Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] [vb past] me [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | One day in 1916 my driver took me to the town of Loos in Belgium . |
2 | My mum was only a little cross with me. then — mystery and more mystery — my mum took me with the fireman in his car to his house . |
3 | One day my mum sat me on the bed and started talking to me . |
4 | Not today , however , and now my route took me off the road by a stile and up over the hill by an old quarry track . |
5 | ‘ I was very undecided when my agent told me about the offer … ’ |
6 | it was , it was actually there was a programme on television and my husband took me to the doctor and he said he felt I 'd been on it too long , I 'd been on it about six months and when I come off it , I come off it pretty quick and I ended up erm I did n't know what was wrong with me and it ended up I 've now got epilepsy , and they did n't know if it was caused through erm I took a stroke about three four month after that and then I got the epilepsy as well , so they do n't know if that me coming off it |
7 | I found counting breaths in my head helped me through the pain — the intensity of which is a memory . |
8 | On making a very despondent journey home my wife greeted me at the door with the astounding statement that the property had been found and handed into a branch of a building society and the member of the staff had telephoned to inform my wife that it was there to collect . |
9 | My father took me to the Soviet Union when I was very small . |
10 | My father met me in the kitchen . |
11 | George Cripps 's son wrote to the Yorkshire Post in October 1979 : ‘ The remarks of Mr J. McKenna make me smile when I remember some of the things which my father told me about the machinations by various members of the then Football League , which have certainly led me to believe that they were not so simon pure as the image they presented to the public . ’ |
12 | My father told me about the Hound of the Baskervilles . |
13 | ‘ But John Reed knocked me down and my aunt locked me in the red room , ’ I cried . |
14 | My acupuncturist told me about the broad-leafed veg , and I did n't think to ask him what he was on about . |
15 | I understood exam stress thanks to you — my daughter took me to the exams to help keep me calm . |
16 | My predecessor supported me in the Lobby last week , as did the vast majority of the House . |
17 | My master seized me by the arm and pulled me over . |
18 | He had been moved to lighter work three years earlier : ‘ my Master took me from the farm work to do the House Boys work — cleaning the Boots seeing to the wood and coals and sweeping up the back yard and the paths and looking after the poultry . ’ |
19 | There were 23 other pairs — all younger and all seeming to possess the speed of Linford Christie around the court — and , when my partner greeted me with the news that he had been undergoing physiotherapy for a dodgy back all week , I felt that our interest would be peripheral , to say the least . |
20 | I laughed when my mother told me of the entire postnatal fortnight spent in the maternity hospital , with bedpans and blanket baths and fierce ward sisters who wagged fingers at you if you as much as stuck a big toe over the side of the bed . |
21 | My mother told me about the famous people who lived in them . |
22 | By the time I was fourteen I could n't wait to get away from that place and my mother took me to the hiring fair in the marketplace in Bishop Auckland . |
23 | I came to Britain from Cyprus when I was six and , when I was 12 , my mother volunteered me for the job of interpreting for a pregnant neighbour who needed to talk to a doctor . |
24 | My mother grabbed me at the very edge of the roof , just before I toppled the two storeys to the street . |
25 | Her boy-friend shot me in the leg . ’ |
26 | Her daughter invited me into the house , as one of her mother 's friends , to see the body . |
27 | The sad consequence on the children 's lives of the circumstances of their birth led me to the conclusion that pregnancy in elderly women might not be appropriate and the whole programme was stopped . |
28 | ‘ Look at the poor bugger 's face — ’ His arm hit me across the waist . |
29 | His speech struck me as the feeblest of the day . |
30 | ‘ So your mummy saw me with the boys , did she ? |