Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [vb past] me [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 One day in 1916 my driver took me to the town of Loos in Belgium .
2 My mum was only a little cross with me. then — mystery and more mystery — my mum took me with the fireman in his car to his house .
3 One day my mum sat me on the bed and started talking to me .
4 Not today , however , and now my route took me off the road by a stile and up over the hill by an old quarry track .
5 ‘ I was very undecided when my agent told me about the offer … ’
6 I felt strange , almost disembodied , but my feet carried me to the green door and I pushed it open .
7 My senses took me through the bars that confined me .
8 My parents accused me of the murder of my brother .
9 I was very glad that my acquaintances escorted me to the Metro , with instructions to change at Dentfert-Rochereau for the Cité Universitaire , where I had managed to book a room in the Pavillon Franco-Britannique .
10 it was , it was actually there was a programme on television and my husband took me to the doctor and he said he felt I 'd been on it too long , I 'd been on it about six months and when I come off it , I come off it pretty quick and I ended up erm I did n't know what was wrong with me and it ended up I 've now got epilepsy , and they did n't know if it was caused through erm I took a stroke about three four month after that and then I got the epilepsy as well , so they do n't know if that me coming off it
11 I found counting breaths in my head helped me through the pain — the intensity of which is a memory .
12 On making a very despondent journey home my wife greeted me at the door with the astounding statement that the property had been found and handed into a branch of a building society and the member of the staff had telephoned to inform my wife that it was there to collect .
13 I had just got to the part when I told them ‘ You will have to take the oath of allegiance to … ’ when one of my staff tapped me on the shoulder and said ‘ Ma'am , the King is dead . ’
14 My father took me to the Soviet Union when I was very small .
15 My father met me in the kitchen .
16 George Cripps 's son wrote to the Yorkshire Post in October 1979 : ‘ The remarks of Mr J. McKenna make me smile when I remember some of the things which my father told me about the machinations by various members of the then Football League , which have certainly led me to believe that they were not so simon pure as the image they presented to the public . ’
17 My father told me about the Hound of the Baskervilles .
18 ‘ But John Reed knocked me down and my aunt locked me in the red room , ’ I cried .
19 My acupuncturist told me about the broad-leafed veg , and I did n't think to ask him what he was on about .
20 I understood exam stress thanks to you — my daughter took me to the exams to help keep me calm .
21 The second day continued where the first day left off : four catches by Hick to equal the record for a Test against Pakistan originally set by the little-remembered spinner Jim McConnon of Glamorgan in 1954 , and then my researches led me to the remarkable fact that John Birch , who played for Notts from 1973 to 1988 , was known as ‘ Bonk ’ .
22 My predecessor supported me in the Lobby last week , as did the vast majority of the House .
23 My fins hit me in the chest .
24 My master seized me by the arm and pulled me over .
25 He had been moved to lighter work three years earlier : ‘ my Master took me from the farm work to do the House Boys work — cleaning the Boots seeing to the wood and coals and sweeping up the back yard and the paths and looking after the poultry . ’
26 There were 23 other pairs — all younger and all seeming to possess the speed of Linford Christie around the court — and , when my partner greeted me with the news that he had been undergoing physiotherapy for a dodgy back all week , I felt that our interest would be peripheral , to say the least .
27 I laughed when my mother told me of the entire postnatal fortnight spent in the maternity hospital , with bedpans and blanket baths and fierce ward sisters who wagged fingers at you if you as much as stuck a big toe over the side of the bed .
28 My mother told me about the famous people who lived in them .
29 By the time I was fourteen I could n't wait to get away from that place and my mother took me to the hiring fair in the marketplace in Bishop Auckland .
30 I came to Britain from Cyprus when I was six and , when I was 12 , my mother volunteered me for the job of interpreting for a pregnant neighbour who needed to talk to a doctor .
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