Example sentences of "[vb past] me [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were times when Joanna 's somewhat footslogging performance made me long for the thoroughbred feel of Lisa , but I had an affection for Joanna and she had one advantage over Lisa — her small cuddy where I could cook and sleep , and be independent of the land . |
| 2 | I wanted to go out last week , but he said , ‘ No way , you 're not going out there ’ , and he made me stay in the whole week . |
| 3 | They made me feel like a dirty slag and serve me right for getting pregnant . |
| 4 | SHE MADE ME FEEL LIKE A MUSICAL INSTRUMENT . |
| 5 | It made me feel like an old sock ! |
| 6 | They made me go through the whole thing three times , though I had hardly anything to tell them . |
| 7 | When it was over , she walked across to the television , switched it off , turned to look at Charlotte and said : ‘ They made me sound like an unfeeling bitch . ’ |
| 8 | Tommaso made me look like a mature man , an important man . |
| 9 | I 'm sure a healthy body leads to a healthy mind and that helped me cope with the daily pressures of newspaper life . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ It was a psychological tonic which helped me to cope with a silent Parliament . |
| 11 | Once , whilst in Venice , the Inquisition caught me , tried and condemned me to burn in the great piazza before St Mark 's . |
| 12 | Nobody told me to become a stand-up comedian and nobody told me to go on the fucking telly . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ The police told me to turn in the opposite direction . |
| 14 | And squeamishness prevented me looking for a tiny insect to place on a sticky dewdrop leaf . |
| 15 | An elaborate version of pass the parcel , which allowed me to travel around the southern part of the state doing workshops in a variety of places . |
| 16 | Carel Weight visited Wimbledon and encouraged me to try for the Royal College . |
| 17 | He handed me a toffee , climbed into his car , beckoned me to sit on the other front seat for a few minutes , and removed the celluloid sidescreen to give us more fresh air . |
| 18 | I was recently talking to the mother of a four year old boy about his progress at learning his letters , when I realized just how responsible and vulnerable she felt about his lack of progress , and that started me thinking about the educational process and the pressures that we put on ourselves and our children to succeed . |
| 19 | ‘ We were from different cultures , but they kept me going through the bad times . |
| 20 | I had planned the journey here to Salisbury with considerable care , avoiding almost entirely the major roads ; the route might have seemed unnecessarily circuitous to some , but then it was one that enabled me to take in a fair number of the sights recommended by Mrs J. Symons in her excellent volumes , and I must say I was well pleased with it . |
| 21 | A few days later , immediately alongside the busy M40 , a pause at traffic-lights enabled me to glance at a dense assembly of birds , as closely-packed as starlings , extending for almost a quarter of a mile along the edge of the arable field , and I was able to identify them as a mixture of Lapwing and ‘ goldies , ’ all immobile , and many of the latter with their heads tucked in as if fast asleep . |
| 22 | Anna had me baptized by a Catholic priest . |
| 23 | So did I. He had me figured for a working stiff out to do the day 's chores , and he was n't going to bother an upright member of the community . |
| 24 | Well I worked there and then er quite a bit I had to w they had me working on the main road . |
| 25 | Andy , my anaesthesiologist , gave me a smile and a pre-med jab and left me to float in a warm sea-green calm which was interrupted by the slap of rubber swing-doors and a breathless , ‘ Hi , my name 's Nudleman . |
| 26 | I nursed my damaged finger , and showed it to anyone who wanted me to join in the rough stuff . |