Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [vb pp] me [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | but he 'd just told me about the housing with the car and everything . |
| 2 | He 'd already stabbed me in the heart several times before that with other ladies , but at least this time , there was a lady that I liked immensely . |
| 3 | He had already told me on the Friday at the training session , and in front of about 20 of the lads , that I was n't in the team . |
| 4 | It was going to be a long night , as I also had to finish an already over-due essay on Swedish expansion in the seventeenth century ( it would have to be a goodish one , too ; an earlier remark — made in an unguarded moment during a methodically boring tutorial — ascribing Swedish territorial gains in the Baltic to the invention of the Smorgasbord with its take-what-you-want ethic , had not endeared me to the professor concerned ; nor had my subsequent discourse on the innate frivolity of the Swedes , despite what I thought was the irrefutable argument that no nation capable of giving a Peace Prize to Henry Kissinger could possibly be accused of lacking a sense of humour . |
| 5 | I 'm told it 's nothing personal ( it 's never anything personal in racing — a fellow who had just put me through the wing at Naas visited me in hospital to tell me it was nothing personal ) , but the end result is the same . |
| 6 | Needless to say , no one had ever told me about the pain , and I became convinced that something was wrong with me , but I was too embarrassed to confess as much to anyone . |
| 7 | Racks and Torments ! dost think , Child , that my Limbs were made for leaping of Ditches , and clambring over Stiles ; or that my Parents wisely foreseeing my future Happiness in Country-pleasures , had early instructed me in the rural Accomplishments of drinking fat Ale , playing at Whisk , and smoaking Tobacco with my Husband ; or of spreading of Plaisters , brewing of Diet-drinks , and stilling Rosemary-Water with the good old Gentlewoman , my Mother-in-Law … . |
| 8 | The only reason I was here was because Joyce , who was to spend the first two days at the Centre with me , had continuously reminded me on the journey that the decision to go to Bristol had been mine and mine alone . |
| 9 | I 'd been hurt — the man I thought loved me had not only jilted me and stolen my money , but admitted that he had n't wanted me in the first place . |
| 10 | I demure about continuing and if our support had n't forced me towards the river then the watching crowd would have done so . |
| 11 | There were a few nasty expletives in the air and the thought that , if they had n't told me about the dyke , what might I encounter later on ? |
| 12 | The lady had cordially assured me at the outset that I was free " to party with anybody I liked the look of " ( this , except for the half-ounce bikini she wore , being her only hint that what we were sitting in was n't a beauty parlour or seminar room but actually a brothel . |