Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] me [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | I checked my hexagram against the index , which led me to the pages headed Ta Kuo : Preponderance of the Great . |
| 2 | It was he who told me about the injuries the King received . |
| 3 | When you told me about the horoscopes , did n't I tell you I wanted to help ? |
| 4 | ‘ Did you care when you walked out on me the day that you told me about the notes and the wine glass , and then Rebecca came back to the office ? |
| 5 | As she hauled me up the stairs I braced myself for ‘ What the blazes , Bina ? |
| 6 | I tried boxing when I was fifteen and won a bout against an opponent who was smaller than me and who normally wore thick glasses ; I went on to the second round of the competition and was beaten flat in thirty seconds by a demon midget who hammered me onto the ropes and kept hitting me until the referee stopped the bout before I suffered permanent damage . |
| 7 | But then she scratched me between the ears and I started purring despite myself . |
| 8 | He described a life so different from my own that I could not have imagined it — ‘ She loved me for the dangers I had passed , and I loved her , that she did pity them . ’ |
| 9 | She pulled me off the streets really . ’ |
| 10 | brought , brought one of those padded things sort of orange things and she pulled me to the steps |
| 11 | She took me into the nurses ' changing-room . |
| 12 | She looked me in the eyes , not smiling . |
| 13 | From the very first time you took me to the pictures , you started to change me , shape me in your own image , make me like you . |
| 14 | Mostly she quizzed me about the burglars and I said they 'd tried to get in through the bathroom window and one of them had put a foot through it , probably coming from the roof next door , and I generally made out that there was a whole gang of footpads up there lying in wait for Santa Claus . |
| 15 | You will recall , however , that before you vanished from our lives you entrusted me with the notes you had kept while working on the Big Glass and the Green Box , telling me I could do what I liked with them , and adding , in your usual sensitive way , that I could always use them to wipe my arse if the paper decided to sack me and I found myself really hard up . |
| 16 | During an opera we had a lighting change and they misinformed me about the weights . |
| 17 | ‘ They tried to pull me into a scrum once and they invited me into the showers with them ’ — GAIL PARKER ( a lady referee ) on problems encountered when trying to control men . |
| 18 | They drove me to the police station . |
| 19 | They threw me from the battlements into the sea , but the rocks were merciless and did not kill me , though I have never longed for death so much as I did then . |
| 20 | They hacked me in the ribs and then proceeded to batter me about the head . |
| 21 | They kept me in the police station for two weeks : nobody knew where I was , not even my solicitor . |
| 22 | They reminded me of the passengers on board a hijacked plane , forced to fly to some destination they did n't want to go to , yet unable to get out of their seats to do something about it . |
| 23 | They dragged me to the Police Station where I had to make a detailed statement of everything that had happened the first time intercourse took place . |
| 24 | And so saying , he led me over the fields to his childhood home . |
| 25 | And he led me towards the hills |
| 26 | He helped me with the goats and with the work in the cornfields , and soon we were good friends . |
| 27 | He approached me in the Limes Club in Sheffield and said if I signed with him , he would fill my book and raise my fee — a promise which he fulfilled . |
| 28 | Finally , he showed me off the premises with the injunction , accompanied by a theatrical wink , that I should get straight on to him if I ever had any bother . |
| 29 | Welford said : ‘ He grabbed me by the lapels and cuffed me across the face , but I shielded myself from the rest of his blows . ’ |
| 30 | He took me through the stages a beginner would complete in preparation for a skiing holiday . |