Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [vb past] me [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within a day the vet phoned me with the news that the dog had two intact testicles ( a matter I 'd hardly been musing upon ) and was suffering from a bit of diarrhoea — but had been put on a milk diet which would soon clear it up . |
| 2 | The driver grabbed me by the shoulder and asked for my fare . |
| 3 | ‘ Everything about the college reminded me about the attack , ’ she explained . |
| 4 | The soldier seized me by the hair and pushed me across the garden . |
| 5 | The dilemma followed me through the publication of a few accounts of my researches . |
| 6 | Were it not for the narrow strip of tar , I would have been stuck hopelessly — several times I was bogged down when the wind blew me off the road . |
| 7 | The Queen received me with the greatest kindness and consideration . |
| 8 | Recently , the Queen invited me to the Windsor Horse show along with my little friend Mohammed Al Fayed , who has a shop in Knightsbridge , the name of which escapes me . |
| 9 | The coach dropped me at the Lofleiđ3ir , a palatial hotel . |
| 10 | I could n't get it out of them who had paid for her , but old Alex the cleaner told me on the side : Boswell , Slim Boswell . ’ |
| 11 | The chairman of the committee telephoned me in the late spring of 1976 to say that they were organising a series of public meetings at Wapping when the committee 's plans for the area would be disclosed to the local population for the purpose of hearing their comments and enquiries . |
| 12 | The boy found me at the sweet shop across the street , and told me of the drama . |
| 13 | The competitiveness in the group reminded me of the casting board at drama school . |
| 14 | The proprietor led me into the windowless gloom . |
| 15 | The proprietor reminded me of the man who used to travel round the Forest villages killing pigs . |
| 16 | The tailor measured me at the height of the deluge . |
| 17 | And the next day — well nearly — the Service put me on the list as an Administration Trainee . |
| 18 | ‘ I shut my eyes , the ball hit me on the nose , and when I opened them it was in the back of the net ’ . |
| 19 | Bowers said : ‘ The ball hit me on the head — I did n't handle it . |
| 20 | Sheridan said : ‘ The ball hit me in the face . |
| 21 | When I came to the third class , the head introduced me as the ‘ expert from London ’ . |
| 22 | Everyone laughed , and the captain clapped me on the back and called me a good fellow . |
| 23 | In its clarity and purity of form , the mosque reminded me of the best early Cistercian architecture — that brief and precious half-century before the original ascetic urge began to give way to the worldly frivolity of the Later Middle Ages , the period that produced the great Chapter House at Fountains and the original dark-stone nave at Rievaulx . |
| 24 | As Nancy slid the first tape into her video machine I settled down to watch her at work , but , throughout , the advice offered me on the screen was interspersed with more from the sofa next to me , where she sat eagerly adding a tumult of tips to those already being relayed . |
| 25 | The farmer put me on the table , with some small pieces of bread and meat in front of me . |
| 26 | The floor punched me in the nose and I stretched out on it . |
| 27 | The man told me on the telly that is the best so |
| 28 | When the captain came back , the man pulled me behind the door . |
| 29 | Bus conductor , , tickets please , tick what 's a matter , mate ? well you know and the man threw me off the train and listen , he goes come on gov , give me the letter I 'll read it . |
| 30 | the man threw me off the bus and he goes all right then , let me read it . |