Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] me [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | For all she knows , the social services could have given me to another family . |
| 32 | ‘ Why would you have told me in any case ? |
| 33 | Oh no he would n't have had me in any case . |
| 34 | Once you became head of the department , you could have pulled me off this job at any time . |
| 35 | I had an apartment on the third floor , overlooking the square and the end of the Avenida Jose Antonio de Rivera round which I would watch Dana coming to join me for another afternoon of poetry . |
| 36 | ‘ The adrenalin was pumping and my experience should have stood me in good stead . |
| 37 | ‘ The adrenalin was pumping and my experience should have stood me in good stead . |
| 38 | ‘ Paula started to tell me about another woman who Eddie had begun seeing and she said that the marriage had gone through a bad patch and divorce proceedings had been started , ’ Miss Coltman said . |
| 39 | Miss Coltman said : ‘ Paula started to tell me about another woman that Eddie was seeing and at one point divorce proceedings had been started . |
| 40 | Miss Coltman said : ‘ Paula started to tell me about another woman that Eddie was seeing and at one point divorce proceedings had been started . ’ |
| 41 | But try to implicate me in any way — or use me as a trade-off- and it 'll be added to the police clear-up rate faster than the eye can follow . |
| 42 | ‘ And if you are too tired to write you must come to see me in any case , and then I shall know you are safe . |
| 43 | If Wishart began talking about painting , he attended for five minutes , then deflected the conversation with ‘ Do tell me about last night 's sailor . ’ |
| 44 | And I think sent me on that course you know . |
| 45 | ‘ And why would you want to take me to this auction ? |
| 46 | My father come to see me at one holiday and the Easter time he see something happen and they did n't like him and cos all my as cabin boy . |
| 47 | In 89 , a poem of infidelity ( ‘ Say that thou didst forsake me for some fault ’ ) , the Poet abases himself , vowing to perform all kinds of penance in order to win the Friend back , including never mentioning his name again in case he ‘ haply of our old acquaintance tell ’ : it is over , in the past . |
| 48 | ‘ What do you mean to do , ’ demanded Harry , looking fiercely up at him from under drawn brows , ‘ now that you 've tricked me into this betrayal ? |
| 49 | Later , from South Africa , he wrote to thank me for this advice , but now he reciprocated by telling me , with great gentleness , that I should not go on hoping , as he himself had searched the P.O.W. lists , and Leslie 's name was not on any of them . |
| 50 | They were continual concrete evidence of the sleight of hand which had conjured me from one world to another . |
| 51 | I remembered , however , that my father had told me of this sort of thing happening in the past , and the sands had always returned over the following few weeks and months . |
| 52 | Some of the stories people had told me in that room would make your hair stand on end . |
| 53 | Before I left I tried to ring Nassim Nassim , my erstwhile landlord and Sunil 's cousin and , I 'd decided by now , the man who had got me into this mess . |
| 54 | Whether my knowledge that I shall some day die , that a nuclear war is likely sooner or later , that alcohol will kill me , that another person is suffering , does move me in one direction or another , depends on the extent of my disposition to take these things into account in choices , on awareness which may spontaneously vary from one moment to the next and be sustainable only by an effort of will . |
| 55 | In trying to conceal his negligence the projectionist had provided me with tangible evidence of the grand illusion . |
| 56 | I did then go about the task Mr Farraday had set me with some dedication ; I spent many hours working on the staff plan , and at least as many hours again thinking about it as I went about other duties or as I lay awake after retiring . |
| 57 | ‘ He could n't live with the thought that someone had touched me in that way . |
| 58 | I make this point after returning from a day 's walking near Ullswater when I was approached by a party of walkers who had followed me for some distance thinking that I was headed for the same destination . |
| 59 | ‘ What were you trying to teach me in this Lord ? ’ |
| 60 | It had left me in White Face 's power . |