Example sentences of "[vb base] me in [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I betrayed the pact between myself and The Fat Controller he would undoubtedly destroy me , fillet me , excarnate me in the screaming void . |
| 2 | ‘ You know you put me in a bad position going off like that . |
| 3 | While I ca n't say I actually enjoyed the experience — as usual , two shirts flaked me out and put me in a bad mood for the rest of the day — I did find the whole process a whole lot easier on the nerves than throwing a glass of water across a shirt in the hope that somehow the creases , along with the water , would eventually evaporate . |
| 4 | A tall and smartly dressed Englishwoman took my hand and put me in a chauffeur-driven car and , suddenly , after three months of confinement behind barbed-wire fences , we were driving away , through the barrier and down the lanes thick and bright with the leaves and flowers of spring . |
| 5 | ‘ The police took me to prison without a change of clothes , put me in an awful cell , I was amazed that I was accused . ’ |
| 6 | You put me in an embarrassing position . ’ |
| 7 | When I was running away they put me in an approved school for girls run by nuns . |
| 8 | They put me in an isolated pit for the first few weeks . |
| 9 | I won , which put me in the final contest between all the winners of the ‘ All Winners ’ contest which was to be televised , live , from the London Palladium in July . |
| 10 | On the day I drew peg 45 which put me in the private meadow below the Teme mouth . |
| 11 | I mean look at myself , my father was a doctor , his father was a schoolteacher , so the way one used to look at things , that immediately when I was born put me in the middle class erm bracket . |
| 12 | Those of us who did n't join up until 1943 , either because we were too young or like me in a reserved occupation , did n't really stand much chance of promotion , not unless we were absolutely brilliant and not many of us were that . |
| 13 | Do you think you could pull me up and then point me in an easterly direction once we 're outside ? |
| 14 | His palms cradle me in a green cup |
| 15 | People see me in a certain way at school , as someone outspoken and good at English ; then they see me with my head covered , and suddenly they seem to be thinking : submissive . |
| 16 | People have me in a little pocket of their minds in that role [ Ben Braddock ] and they do n't want to see me get out of it . |