Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] me [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But then he suddenly dumped me for no apparent reason and left me broken-hearted . |
| 2 | ‘ The sessions not only pointed me in the right direction for obtaining information , they taught me a lot about the sort of questions I should be asking . ’ |
| 3 | It took a while before they finally trusted me with a little cooking . |
| 4 | Kenneth More told me of the unfortunate happenings on the set of The Mercenaries which he made in 1966 in Jamaica with Hollywood star ( though Australian born ) Rod Taylor and American football star Jim Brown . |
| 5 | In fact , we did go down there for a week to explore the possibilities , and I admitted that it was n't what it was and that the rosy glow that still suffused me at the very name was probably nostalgia for my touring days , when it was the most prestigious of all the dates . |
| 6 | They deliberately sent me on a wild goose chase . |
| 7 | They always reminded me of an angry boar 's , small , red-rimmed and vicious — and that 's when he was in a good mood ! |
| 8 | It has become a cliche to say that Prague is the most beautiful city in Europe , but that fact still struck me as a stunning truth on this , my first visit there . |
| 9 | She always struck me as a ginger nut sort of person . |
| 10 | There was a period of incredibly intense excitement which , I think , probably sustained me for the next five or ten years . |
| 11 | The Minister also told me in a written reply about the education and social opportunities that were available to young offenders . |
| 12 | Gradually I drifted apart from Beth and Ida , but I am always grateful to them because they also introduced me to the other great interest in their lives — ballet . |
| 13 | Someone also presented me with an electric washer but I have never been able to use it because there is n't water in the house and I would n't be able to understand it anyway . |
| 14 | What really attracted me to the whole idea was that June said : ‘ Personally I think it is the greatest thing since sliced bread . ’ |
| 15 | She often told me of the nightly air-raids , her parents worn out from fire-watching , houses in the familiar streets suddenly plunged into dust , people suddenly gone , news of sons lost at the Front . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'm not as bitter as I was , but I heard a lot of evidence about these war crimes and it really shook me as a young lad . |
| 17 | The Maggot now ordered me into the right-hand pilot 's seat and told me to keep my thieving hands off his knobs . |
| 18 | And I would be always be with John in the stable and I got until I got into er some danger walking er underneath a horses legs and he 'd he 'd send me out banned me from the stable and shut the door . |
| 19 | I said that literary work often left me with a depressed feeling . |
| 20 | Wyndham Lewis kindly provided me with a similar introduction to James Joyce . |
| 21 | ‘ Its note is a loud ringing and very peculiar sound , somewhat resembling the worlds Clink , clink , several times repeated , and strongly reminded me of the distant sound of the stroke on a blacksmith 's anvil , and hence the term ‘ arguta ’ appeared to me to be an appropriate specific appellation for this new species . ’ |
| 22 | I bought another dress in Barnard Castle made from very fine material with a flared skirt , and the Daily Mail kindly presented me with a broad-brimmed floral hat and a pair of white gloves to take some very nice photographs . |
| 23 | I was there on my own , because the Yorkshire Television film crew had been positioned on the roof of the Palace , and would have been quite at a loss but a lady from the Yorkshire Post spotted me and kindly accompanied me for a little while . |
| 24 | I am greatly indebted to the personal efforts of Stanley Turner , who very kindly supplied me with an ample selection of prints as well as many of the obscure details of Peto 's life . |
| 25 | She-She then parked me in the aromatic cubicle . |
| 26 | And she says her day with Becky and the team was a revelation : ‘ The Granada Reports people came to my house to film me in some of my own clothes and then took me to the Hillcrest Hotel in Widnes where I had my hair styled and my make-up done , and then tried on lots of different outfits . |
| 27 | She returned a few minutes later and somewhat grudgingly led me into a little room at the back . |
| 28 | My father went mad and I think he actually hated me for a short while . |
| 29 | The agent never treated me as a serious buyer because I did n't fit his image of a businessman ’ ) , the adaptation process began . |
| 30 | ‘ To see if you really feared me , if you truly saw me as a shady villain ! |