Example sentences of "[vb past] me [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I wished everyone goodnight and he led me upstairs into a small dormitory room . |
| 3 | ‘ That 's really what drew me here in the first place , ’ he said quietly . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Balvinder Singh dropped me outside during a brief pause in the rain . |
| 6 | ‘ Psst — Jack , ’ I hissed as he joined me damply in the breeze-filled tent . |
| 7 | A friend collected me and whisked me away to a quieter part of the island . |
| 8 | Then Melinda kindly guided me outside into the harsh sunlight of the street . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | They took me all over the Ursuline convent … and to meet the Reverend Mother — an old Irishwoman . |
| 12 | ‘ Doctor Henry Jekyll sent me here on an important matter . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | They were shooed away by the Sheikha , who rebuked them for being naughty and greeted me almost in the same breath . |
| 15 | 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 . " |
| 16 | He shot me again in the right-hand side of my body . ’ |
| 17 | As conditions were calm and my position at that time left me right for a downwind left join in an easterly direction , I elected to land this way and flew a normal downwind base and approach . |
| 18 | He never wanted me there in the first place . |
| 19 | Quite suddenly he let go and sort of pushed me away at the same time . |