Example sentences of "my [noun sg] [vb past] me [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | One day in 1916 my driver took me to the town of Loos in Belgium . |
2 | My mum was only a little cross with me. then — mystery and more mystery — my mum took me with the fireman in his car to his house . |
3 | One day my mum sat me on the bed and started talking to me . |
4 | Not today , however , and now my route took me off the road by a stile and up over the hill by an old quarry track . |
5 | ‘ I was very undecided when my agent told me about the offer … ’ |
6 | it was , it was actually there was a programme on television and my husband took me to the doctor and he said he felt I 'd been on it too long , I 'd been on it about six months and when I come off it , I come off it pretty quick and I ended up erm I did n't know what was wrong with me and it ended up I 've now got epilepsy , and they did n't know if it was caused through erm I took a stroke about three four month after that and then I got the epilepsy as well , so they do n't know if that me coming off it |
7 | I found counting breaths in my head helped me through the pain — the intensity of which is a memory . |
8 | On making a very despondent journey home my wife greeted me at the door with the astounding statement that the property had been found and handed into a branch of a building society and the member of the staff had telephoned to inform my wife that it was there to collect . |
9 | My father took me to the Soviet Union when I was very small . |
10 | My father met me in the kitchen . |
11 | George Cripps 's son wrote to the Yorkshire Post in October 1979 : ‘ The remarks of Mr J. McKenna make me smile when I remember some of the things which my father told me about the machinations by various members of the then Football League , which have certainly led me to believe that they were not so simon pure as the image they presented to the public . ’ |
12 | My father told me about the Hound of the Baskervilles . |
13 | ‘ But John Reed knocked me down and my aunt locked me in the red room , ’ I cried . |
14 | My acupuncturist told me about the broad-leafed veg , and I did n't think to ask him what he was on about . |
15 | I understood exam stress thanks to you — my daughter took me to the exams to help keep me calm . |
16 | My predecessor supported me in the Lobby last week , as did the vast majority of the House . |
17 | My master seized me by the arm and pulled me over . |
18 | He had been moved to lighter work three years earlier : ‘ my Master took me from the farm work to do the House Boys work — cleaning the Boots seeing to the wood and coals and sweeping up the back yard and the paths and looking after the poultry . ’ |
19 | There were 23 other pairs — all younger and all seeming to possess the speed of Linford Christie around the court — and , when my partner greeted me with the news that he had been undergoing physiotherapy for a dodgy back all week , I felt that our interest would be peripheral , to say the least . |
20 | I laughed when my mother told me of the entire postnatal fortnight spent in the maternity hospital , with bedpans and blanket baths and fierce ward sisters who wagged fingers at you if you as much as stuck a big toe over the side of the bed . |
21 | My mother told me about the famous people who lived in them . |
22 | By the time I was fourteen I could n't wait to get away from that place and my mother took me to the hiring fair in the marketplace in Bishop Auckland . |
23 | I came to Britain from Cyprus when I was six and , when I was 12 , my mother volunteered me for the job of interpreting for a pregnant neighbour who needed to talk to a doctor . |
24 | My mother grabbed me at the very edge of the roof , just before I toppled the two storeys to the street . |