Example sentences of "he [verb] me [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I next saw the King , he asked me about this experience . |
| 2 | He received me with grave courtesy and enquired after my family . |
| 3 | He told me about this condition quite openly , including the impulse to throw himself over cliffs etc . |
| 4 | He told me of one case he had had of a woman in her early twenties . |
| 5 | He was an assiduous and permanent gambler of modest sums , He told me on one occasion that any year in which he did not win £1,000 was by his standards a failure . |
| 6 | With one of those insights which showed a mind much subtler than that of many of his contemporaries , he had drawn an analogy between logical positivism and surrealism ; but he told me on this occasion that he had once asked A.J. Ayer , as he then was , what political beliefs were compatible with logical positivism : to which the reply had been , not altogether to his surprise , that they would be decidedly left-wing . |
| 7 | He told me with simple gravity , as a matter decided and not to be discussed , that he had decided to resign his office . |
| 8 | ‘ To see the trash ! ’ he told me with childlike frankness . |
| 9 | He acknowledged this when he told me in fluent English that he wanted to do a post-graduate degree in biology in the States . |
| 10 | Fif always seems a little surly with me , because he blames me for some trouble he had on another world . |
| 11 | But we forgot to dispose of the discarded furnishings , and six months later when I went to spend a few days with a senior Burmese colleague , he showed me with great satisfaction his small-town church , furnished with the discarded pews , pulpit , litany desks , with the collection bags being changed according to the ecclesiastical season ! |
| 12 | The very first film I made with Roy he took me to one side and he said ’ you 've been working a lot in the theatre and you 're playing to the back row of the the dress circle which is right for the theatre . ’ |
| 13 | I wanted to lash out at them : Vern did n't help me , I do n't need anyone to help me — he took me to this boat alone at night and we … |
| 14 | he took me round that corner for three times today . |
| 15 | To do this he sent me to another sort of specialist who inserted through my neck a needle containing blue dye , guided it with the help of a television screen into the top of my spinal cord and then watched its progress as it trickled down . |
| 16 | ‘ You remember how angry Alain became when he saw me with that book ? ’ she said . |
| 17 | Jim Pickering was one of the four : ‘ I was Red 2 in company with Red I and Green Section when I saw a Ju88 engaged by A.A. about 1,000 feet above us … he saw me at this height and turned in a circle onto my tail . |
| 18 | I am bound to say that his personality and his voice with his Glasgow accent were a little disconcerting at first ( I felt rather as if I were being addressed by my highly educated carpenter ) , but he inspired me with such confidence as he went on that I forgot that , and of course one has to recognise that a new era in political life has dawned for England , the old aristocratic school is practically swept out of it , it is the dawn of the new " regime " . |
| 19 | He introduced me to this world that I had never really come across before . |
| 20 | On the contrary , he greeted me with easy cordiality and asked : ‘ What do you think of cigars ? ’ |
| 21 | He greeted me with scrupulous courtesy and a welcoming smile . |
| 22 | It was worthwhile , though — not only did he make me feel young and raunchy again , he left me with enough self-esteem to believe in my capabilities as a single mother . ’ |