Example sentences of "[vb past] me [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The crane then lowered me down towards the two men underneath me who shouted for me to put my arms out so that they could grab me . |
| 2 | ‘ When I was at drama school , they paired me off with a lovely actor who was only five foot eight and we had to play husband and wife ! |
| 3 | Why you ever asked me down in the first place is still a mystery to me . |
| 4 | He led me through to the next room , and up against the wall there lay a stack of some ten to fifteen canvases . |
| 5 | I arrived early and he led me upstairs to a comfortable polish-scented lounge and made coffee , before returning to the bar to finish off . |
| 6 | I wished everyone goodnight and he led me upstairs into a small dormitory room . |
| 7 | Ward had his camera with him , and though he led me round at a breathless pace , talking all the time about the terrible religious cult of the Aztecs , he also took quite a few pictures , usually with myself or some other human in the foreground to give an indication of the scale of the place . |
| 8 | I lit a cigarette , whose first jab doubled me up with an unmufflable bark of outrage from my lungs . |
| 9 | The next day they moved me up to the second floor to work with Mr Perkins , a weird old guy who smelt of dogs and cleaned his ears out with the lid from his ballpoint pen . |
| 10 | ‘ That 's really what drew me here in the first place , ’ he said quietly . |
| 11 | If she caught me now in the front hall she would waste a good ten minutes warning me that I was risking tuberculosis and a gastric ulcer by being too late to eat a proper meal quietly , and probably throw in the chances of my poisoning a patient with the wrong drug before the night was out through carelessness induced by my own lack of blood-sugar . |
| 12 | I was sure that his status as head of the herd helped me out in an unpleasant encounter . |
| 13 | I knew the clubhouse well from my amateur days and I quickly turned left , went through the main lounge ( to the horror of one member who recognised me not as a former amateur golfer but as a caddie , God dammit ) , through the back of the already busy bar and through the goods entrance , or exit in this case . |
| 14 | Balvinder Singh dropped me outside during a brief pause in the rain . |
| 15 | One told me how on a cold winter 's day of driving rain , her only refuge was the car parked outside the house . |
| 16 | Iain filled me in on the essential details while I was devouring that gargantuan breakfast . |
| 17 | ‘ Psst — Jack , ’ I hissed as he joined me damply in the breeze-filled tent . |
| 18 | One punter refers to a typically fateful day : 1 August 1988 - " … the day I returned from a holiday abroad , Harvard telephoned me out of the blue ( 8th April 1986 ) , and a chap who sounded like an enthusiastic young cockney told me how wonderful Towerbell was and that it was going places with top stars in tow ! " |
| 19 | ‘ When you killed me back at the Miskatonic ? |
| 20 | A friend collected me and whisked me away to a quieter part of the island . |
| 21 | Then Melinda kindly guided me outside into the harsh sunlight of the street . |
| 22 | He went into the kitchen and returned with a plate of local delicacies which he offered me together with a little plate , a napkin and a finger-bowl . |
| 23 | That damn' word brought me back to the harsh reality of my situation : not just the discovery of a traitor or bringing a murderer to book but vengeance for Agnes and , of course , the Herculean task which the Great Killer had assigned me ! |
| 24 | Now relaxed and talkative , he saw me back to the waiting taxi and told me of his ambitions as a Gaelic football player . |
| 25 | and cleaned me up with a large whitewash brush . |
| 26 | We stood eyeing each other for a few minutes and then to my amazement a jeep came up ; the farmer saw my problem and not only gave me a lift past the bull but took me right to the main road where the bike was . |
| 27 | My decision early on to build site-specific works in steel took me out of the traditional studio . |
| 28 | In 1986 I cultivated new ambitions which took me out of the British orbit and on to a higher plane . |
| 29 | They took me out with the wounded . |
| 30 | Eduardo took me out to a nearby restaurant on the Tuesday evening , saying he was too lazy to cook and that he does not often nowadays have any or many chances to take women out ( ! ) , so in return on the Wednesday I got food to make up the rest of a meal using two wild ducks had generously given me to roast , and we had the second one cold on the Thursday after my second meeting . |