Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [noun] [verb] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | It did not take me long because the big grin with which Yorkshire 's finest snooker player greeted me told its own story . |
| 2 | At the risk of sounding smug , my ornamental kitchen garden gave me no such problems . |
| 3 | This rock thing baffles me , especially when people reach up and try to touch your hand . |
| 4 | This telephone call made me think back over the years . |
| 5 | I 've known ghosts who went back to their houses or caravans or their stately homes and there was n't a trace of them left , it was all tower blocks or allotments or -one lady ghost told me — a supermarket . |
| 6 | I got quite a lot of reading done — John managed to persuade one of the nice Italian staff at the British Council Library to let me have two more books than my five allowed , so I had them on her ticket ! |
| 7 | funny it 's like cos they had the keyboard and that sort of rap beat it 's like , and all my kebabs are in salad cream , rap it on , stack it on , that 's my scene , gim me some kebab kebab gim me ages , wicked tune , I mean all these words |
| 8 | Later the European Athletic Association wrote a letter to the British team management reprimanding me for wearing the flag on the rostrum and covering my tracksuit . |
| 9 | And at this point reason failed me . |
| 10 | This pendulum visualisation helped me considerably at the point where I was just about to master the hovering stage . |
| 11 | So if you spot a public phone box tell me . |
| 12 | I 'll sit on your door-step till you get a High Court injunction to throw me off . |
| 13 | This morning Saskia asked me what sign I am . |
| 14 | Trained dog observers tell me that when this happens it is equivalent to rapid eye movement in human beings and the animal is dreaming . |
| 15 | But this volume business worried me , so I spoke to Mesa Engineering 's Dan Van Reizen on the subject . |
| 16 | One particularly nasty German television journalist informed me that he had been waiting for a month and if anyone was getting near Ortega , it was him . |
| 17 | I 'm sure that will be covered this word responsibility frightens me or makes me apprehensive . |
| 18 | Some barnyard crone turned me away . |
| 19 | Then old man Grierson treats me like the village idiot . |
| 20 | If in a residential school staff tell me in interviews that the children are happy and well behaved but records show high levels of absconding and excessive punishment , I would be suspicious about the validity of the interview material . |
| 21 | ‘ Maybe this childhood trauma left me permanently scarred where men and money were concerned , ’ she was to say later in a rare mention of her childhood days . |
| 22 | The German mortar team reminded me of the Commando mortar team back in the orchard at Brigade H.Q when they were mortaring the German positions . |
| 23 | I did n't do a lot of walkin' , except round the shops , and I treated meself to another 'ansom cab to bring me back . |
| 24 | I was busy trying to figure out if this guy Thomas fancied me . |
| 25 | During this time Shadwell had me concentrate on the animal noises I was to make between the dialogue , so that when , for instance , I was talking to Kaa the slithering snake , who saves Mowgli 's life , I had to hiss . |
| 26 | This time John woke me . |
| 27 | ‘ They 're not exactly strutting the world stage these days , ’ a Foreign Office source tells me . |
| 28 | After some time Jean advised me in the words above to go out and be alone with God and express my renewed affection for him . |
| 29 | That spear tackle cost me my place with the New Zealand team against Great Britain this summer . |
| 30 | Carbon , glass , boron , graphite , hexagon , all seem lifeless to me ; and high-modulus , high-strength aerospace technology leaves me about as cold as deep-frozen Arctic char . |