Example sentences of "[conj] [art] [noun] [vb past] me [verb] " in BNC.

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1 A ticking off at school , or a beating left me encrusted with guilt .
2 Could it have been to make up for Cymbeline 's cheating that the Umpire permitted me to find the sacristy so easily ?
3 I had a grand day at sea , but although the tide helped me to get back the wind did n't , and I used the engine to get back into the Crouch .
4 Although the neighbours made me feel like an evil , uncaring daughter , I knew in my heart that you 'd understand because you always did — I loved you and that was all you needed to know .
5 It had been one of the kindlier gases , so the after-effects left me feeling only as if I has swallowed barbed wire and my brain was battering at the inside of my skull .
6 to stay in Lilliput until the King allowed me to leave .
7 I had a drip to get things going and the registrar wanted me to move off my nice comfy bed and climb onto the couch to have an epidural .
8 And the bravado caused me to forget about caution and to head for a place that I 'd earlier avoided — because it was my favourite night-spot in Uulaa-la .
9 I did make a bit of fuss about it and the nurse told me to stop moaning .
10 The skills of the midwives were everything I could have wished for and the NCT made me feel as if I was a useful part of the whole process .
11 and the doctor advised me to take him back to Rhodesia
12 I could hear myself groaning like an old pig ! and the doctor told me to use all that energy I was expending on the noise to push with !
13 ‘ I thought it rather spiteful but the Prince ordered me to burn them .
14 But the Bookman asked me to keep our meeting a secret .
15 I remember ‘ laying down a fleece ’ that I would not proceed towards the ordained ministry unless the Lord enabled me to lead another to Christ before a certain date : there is nothing that concentrates the mind as such an agreement with God !
16 ‘ I was attracted to it because the script made me laugh and it 's a splendid play .
17 Because the colonel asked me to keep an eye on you . ’
18 When the Abwehr recruited me to go to Ireland in forty-one I did the usual radio and Morse code course . ’
19 When the Editor asked me to write this article I happily agreed .
20 When the doctor saw me sitting beside the boy a puzzled look crossed his face .
21 When the manager wanted me to work out in the reserves I accepted it .
22 This friend 's possession was temporary as the entity left me to enter her .
23 This fact could not be concealed any more than I could conceal , when a friend invited me to stay with her during the holidays in Yorkshire , that my parents could n't afford the train fare .
24 I just went from person to person and asked if they needed help when a policeman asked me to come and take a look at Johnathan .
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