Example sentences of "[vb past] me [adv] [prep] the [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 | Why you ever asked me down in the first place is still a mystery to me . |
| 3 | He led me through to the next room , and up against the wall there lay a stack of some ten to fifteen canvases . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ That 's really what drew me here in the first place , ’ he said quietly . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Iain filled me in on the essential details while I was devouring that gargantuan breakfast . |
| 8 | ‘ Psst — Jack , ’ I hissed as he joined me damply in the breeze-filled tent . |
| 9 | 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 ! " |
| 10 | ‘ When you killed me back at the Miskatonic ? |
| 11 | Then Melinda kindly guided me outside into the harsh sunlight of the street . |
| 12 | 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 ! |
| 13 | Now relaxed and talkative , he saw me back to the waiting taxi and told me of his ambitions as a Gaelic football player . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | My decision early on to build site-specific works in steel took me out of the traditional studio . |
| 16 | In 1986 I cultivated new ambitions which took me out of the British orbit and on to a higher plane . |
| 17 | They took me out with the wounded . |
| 18 | He put me on a stretcher , had me carried about half a mile across fields to an ambulance , which in turn took me down to the local advanced dressing station . |
| 19 | The Men came for me where I huddled in the marram grass and they took me back to the low cage . |
| 20 | They took me all over the Ursuline convent … and to meet the Reverend Mother — an old Irishwoman . |
| 21 | I do n't suppose I was more than 10 when the harvesters sent me off to the nearest pub to get some cider in a couple of bottles . |
| 22 | He expressed interest in the article for Leavis , which had been called ‘ Scrutiny of Modern Greats ’ , and he questioned me closely about the general intellectual mood at Oxford . |
| 23 | They were shooed away by the Sheikha , who rebuked them for being naughty and greeted me almost in the same breath . |
| 24 | A cow once kicked me nearly to the other end of the byre and as I picked myself up the farmer said unemotionally , " Aye , she 's allus had a habit o' that . " |
| 25 | He shot me again in the right-hand side of my body . ’ |
| 26 | He never wanted me there in the first place . |
| 27 | My priestly friend set me down outside the two cathedrals and I bade him a fond farewell . |
| 28 | Quite suddenly he let go and sort of pushed me away at the same time . |
| 29 | His eyes now lit by a weak leer of hope , Barometer Barnes closed me out on the pink 35–43 . |
| 30 | He conducted me back down the cold stone steps by the scruff of my neck and soon I found myself back in the street again . |