Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [verb] me [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They accused me of going to hit one of them with it … they put me in a police van and took me to Victoria Barracks where they kept me for two hours . |
| 2 | She goes on slowly and naively : ‘ I 'm really glad , in a way , that you took me to that place . |
| 3 | ‘ It was not so much consideration as intuition , for something tells me that you visit me with some strange intelligence . ’ |
| 4 | By your expression , I judge that you suspect me of pseudo-intellectual flim-flam and it is undeniable that our deliberations tended more towards the sybaritic than the Socratic . |
| 5 | ‘ I have three or four : two black Strats , a Les Paul Junior with a neck-through-body — really heavy guitar , sustains really well — a Flying V that they built me with one pickup — neck-through-body also — and a regular Flying V. ’ |
| 6 | yeah well you know it 's okay well you know I well you know yeah it 's just that it worried me about this meeting here and three people out of the five people in the room did n't realise that it was a reservations and booking service . |
| 7 | ‘ But I thank God that He spared me for this ! ’ |
| 8 | ‘ When I was a kid , my Dad was into Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin , so he tainted me with all that , then I got into the punk thing when that was going down . |
| 9 | ‘ And you hate me for all that , of course , ’ Luke accepted neutrally . |
| 10 | Erm and come back to you , perhaps in a week 's time and you talk me through those recommendations . |
| 11 | She is in the early stages of pregnancy , her belly gently swelling inside her pink dress , and she tells me with obvious delight that she is expecting a summer bambino . |
| 12 | I went to Hemel Hempstead er a school called in Hemel Hempstead that was only from the August till December when I left school and then the erm then the Headmistress , cos we had a Headmistress there cos it was a mixed school , and she recommended me for this here errand boy 's job , his name was . |
| 13 | During my stay in her country we were always together , and she saved me from many dangerous situations . |
| 14 | God knows , he thought , I should n't say anything about it if she nagged me in any halfway reasonable manner . |
| 15 | I reminded her of Bobbie and would I mind if she called me by that dear nickname ? |
| 16 | So even now if you wake me at three o'clock in the morning and sing me one bar of Der Rosenkavalier I will be able to carry on from where you start ! |
| 17 | They took me along and they put me into this dormitory . |
| 18 | I had just turned sixteen and they put me in this place that was really for dossers . |
| 19 | ‘ And they reccommend me to other people . |
| 20 | And he irritates me by repeating things over and over again . ’ |
| 21 | I played his game and he rewarded me with encouraging remarks about my cancer-free future . |
| 22 | ‘ There was one teacher , Mr Richardson , and he encouraged me in all the sports I did , really . |
| 23 | Gaitskell never adopted me in the sense that Harold Wilson did later , but I became quite close to him and he employed me in quasi-political matters . |
| 24 | And it worried me to that extent that I almost went without your okay and rang up Terry and said , please fix those blinds , because we have got blinds which cost almost two hundred pounds or something and or a hundred and nineteen pounds , and it seems they ca n't fix them . |
| 25 | Wayne never found his rhythm on his serve and he did not get into the match until he broke me at 5–3 , but I did good enough to win , ’ said the 24-year-old 1991 Wimbledon champion . |
| 26 | To hell with it , I 'll go down fighting , it will break me on my terms if it breaks me at all . |
| 27 | With one of those insights which showed a mind much subtler than that of many of his contemporaries , he had drawn an analogy between logical positivism and surrealism ; but he told me on this occasion that he had once asked A.J. Ayer , as he then was , what political beliefs were compatible with logical positivism : to which the reply had been , not altogether to his surprise , that they would be decidedly left-wing . |
| 28 | I am bound to say that his personality and his voice with his Glasgow accent were a little disconcerting at first ( I felt rather as if I were being addressed by my highly educated carpenter ) , but he inspired me with such confidence as he went on that I forgot that , and of course one has to recognise that a new era in political life has dawned for England , the old aristocratic school is practically swept out of it , it is the dawn of the new " regime " . |
| 29 | Fif always seems a little surly with me , because he blames me for some trouble he had on another world . |
| 30 | I mention this because it brought me into favoured touch with the Commanding Officer for Wales , and through him I was able to gain admittance for Richard to Exeter College , Oxford , for six months prior to his joining the Royal Air Force , a privilege granted to very few cadets . |