Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] me [prep] [pos pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pat told me of her other' schemes for making money which , of course , never came to anything . |
| 2 | Grief hit me in its fullest force much later . |
| 3 | If it should please God for my sins to separate me from my dearest Pamela , you will only resolve not to marry one person . |
| 4 | As I escorted Marinka to the Oasis Arena in the torrential rain , the scene of mimose reminded me of my halcyon days at . |
| 5 | Rose Mundy told me of her continual battle with overweight thighs , a problem that had been with her for as long as she could remember . |
| 6 | As show jumper and trainer John Bunyan told me on our first lesson ( see next month 's diary ) : ‘ You have to work out the difference between ‘ Ca n't ’ and ‘ Wo n't ’ . |
| 7 | That night Eva put me in her clean little spare room . |
| 8 | ‘ Then let me tell you that you have no right to include me in your sordid games . |
| 9 | The Coroner complimented me on my prompt reporting of the find , and after a short deliberation declared them not to be Treasure Trove and handed them back to me . |
| 10 | Of course , I had my dreams , like all young girls , of a tall , dark and handsome man coming striding over the fell one day to claim me as his own . |
| 11 | ‘ Not to say meet , but Matthew Choak passed me in his old van . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ My father tells me in his latest letter that Hester and the baby are doing well , ’ she informed Ruth . |
| 13 | One of my more cynical film critic friends uses me as his personal ‘ shriekometer ’ to gauge how freaked out Joe Public is going to be by some of the grizzlier horror movies we have to sit through . |
| 14 | This was eventually made doubly plain when each member of my crew took it in turn to brief me on his particular duties , and I in turn had to perform in his position . |
| 15 | In the music room , which has its walls lined with framed gold records and death threats from fundamentalist religious groups , Ice-T tells me about his future plans . |
| 16 | This dress reminds me of my first long dress . |
| 17 | Two things may protect us : first , the Lord Cardinal treats me as his favourite nephew and that will afford us some protection ; secondly , our investigations safeguard us . |
| 18 | Take me , leaves , O take me on your dark journey . |
| 19 | During my last two years at Eton , and my years at Oxford , Guy Rogers invited me to his covert shoots . |
| 20 | Later , Carl scolded me in his own fashion : |
| 21 | At the meeting , the Prime Minister told me of his personal knowledge of the suffering of cancer victims and of their families and friends . |
| 22 | pair call me by my first name too as if |
| 23 | It was a bulky volume to carry around and my RAF friends used to rib me about my " vest pocket edition " , but I had resolved to keep reading it in spare moments to remind me of my real life . |
| 24 | ‘ Later , my mother told me of her terrible foreboding that she had about me the day we made that first daylight raid on Berlin . |
| 25 | Jim Haylock on the Moors Valley Railway near Ringwood introduced me to his latest machine last week . |
| 26 | Walter had me into his panelled wankpit of an office , classified my request to change the name on my cheques from N.O. Russell to Oliver Russell as not central to the Bank 's policy for the 1980s , and reminded me that unless funds were forthcoming to camouflage my black hole of an overdraft I would n't be getting a new cheque-book even if I called myself Santa Claus . |