Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] me [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I skulked down one side of the garden and went through the arch which led me to a walled garden in the middle of which there was a fountain playing . |
| 2 | And when , as shadow education spokesman , I was a frontline campaigner in the nineteen eighty seven election , it was the G M B which provided me with the necessary facilities to carry out that role , and I thank them for it . |
| 3 | Er another thing that I mean thought , somebody told me about the other day er it 's an old thing is er gravel drives . |
| 4 | My own suggestion that we were dealing with a whole nest of Mata Haris was declared plausible but incorrect while Team C , consisting of two middle-aged couples , produced two theories , the second of which named me as a potential mole ! |
| 5 | It was confusing : such self-attention repelled me , and yet it represented a world of sensuality , of smell and touch , of indulgence and feeling , which aroused me like an unexpected caress as I undressed , lit the candles and got into the bath in this room of Eva 's . |
| 6 | It would have been boorish not to return to the Jardin de Paris for lunch , a short walk which took me along the right bank of the Duna to the famous Széchenyi Bridge and Clark Adam tér . |
| 7 | I walked down to the town centre , which reminded me of an English country town , with shops of every kind . |
| 8 | The restaurant is on a lease and I understand that when the lease ran out there was a law which entitled me to a new one . |
| 9 | She met me with a friendly smile , shook my hand and introduced me to the class : ‘ This is Wanda , our new pupil who has come to live in our village . |
| 10 | you met me with an exalted smile |
| 11 | The house we sat in was still in chaos , so she led me to the sunny kitchen , where we talked and drank coffee , surrounded by boxes and plants and the smell of paint . |
| 12 | I waited in the office for an hour before she led me into a darkened side ward . |
| 13 | She led me into the pink-and-green chintzy sitting-room where Harry , pale with blue shadows below the eyes , sat in an armchair with his bandaged leg elevated on a large upholstered footstool . |
| 14 | She led me into the front room where , defensively , she picked up the baby . |
| 15 | And she asked me for the fifty P . |
| 16 | I had no money , and she helped me over the worst times . |
| 17 | Every penny of that meagre capital represented a pleasure foregone , a temptation denied , yet now I found myself wasting it on meals I did n't want with people who regarded me as a poor relative . |
| 18 | She was a scrawny red shorthorn with a woolly poll and she regarded me with a contemplative eye as I bent down . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'm so sorry , Veronica , you caught me at a bad moment , ’ Loretta said apologetically . |
| 20 | Mind you can always say to you caught me at a bad time , you say , it 's supposed to have appointment only , but just say , can you , is there any chance of you coming back . |
| 21 | You helped me in the early days . |
| 22 | She fixed me with a big smile and gave a flirtatious wink from behind her diamond encrusted specs and said : ‘ But I would be happy to invite YOU in Tony . |
| 23 | It was also he who told me of the Great Ones , ’ he went on with a faraway look , ‘ and how they had chosen us to be saved to do this . ’ |
| 24 | That afternoon in the big , empty cinema , I gave him a private showing of the film , and there were many pictures of Danckwerts 's shipmates of thirty years earlier , including an interview I had had with his immediate superior , Captain Helmuth Giessler , the ship 's navigating officer , who told me of the secret preparations he had made for the midnight departure from Brest in February 1942 of the Scharnhorst , Gneisenau and Prinz Eugen on the eve of their audacious dash through the English Channel to Germany . |
| 25 | The one who told me about the five quid . |
| 26 | So when I came back to England , I consulted two elderly ladies , one a doctor , the other a spiritual medium , who work together , and who told me about the past lives I had had . |
| 27 | You know you you told me about the big boat did n't you ? |
| 28 | When you told me about the American girl , I hoped it meant you 'd got over Pickles . |
| 29 | The Australian representative of the Mission , who drove me to the Southern Cross Hotel in Sydney , explained that the Mantela , a Sanderstown boat of 5,000 tons which normally plied between the islands , had just finished a refit in Sydney and was about to sail two days after my arrival . |
| 30 | ‘ WAS IT ONE OF THEM IN-DEPTH things you have to really think about ? ’ asked the cabbie who drove me from A Hard Heart . |