Example sentences of "[coord] he [verb] me [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he irritates me by repeating things over and over again . ’ |
| 2 | I played his game and he rewarded me with encouraging remarks about my cancer-free future . |
| 3 | ‘ There was one teacher , Mr Richardson , and he encouraged me in all the sports I did , really . |
| 4 | Gaitskell never adopted me in the sense that Harold Wilson did later , but I became quite close to him and he employed me in quasi-political matters . |
| 5 | With one of those insights which showed a mind much subtler than that of many of his contemporaries , he had drawn an analogy between logical positivism and surrealism ; but he told me on this occasion that he had once asked A.J. Ayer , as he then was , what political beliefs were compatible with logical positivism : to which the reply had been , not altogether to his surprise , that they would be decidedly left-wing . |
| 6 | I am bound to say that his personality and his voice with his Glasgow accent were a little disconcerting at first ( I felt rather as if I were being addressed by my highly educated carpenter ) , but he inspired me with such confidence as he went on that I forgot that , and of course one has to recognise that a new era in political life has dawned for England , the old aristocratic school is practically swept out of it , it is the dawn of the new " regime " . |