Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] me [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Er another thing that I mean thought , somebody told me about the other day er it 's an old thing is er gravel drives . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | She led me into the front room where , defensively , she picked up the baby . |
| 7 | And she asked me for the fifty P . |
| 8 | I had no money , and she helped me over the worst times . |
| 9 | You helped me in the early days . |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The one who told me about the five quid . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | You know you you told me about the big boat did n't you ? |
| 15 | When you told me about the American girl , I hoped it meant you 'd got over Pickles . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | She was interested to find out that I liked British history ; she told me about the Medieval Circle . |
| 18 | ‘ He 's so repressed , Eddie , ’ she told me after the first time . |
| 19 | She left her second cup of tea , and she followed me to the front door . |
| 20 | The Fernies got rid of her when I left and she walked me to the front gate . |
| 21 | I was met at the door by the commander of the bodyguard , who introduced me to the domestic staff — the cooks , the maids , the rest of the bodyguard and the gardener . |
| 22 | She had such colour , such brightness , that sometimes she reminded me of the whirling mosaics , except that she was n't fragmented but unusually complete . |
| 23 | Five years ago , you nominated me for the National Executive of the Labour Party . |
| 24 | Like the dozens of blue uniformed Serbs , who hold the high ground around outlying Serbian villages to the east of Sarajevo , the bands of Muslims who greeted me on the other side with loud applause expected I would somehow provide aid . |
| 25 | Padding out as silently as she came , she left me to the early morning quiet . |
| 26 | They helped me over the next road , me nearly tripping as I crossed the far kerb . |
| 27 | They advised me of the best route to take home — and by the best they meant the most fun , not the quickest . |
| 28 | They viewed me with the same puzzled look as I later saw on the faces of nomads miles from civilization . |
| 29 | They remembered me from the previous year too . |
| 30 | They remembered me from the old days . ’ |