Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] me [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then I 'd wondered if some women who 'd stopped me on the path had taken it . |
| 2 | But at least he did n't spot that until he 'd got me on the committee . ’ |
| 3 | The two biffos would have come sneaking through the door , rubbing their hands and telling themselves they 'd got me by the balls , and I 'd have pointed the extinguisher and put out their fire . |
| 4 | Once he 'd introduced me to the Princess , he never said another word . ’ |
| 5 | Well Laura and Gemma wanted to make these pasties and she 'd asked me at the weekend and I did n't have the time because I think Irene came down cos I asked Irene whether she 'd looked after , you know I 'm at college until three , and she said yeah I 'll pick them up and er I could n't get her out at then so I promised she could make them so , I said alright you and Gemma make them , anyway they did very well they made them in about fifteen minutes because we had to go and get Emily at four from school , I said hurry up , hurry up put the water in Emily quick stick them together shove them now and put them in the oven |
| 6 | She looked up at Trent , as if seeing him for the first time : ‘ I 'd have drowned if you 'd left me on the Key . ’ |
| 7 | But he liked gripped me on the arm and then his hand would appear from nowhere during the concert , he like kind of rubbed my arm and are you alright ? |
| 8 | The newcomer listened in his turn to the description Mrs Zamzam had given me of the events that led her to run away from Um Al-Farajh , occasionally nodding agreement or interrupting to correct her account . |
| 9 | I turned to find that a girl had joined me at the bar . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I felt proud that Mr Rochester had trusted me with the story of his past life . |
| 12 | The same morning Mrs Singh had approached me in the school foyer , handed me a bag full of letters , and burst into tears . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The veiled women had reminded me of the nuns . |
| 15 | Nothing in my upbringing had prepared me for the weather , much less the absurd notion of hitchhiking . |
| 16 | She had brought her son over from South Africa and while staying in Bristol had seen me on the television screen . |
| 17 | But once Gyggle had positioned me in the tank — which crouched there like a miniature submarine , or a twenty-first-century washing machine — and swung shut the rubber-flanged door , I found it impossible to lose — and therefore as he hoped , reencounter — my self . |
| 18 | I had expected , perhaps because the image she had presented me with the week before had been more domestic , someone less ambiguous and far less assured . |
| 19 | Something Neil had told me about the island . |
| 20 | This came as something of a surprise , for nothing Victor Saunders had told me about the Priut refuge quite prepared me for my first sight of this three-storey silver sausage — an amazing futuristic construction with a dining room that looks out on a wonderland of peaks , and with some four-bedded dormitories which , if you 're lucky enough to be allocated one , ensures a degree of comfort far different from alpine-style overcrowding . |
| 21 | Only the sound of the engine , and my eyes shifting from the mist and the road to take covert glances at his face ; I knew no more about him now than when I first met him , except what he had told me on the flight down from Mexico . |
| 22 | Whatever musings had abstracted me from the charms of the city fled before the lucidity of that long-drawn-out instant of disaster . |
| 23 | I told him he could have some of the pills Richard had got me from the chemist yesterday . |
| 24 | The policeman who had kicked me in the groin began to slap Russell around the head . |
| 25 | 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 . ’ |
| 26 | 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 ! |
| 27 | They were the same officers that had arrested me for the charge I was on . |
| 28 | He had dumped me on the surface just as he had found me . |
| 29 | As with so many worldly matters , it was Lawrence who had introduced me to the gravel and grain method of 241 humane culling , but only the theory of it ; I 'd never yet tried it in the field . |
| 30 | 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 . |