Example sentences of "he [verb] [prep] me [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 " Mackerel , Ron ! " he whispered to me on the bridge .
2 He looks at me for the first time .
3 In any case , it 's weird that whenever I say that to Keith , he looks at me with the unmistakably quizzical air of the tall thin intellectual he is , his hair on the blond side of chestnut ( now heavily greying ) ; his fair skin with his rosy cheeks reminding one of Victorian youths with perfect complexions ( or so the novels of Wilkie Collins and the paintings of the Pre-Raphaelites would have us believe ) ; his eyebrows bushy and deliberately unkempt ; his classic tweed suit of the old school , worn with a shamefully Byronic air somewhere between hippy and academic ; his accent public school , as befits his education , although he also speaks a passable Spanish , so we can keep switching languages whenever linguistic difficulties develop .
4 He looks at me through the mirror and nods slightly , which I take to mean he 'd like my help .
5 This is another of Nic Picot 's tricks which he tried on me in the pub outside the Magic Circle .
6 Then he muttered to me from the corner of his mouth .
7 The next morning he came with me to the station , and as we waited for the train , we watched the crowds .
8 Why does he refuse to meet any groups other than farmers , as he confirmed to me in the House on 17 February ?
9 He grinned at me in the gloom , and introduced himself as if I might recognize the name .
10 ‘ Are you married ? ’ he said at once , head turned toward the din from his workmen as he stepped past me over the rubble and put a key into the lock of the , I should have thought , not yet apt to be plundered building .
11 I want him sent home and put to bed feeling good so that when he gets to me in the mornings , he 's feeling good ’ .
12 He called on me at the apartment a few hours before I left for the airport .
13 He called to me from the place .
14 He knew of me at the time I was working with Betsy Cook , who used to work with Marc , and so that helped .
15 As he dismounted he looked at me over the saddle and there Was that tell-nothing expression , looking at me no different than the Way he had looked at Lamarr Dean the moment before he broke a Whisky glass against his mouth .
16 I said that to him and he looked at me over the top of his glasses like that , cos he , in his office , he sits here , the door 's there , he sits here and I , I , everybody else has had the door open , I went in and shut the door and I stood behind him , I did n't stand in front of him , stood behind him so , keep
17 He looked at me across the room .
18 He looked at me for the first time when I said this .
19 He nodded and he looked at me for the first time .
20 He looked from me to the suitcase and back again in amazement .
21 He said to me on the phone he did n't know a great deal cos he was just getting it all together .
22 he said to me on the train to Richmond
23 Form 1A were assigned to Mr R. J. ‘ Bunny ’ Warren for Mathematics and I still have the reports he wrote about me at the time .
24 On 10 October , having arranged a meeting , he wrote to me about the earlier essay for which he had already arranged generous advanced payment :
25 He sat beside me on the wheelbarrow , smoking a cigarette and reading .
26 He sat with me on the grass verge and with unsteady hands rolled a cigarette .
27 ‘ Only stakin' 'is claim , ’ Granpa used to tell the customers as he pointed at me in the wooden box .
28 ‘ He followed me home , and he pushed past me into the house .
29 It will make a lovely picture he yells at me above the crashing noise .
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