Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [vb pp] me [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The same morning Mrs Singh had approached me in the school foyer , handed me a bag full of letters , and burst into tears . |
| 2 | Something Neil had told me about the island . |
| 3 | My experience at the Fiesta Club had led me to the conclusion that , on average , a ‘ star ’ lasts about three years before fading to a nonentity and I intended to earn as much as possible in that time and retire — unhurt — with enough capital for a business . |
| 4 | The extraordinary stop-start conversation between Victor and his monster had convinced me of the latter 's supreme dangerousness : given its malevolence , its lying and eloquent tongue was probably as big a threat as its turn of speed . |
| 5 | But once Gyggle had positioned me in the tank — which crouched there like a miniature submarine , or a twenty-first-century washing machine — and swung shut the rubber-flanged door , I found it impossible to lose — and therefore as he hoped , reencounter — my self . |
| 6 | I told him he could have some of the pills Richard had got me from the chemist yesterday . |
| 7 | For half a second you might have thought his fist had smashed me across the room , except that I follow through my dive into a roll and end up squatting on the floor , eight feet away , with the pistol pointing straight at his guts . |
| 8 | I turned to find that a girl had joined me at the bar . |
| 9 | I felt proud that Mr Rochester had trusted me with the story of his past life . |
| 10 | This came as something of a surprise , for nothing Victor Saunders had told me about the Priut refuge quite prepared me for my first sight of this three-storey silver sausage — an amazing futuristic construction with a dining room that looks out on a wonderland of peaks , and with some four-bedded dormitories which , if you 're lucky enough to be allocated one , ensures a degree of comfort far different from alpine-style overcrowding . |
| 11 | A member of the Club Animacion Team had volunteered me for the lilo race across the pool — the first prize a free drink — who could resist ! |
| 12 | She had brought her son over from South Africa and while staying in Bristol had seen me on the television screen . |
| 13 | The ball had hit me in the leg . |
| 14 | And it was indescribably eerie — so that I almost began to wonder if Posi had brought me to the right planet . |
| 15 | and er building trade work , both of these things had left me with the qualifications for be abl be able to do it . |
| 16 | The newcomer listened in his turn to the description Mrs Zamzam had given me of the events that led her to run away from Um Al-Farajh , occasionally nodding agreement or interrupting to correct her account . |
| 17 | If a pollster had approached me in the run-up to the election , I would have said I was voting Lib-Dem , because I had a sincere intention of doing so . |
| 18 | We always said that someone at the office called Jenkins had taken me to the local wine bar after work and we 'd run into some old girlfriend of his and Gillian who knew this girl vaguely was with her and we sort of got on immediately and made another date . |
| 19 | The vicar had asked me in the war to do this and erm I was secretary of that and I used to say er , you know you could only do so much because we was n't like housewives today . |
| 20 | Nour had taken me by the shoulders and was pushing me towards the pool . |
| 21 | Nothing in my upbringing had prepared me for the weather , much less the absurd notion of hitchhiking . |
| 22 | It felt like an elephant had hit me in the guts . |
| 23 | I know my father would raise a terrific stink if I told him the Headmistress had grabbed me by the hair and slung me over the playground fence . ’ |
| 24 | The veiled women had reminded me of the nuns . |
| 25 | Whatever musings had abstracted me from the charms of the city fled before the lucidity of that long-drawn-out instant of disaster . |