Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [verb] me [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The old peasant woman whom I visited told me how bad things had been before the Liberation — that she had had 8 children , of whom all but three had died . |
| 2 | Later she phoned to tell me how much lighter she felt , as if a burden had somehow been lifted from her shoulders . |
| 3 | ‘ At the time , you remember , you 'd given me very little information to go on . |
| 4 | That time she 'd told me how lonely and abandoned she felt when she was with her husband , those confessional words , ‘ lonely and abandoned ’ , which usually would have me cringing all over the place , made me shiver . |
| 5 | You forgot to tell me how much I owe . ’ |
| 6 | If I was talking to you on the street and you had asked me where such-and-such a street was , that was all right . |
| 7 | The stench and the bloody process we watched put me off tinned fish for many months . |
| 8 | I knew that I was fearful of describing the girls I 'd met , because I did n't want to fall into the same traps and judgements we had been talking about ; on the other hand , I was not being totally honest in leaving out their descriptions , because in fact how they looked interested me very much . |
| 9 | ‘ Did I tell you I 'ad to run away in the end because he got to fancy me too much ? |
| 10 | I could n't remember the last time he 'd shown me so much affection . |
| 11 | Even so , it did strike me as peculiar that someone who lived by French literature should be so calamitously inadequate at making the basic words of the language sound as they did when her subjects , her heroes ( her paymasters , too , you could say ) first pronounced them . |
| 12 | No , well like I said I mean I did n't think mine had tanned me that much until I saw the photos from Alan 's wedding , I was like a nigger . |
| 13 | He wanted to show me how much he 'd got out of them . |