Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] me [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had heard the bell toll … the wave of ecstasy which drove me on to this shore had pressed me into a dark , dull interior . |
| 2 | They had provided me with a small team of assistants and advisers , and a more agreeable collection of people one could not have found . |
| 3 | The owner had known me for a long time and asked me if I could run a brothel . |
| 4 | ‘ Not unless one of them had asked me for a spare key — and no-one did . ’ |
| 5 | A young , innocent man , very knowledgeable about ferrets , the driver had led me across a scrubby field that led to the riverbank and had then triumphantly pointed to a weathered stone below a thorn bush . |
| 6 | I was slumped against him , almost fainting , conscious only that he had led me behind a red-brick loggia , obviously so that we would be out of sight of the people in the main concourse while he dispatched me . |
| 7 | If people had taken me as a sincere , genuine man who was worried , I think we could have avoided all that has happened . |
| 8 | I said when I was told the Echo had seconded me to a new day job , a comic career move . |
| 9 | I said when I was told the Echo had seconded me to a new day job , a comic career move . |