Example sentences of "[verb] me in an [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'll definitely stick to wearing them in the future , ’ he told me in an exclusive interview . |
| 2 | ‘ The police took me to prison without a change of clothes , put me in an awful cell , I was amazed that I was accused . ’ |
| 3 | You put me in an embarrassing position . ’ |
| 4 | When I was running away they put me in an approved school for girls run by nuns . |
| 5 | They put me in an isolated pit for the first few weeks . |
| 6 | ‘ People were hugging and kissing each other as my car powered its way to the finish as they joined me in an early celebration . |
| 7 | Even before I had learned to walk my eldest sister used to dump me in an orange box on the pavement next to Granpa 's pitch just to be sure I could start my apprenticeship early . |
| 8 | Sue now weighs 8st 3lbs ( 52 kg ) and tells me in an accompanying letter that her weight loss and subsequent new figure has completely changed her life in every respect . |
| 9 | Do you think you could pull me up and then point me in an easterly direction once we 're outside ? |
| 10 | ‘ This does n't put me in an embarrassing situation , it puts Ian Wright in one . |
| 11 | ‘ You 've put me in an impossible position , ’ Modigliani said angrily . |
| 12 | However , to go on justifying ends by further ends will involve me in an infinite regress unless I arrive at a terminus in something that I do for its own sake . |