I arrived there , the weight of my unhappiness just rolled off me like an unwanted burden . |
| 10 | looked after me in Hyderabad , where he and his wife made me feel at home with their warm , relaxing hospitality . |
| 11 | I do n't find that difficult , that 's really expected of me as part of the caring . |
| 12 | I was looking forward to the chance to meet ‘ our ’ health visitor and find out what would be expected of me in the months leading up to the birth . |
| 13 | " Well , mother explained to me what was expected of me in the marriage bed and it sounded so terrifying . |
| 14 | I am quite clear what is expected of me in my job . |
| 15 | I could do what was expected of me by the crowd , or I could do what he trusted me to do . |
| 16 | He says do n't you dare come near me with that silly spray . |
| 17 | Sylvia had rung up me about booking for a meal and I thought , originally they talked about going a Friday night , and they said , Friday and Saturday are fully booked for the next five weeks . |
| 18 | I had an Abaya ( the long black gown ) which I had carried with me on the plane and a scarf to cover my hair , so I was able to enter the Ministry of Health without shocking the men too much . |
| 19 | ‘ I 've got a special licence in my pocket ; if I 'd been obliged to go to Paris you 'd have come with me as my wife . ’ |
| 20 | Anybody come with me to the hospital |
| 21 | Your poems were torn from me by violence ; |
| 22 | I cast in and try to shrug off the disappointed , deflated feeling that has come over me since the anticlimax of the eel . |
| 23 | He said , ‘ Sickness has given me this fortune that this sultan has come to my side , at morn so health and well being have accrued to me from the arrival of this King without retinue . |
| 24 | Most of the things I expected to value in life have come to me through death . ’ |
| 25 | They had come to me for help in extricating themselves from satanism because the high priest had insisted on performing the ‘ Act of Unity ’ with their fourteen-year-old daughter . |
| 26 | But my present belief is that if Profumo had come to me for advice ( and my advice , of course , would only have made sense if one postulates that Profumo would have told me the truth ) , I would have recommended that he should throw in the towel ; assert that he had no intention of allowing his private life to be discussed in public ; apologise to the Prime Minister for the embarrassment he had caused both to him and to the party , and withdraw rapidly . |
| 27 | ‘ So you have come to me after fighting so much ! ’ continues Guruji , smiling . |
| 28 | I am a recent subscriber , having recently renewed my subscription for a second year and I have enjoyed every issue that has come to me in the post . |
| 29 | I strongly felt that Resenence had come to me in the dream and yet , when I awoke , when the morning came , I told myself I had created it myself . |
| 30 | In less than one year certain people have received an increase more than has come to me in 11 years . |