Example sentences of "it [vb past] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | Still , it haunted me . |
| 2 | Clegg , in the first novel , is obsessed from the beginning , after he has heard Miranda speak for the first time , he says ‘ It haunted me . |
| 3 | It got me noticed here although I think the one-man show I did outside on my own was the real deciding factor with the RSC . |
| 4 | I imitated his style and it got me into trouble . ’ |
| 5 | After a time it got me down , this continued evasion of me , it was like a form of torture . |
| 6 | Do n't get me wrong , I 've done it myself in the past and seen just how far it got me . |
| 7 | Absolutely nowhere , that 's where it got me . |
| 8 | On my last day there I was literally pushed out of a small news agent 's shop by a pair of youths for requesting a box of matches in English rather than in French ; I even tried my one and only French joke on them and said ‘ Quel fromage ! ’ but it got me nowhere — but out ! |
| 9 | The way I viewed training was that it got me out of the house . |
| 10 | In fact it got me some funny looks because I was reading Today 's Horse on the tube and could n't help laughing out loud ! |
| 11 | I heard the Allman Brothers ’ first album once and was n't impressed ; then I listened to it again , and wham — it got me ! |
| 12 | And it got me thinking that there must be thousands of people up and down the country doing worthwhile things to protect our environment and wildlife who go unrecognised . |
| 13 | I put myself on the line for him once already and look where it got me : thirty-six hours in jail ; Interrogations every four hours . |
| 14 | " At least it got me reading , " she said . |
| 15 | What happened was , one of my students wrote something in an examination essay and it got me fired . |
| 16 | it got me , , I , I did n't say any more , but er |
| 17 | " It got me tons of lifts on the way here . |
| 18 | It got me out of clearing tables for a living , but I thought it meant more than that . |
| 19 | WordPerfect for Windows Power Macros is one of those weighty ( 500+ pages ) books/manuals and although designed for the ‘ couple of steps up from a basic knowledge ’ reader , I did n't find it got me into the harder bits gently . |
| 20 | It got me here , Thorny , it got me you . ’ |
| 21 | It got me here , Thorny , it got me you . ’ |
| 22 | And last night it got me into hot water . |
| 23 | ‘ But I tried being polite for a long time , Aunt Ruth , and it got me nowhere . |
| 24 | However , it got me well in with the sisters of the peace camp . |
| 25 | ‘ It got me out of the way while you put your nasty little heads together ! ’ |
| 26 | They 're beautiful of course , but it amused me to wonder which artists people in America would think about if you talked about English landscapes . |
| 27 | It amused me to think back to my life in London . |
| 28 | At first it amused me ; after my first year it drove me to distraction ; in my second year I learned to take a novel with me to work and , with a bit of luck , get through it in a two-day shoot . |
| 29 | However , seeing as I was in Rosslare that day , it amused me to keep an eye out for the car he 'd described . |
| 30 | I do n't think I really expected to see it , but when I did it amused me to follow you , and when you stopped in Wexford it was idle curiosity that prompted my behaviour , nothing else . ’ |