Example sentences of "she [vb past] me [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had supposed that Aunt Louise would be in bed , but she met me at the door ; opened it , in fact , and held it ready for me to come in , because there was something she was bursting to tell me : ‘ I 'm not staying in this cold place a day longer . ’ |
| 2 | She led me into the kind of large room that Americans call studios . |
| 3 | She led me through the throng . |
| 4 | She menaced me with the extinguisher 's nozzle and , because I knew Ellen did not make idle threats , and because I knew she despised all displays of macho violence , I obediently stepped backwards and watched as she transferred the extinguisher 's aim to Sweetman . |
| 5 | only your mother was n't sure she asked me on the phone |
| 6 | I payed with my Vista card and although she was a hockey player , when she invited me to the opera I igried to go . |
| 7 | She grasped me by the hand . |
| 8 | She drew me into the kitchen and stretched out her arms , leaning backward a bit , and said , ‘ How I love people who say ‘ Yes ’ to life . ’ |
| 9 | Now when I spoke to Mrs on the telephone last night she told me about the work you 've been doing on and I have looked at it and I 'm going to go over it again with you this afternoon because she thought it was very very good work . |
| 10 | It was then that she told me about the hysterectomy . ’ |
| 11 | No , she to she told me on the phone . |
| 12 | Well if she gets here at quarter past seven and three hours is quarter past ten , and she 's supposed to be at the Penny Farthing at nine o'clock , so you know , I , I do n't feel as though we are you know getting erm our money 's worth from her at the moment , erm also erm she told me in the beginning that this was only go on was going on for about six weeks , well it has now been going on for over eight weeks and she now says that erm she does n't know how longer it 's going on for and I think she is just erm stalling us . |
| 13 | I was painting the back of the house one Saturday , when she shook me off the ladder , I got a compound fracture on me left leg . |
| 14 | Actually , she telephoned me at the Lab just before two . |
| 15 | She thanked me for the information — and then she left . ’ |
| 16 | She kissed me on the arse a couple of times , kissed me on the navel a couple of times . |
| 17 | Good night ; ’ She kissed me on the cheek , and followed the three out to the street . |
| 18 | She kissed me on the nose , but then , as though rejecting her idea of adopting a good man , stood up briskly . |
| 19 | She touched me on the arm . |
| 20 | But I did get another tingle of excitement when I swam a shade too near a jagged reef , and she grabbed me by the shoulder to pull me away . |
| 21 | ‘ I was walking down Piccadilly in 1973 with the woman who was later to become my wife when she grabbed me by the arm and steered me into St James 's church to see the carvings ’ . |
| 22 | She hit me over the head |
| 23 | Obeying some primitive burrowing instinct , she pulled me into the loo and locked the door behind us . |
| 24 | She said nothing to me and after rehearsals I was still standing there ; I 'd done nothing all morning , and she called me into the office . |
| 25 | She was very calm when she rang me from the hospital asking for her mourning clothes . |
| 26 | Kathy Rooney had to leave me one night when we were dining at the Kensington Hilton , so she took me to the porter to arrange for him to take me upstairs to my room when I was ready . |
| 27 | Then she took me to the centre by saying that she had asked my husband and had given permission . |
| 28 | In the morning she took me to the station , with my luggage including the cot , put me on the train , and said ‘ Goodbye . ’ |
| 29 | She ran out and tried to send me away but I pretended Sabine was expecting me , so she took me to the studio . |
| 30 | She took me into the first-floor front room , where my father had already been laid out in his coffin . |