Example sentences of "he [vb past] me [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 When I next saw the King , he asked me about this experience .
2 He asked me for 50,000 francs for Félix .
3 He beat me at New Marske and he was a target for me in this one . ’
4 He received me with grave courtesy and enquired after my family .
5 He told me about this condition quite openly , including the impulse to throw himself over cliffs etc .
6 He told me of one case he had had of a woman in her early twenties .
7 Over the years , he told me on many occasions of his first day in business at Wilton when a young man .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 He told me with simple gravity , as a matter decided and not to be discussed , that he had decided to resign his office .
11 ‘ To see the trash ! ’ he told me with childlike frankness .
12 He acknowledged this when he told me in fluent English that he wanted to do a post-graduate degree in biology in the States .
13 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 !
14 So I went and saw a building contractor , friend of me Dads and er he welcomed me with open arms , he 'd just got a contract for building council houses down Dunson Street at Netherfield .
15 Nervously reading from a statement , she said : ‘ He kissed me on both cheeks and placed his hand on my waist .
16 He humiliated me in other ways too .
17 Gaitskell never adopted me in the sense that Harold Wilson did later , but I became quite close to him and he employed me in quasi-political matters .
18 I played his game and he rewarded me with encouraging remarks about my cancer-free future .
19 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 . ’
20 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 …
21 Then he took me in both hands and pushed my legs into the top of the bone .
22 he took me round that corner for three times today .
23 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 .
24 ‘ You remember how angry Alain became when he saw me with that book ? ’ she said .
25 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 .
26 And I told him what me problem was and what he ended up doing was , he put me on six Valium a day , which did no help whatsoever , y'know what I mean .
27 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 " .
28 He introduced me to good restaurants in Paris , good food in Lugano , and good wines in New York .
29 He introduced me to this world that I had never really come across before .
30 On the contrary , he greeted me with easy cordiality and asked : ‘ What do you think of cigars ? ’
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