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

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1 As it was , however , no suitable opportunity arose for me to gain such information .
2 King agreed with me as to Mr Gould being an entirely uneducated man — he sd when he came here [ to Sydney ] he brought verbal introductions from Sir J. to difft. individuals & went up to them & sd .
3 William clung to me , laughing .
4 As I have read his writings , often in photocopies lent to me by friends , or in the book on his work published in 1982 , in India , I have not only come to appreciate his films in a more informed way , but I have also realized that his outlook on film-making is one which has begun to affect my own thinking .
5 Mr Hobbs gazed at me as if fascinated .
6 Fiona 's face seemed very real as I closed my eyes and scenes of the Highlands passed before me .
7 ‘ He is in the presence of his God , ’ Ward whispered to me .
8 And I certainly appreciated the faceful that Caduta laid on me .
9 Adenauer agreed with me that there could be no question of submerging the identity of our two nations in a stateless institution . ’
10 ‘ I told them , ’ Bernard whispered to me , ‘ tie your bags up on the rack but they would n't listen . ’
11 Then Holmes checked with me that I had my gun , an army revolver .
12 King demonstrated for me how easy it was to knock up a backing track in his home studio and then erase it again at the touch of a button .
13 Half an hour later the charming hypothesis occurred to me that Conchis was a transvestite .
14 I stumbled across the threshold but before I could say anything Mum shouted at me , ‘ Where 'ave yow bin all this time ?
15 The coy attitude with which the Press still view this and other sexual matters is illustrated by the experience recounted to me by a well-known columnist .
16 ‘ Why ’ , Greenslade whispered to me , ‘ is n't semen an element ? ’
17 I think , and David agreed with me , that he should stand back from this initially .
18 As he admitted , ‘ The tension got to me . ’
19 Then suddenly the words wove within me , transporting me through another 's imagination .
20 Spaniels frisked around me , and an aristocratic white-haired lady called her daughter Mary to guide me .
21 His dark eyes flickered at me like a long sooty flame , then he looked down again .
22 Visions of an endless life of eating chocolate and reading Hardy rose before me .
23 As I was leaving the house Pat shouted after me , ‘ Piper , your friend Taff who shares the trench with you in the orchard has been transferred to one of the Commando units around the village .
24 Before long , Knocknarea towered over me in escarpments of sheer rock , with grassland visible high in the sky .
25 Ivan toppled towards me , creaking like a rusty hinge .
26 My good friend Friday came with me , of course , but we left the mutineers on the island .
27 Friday came with me .
28 Lineker 's agent came to me and told me that Lineker wanted to go to play in Japan .
29 GENEVIEVE CAUDEN : The professor came to me and said it was alright because the guy had shot himself , but I could n't move .
30 But the yard one of the yard inspectors came to me and said , I wonder if you would make up a roster for the supervisors .
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