Example sentences of "had [verb] [prep] me [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I strongly felt that Resenence had come to me in the dream and yet , when I awoke , when the morning came , I told myself I had created it myself . |
| 2 | I had an Abaya ( the long black gown ) which I had carried with me on the plane and a scarf to cover my hair , so I was able to enter the Ministry of Health without shocking the men too much . |
| 3 | No , we had no accidents , the only one I had was er when I 'd been right to the top , with the other crane an and it was a long shop , and everyone had done with me during the morning , so I hoisted the crane up , pulled it in towards me and set myself going down the shop , put it in full speed . |
| 4 | Dr Geoffrey Pasvol of the John Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford said : ‘ There was so much there [ in Allison 's paper ] that Ian had said to me in the summer . ’ |
| 5 | Once again I had the feeling that what my father had said to me in the garden could all be some horrible trick . |
| 6 | Offering the blond English boy — the one I was throwing water at now — half my lunch , and sitting there full of gratitude because he smiled , because he liked the taste of the piece of chicken dipped in cumin and saffron and he had smiled at me for the first time . |
| 7 | Erm erm I , I think that you know I , that had occurred to me in the past |
| 8 | He no longer maintained the stance he had advanced to me on the telephone . |
| 9 | There , next to Miss Temple , stood the same black column which had frowned on me in the breakfast-room at Gateshead . |
| 10 | The last words he had spoken to me on the subject of kitchen units had been really quite abusive . |
| 11 | The conversation was wide-ranging , but gradually I told her the full story of what had happened to me over the previous year or so . |
| 12 | At the time of writing I was too taken up with the present to make any but the vaguest connection with what had happened to me in the past . |
| 13 | I had to accept what had happened to me in the past before I could even begin to accept the changes in my life . |
| 14 | He had happened upon me at the crucial moment : I had little idea of who I was or what I was entitled to from life , let alone what it behoved me to contribute . |
| 15 | Having talked to the person making the eighteenth birthday cake about our individual requirements , we chose some suitable flowers to fit a small silver vase that was placed on top of the cake , and once the guests had gone I hurried them into the presses I had taken with me to the party . |
| 16 | Harold Wilson had complained to me about the continuing hostility of the press towards him and wanted to know how to put it right . |
| 17 | He was honest enough to admit that he had to rely on me for the practical side of the business , and gave me a good rise in pay . |