Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [verb] me [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A typical example — and there are many of these — was when he patiently sat through a high level Air Ministry conference listening to the Mosquito being castigated for its poor night flying qualities ( because of the glare from the exhausts ) , and Boscombe Down recommended that it should never be flown at night , the chairman , as an afterthought , suggested Bennett contribute his views : " I wish someone hid told me about all these faults ' , he replied , " because I have been flying the Masse on OBOE night trials with excellent results " . |
| 2 | ‘ He could n't live with the thought that someone had touched me in that way . |
| 3 | As a child , even though my parents were divorced and my mother did n't have much money , I would scream and shout whenever she tried to put me in some of my sister 's hand-me-downs . |
| 4 | I suppose if you 'd asked me before all this happened , I 'd have said I 'd give in , but I was so angry . |
| 5 | I make this point after returning from a day 's walking near Ullswater when I was approached by a party of walkers who had followed me for some distance thinking that I was headed for the same destination . |
| 6 | Before I left I tried to ring Nassim Nassim , my erstwhile landlord and Sunil 's cousin and , I 'd decided by now , the man who had got me into this mess . |
| 7 | If you had told me about that when I was a child , I would n't have believed you . |
| 8 | so they did put me onto some . |
| 9 | You must have given the driver some bribe , Edward , I do n't know how he managed to help me at all , he was terrified of being caught . ’ |
| 10 | And if we 've got the project quality plan right there should n't be any problems or queries and it did remind me of this Australian er project manager , who I 've mentioned to one or two other people over lunch , who used to sit in a great , a great office , running multimillion pounds ' project and when people came in to complain to him , he used to refer them to the plaque on the wall which said R T F C. |
| 11 | He would later swear that he had cautioned me about this the previous night . |
| 12 | He had taken me for some kind of refugee from the Napoleonic Wars ! |
| 13 | I said , coldly and pompously — he had put me in such a strong , moral position by hitting me — that if he really felt I was such an awful wife , if would be better if we got a divorce . |
| 14 | He made me feel as if he had rescued me from some intellectual gutter , some abyss of boredom . |
| 15 | I knew what he was getting at , of course , and I was so hurt that he should think he had to approach me in such a roundabout fashion — as if I was a terrible , uncharitable woman who had to be coaxed into a simple act of kindness — that I suggested it myself at once , though it was really the last thing I wanted . |
| 16 | Later , from South Africa , he wrote to thank me for this advice , but now he reciprocated by telling me , with great gentleness , that I should not go on hoping , as he himself had searched the P.O.W. lists , and Leslie 's name was not on any of them . |
| 17 | He wanted to use me in some way . |
| 18 | What I still could n't understand was why he wanted to see me at all . |
| 19 | ‘ He wanted to marry me before any of this happened , ’ Ruth said . |
| 20 | Nothing had prepared me for that . |