Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [verb] me [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A wooden scooter he 'd made tipped me over the handlebars on its maiden voyage and he picked it up and smashed it to smithereens against a lamp-post , as if it were a cobra that had just delivered a fatal bite . |
| 2 | He 'd tried to ring me with the good news but I had been out . |
| 3 | Adventure Training put him in contact with me and after five days Bombardier Michael Goldsmith and a subaltern had come to see me from the Outer Hebrides with a view to offering an army vehicle . |
| 4 | Even more exciting for me was the news that our Principal , Reg Clarke , had decided to entrust me with the command of the first of the 1.5 million pound cruisers to be named Searcher . |
| 5 | Father had promised to take me with the added bonus of an afternoon off school . |
| 6 | Meanwhile , the BBC photographer had arrived to photograph me for the Radio Times . |
| 7 | If I had ever thought of the possibility of being taken prisoner while I was in England , I should have expected all Germans to be like the officer who had tried to interrogate me at the aerodrome or the two soldiers who had brought me from the aerodrome to Amsterdam . |