Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [verb] me [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Several times the cottage tried to throw me from the scuffle boards , one night she succeeded , I got a badly twisted ankle . |
| 2 | My experience at the Fiesta Club had led me to the conclusion that , on average , a ‘ star ’ lasts about three years before fading to a nonentity and I intended to earn as much as possible in that time and retire — unhurt — with enough capital for a business . |
| 3 | The extraordinary stop-start conversation between Victor and his monster had convinced me of the latter 's supreme dangerousness : given its malevolence , its lying and eloquent tongue was probably as big a threat as its turn of speed . |
| 4 | The College wrote to tell me of the embarrassing reply of my referee , and my supervisor got on to Bondi and refreshed his memory . |
| 5 | As a teenager , I laughed off an incident when a nappy horse attempted to deposit me on the wrong side of the railings on a motorway bridge . |
| 6 | For half a second you might have thought his fist had smashed me across the room , except that I follow through my dive into a roll and end up squatting on the floor , eight feet away , with the pistol pointing straight at his guts . |
| 7 | I turned to find that a girl had joined me at the bar . |
| 8 | A member of the Club Animacion Team had volunteered me for the lilo race across the pool — the first prize a free drink — who could resist ! |
| 9 | As I was typing these words , a young friend phoned to tell me about the wonderful summer holiday he had just had with his father . |
| 10 | The ball had hit me in the leg . |
| 11 | The King wanted to take me round the garden . |
| 12 | The front page news continued to amaze me throughout the week : and article on how women will need another 1000 years to match the political and economic clout of men , followed by one on how President Clinton has increased the sales of saxophones by 15 per cent ( you can now order your own limited presidential edition 80 gold-plated for only $795 ) . |
| 13 | If lightning did strike me in the same minute , it would be treated as a miracle . |
| 14 | If a pollster had approached me in the run-up to the election , I would have said I was voting Lib-Dem , because I had a sincere intention of doing so . |
| 15 | My orderly had to roll me on the floor . |
| 16 | The vicar had asked me in the war to do this and erm I was secretary of that and I used to say er , you know you could only do so much because we was n't like housewives today . |
| 17 | Nothing in my upbringing had prepared me for the weather , much less the absurd notion of hitchhiking . |
| 18 | It felt like an elephant had hit me in the guts . |
| 19 | I know my father would raise a terrific stink if I told him the Headmistress had grabbed me by the hair and slung me over the playground fence . ’ |