Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [verb] [verb] me [det] " in BNC.

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1 I must have lived , oh , well over ninety-five years , but when I eventually meet God I want to ask him a question which has haunted me all my life .
2 Another point which has given me some concern is that the present book is supposed to be a directory of Cabinet Committees .
3 The point which has struck me most ( in my myopic way ) has been the abrupt disappearance at this level , all over the world , of the atrypid brachiopods .
4 On the day the telegram arrived from Southern Ferries , a close friend who had given me much encouragement now began to question my continuing any further .
5 I 'm afraid I persuaded the woman I spoke to give me this address .
6 I want to find the answers to certain whys and wherefores which have puzzled me all my life . ’
7 These words of wisdom remind me of a student who came to see me many years ago after the long vacation during which she had begun her undergraduate dissertation ( with another tutor who had left the university that summer , I must emphasize ) .
8 I remembered another story they 'd told me that day of the first snowfall : it was about a hunt several years ago , on a day like this .
9 I made one stipulation only to the Foreign Secretary , Sir Alec Douglas-Home , which was that my driver should not be the same amiable young man who had led me such a dance around Johannesburg .
10 ‘ Oh , come on , you do n't really think you 're the first man who 's issued me this kind of invitation ? ’
11 This is , as I say , a matter which has given me much concern .
12 In the meantime they 've given me this to go on with , ’ he answered , throwing our ration card across the table .
13 Coupled to an external VHF aerial the 5.0W setting is capable of giving a useful range equal to that of many panel-mounted sets , but on test in the cockpit it failed to offer me much real advantage over the lower-powered units when all were used with the standard screw-on flexible antennas as supplied .
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