Example sentences of "[pron] he [verb] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I He told me he was n't allowed to go nights . |
| 2 | The man 's so sure of himself he pressed me , would have me reason it out with the boy until I was satisfied . |
| 3 | To prove , yet again , that he was a good salesman as well as a good cook , Esmonde did me a special offer on a small bottle of rice wine which he persuaded me I just had to try . |
| 4 | I particularly enjoyed long evening discussions with Lance , whose meticulous methods and ambitions in broadcasting were explained in his book ‘ The Stuff of Radio ’ , which he sent me on his return to London , together with a copy of his novel , ‘ The Perfect Witch ’ . |
| 5 | The president of the Wolverhampton chamber of commerce delivered precisely the same speech as the one of which he sent me a copy beforehand and I have it here . |
| 6 | He sought my advice on one or two matters where complaints were made against him of alleged libels , which I had no real difficulty in seeing off and about which he wrote me appreciative letters . |
| 7 | Was it marijuana , which he told me he had smoked ? |
| 8 | I duly went along to see him and , in the first room in which he received me , I noticed one or two small Popovas up on the wall . |
| 9 | He went into the kitchen and returned with a plate of local delicacies which he offered me together with a little plate , a napkin and a finger-bowl . |
| 10 | After two hours of conversation , during which he questioned me closely concerning Ouspensky , he apologized that his wife ( he used a different word ) was not present . |
| 11 | Meanwhile , the Consul-General at Florence , Mr Wakefield-Harrey , whom I had first met in Tripoli , stayed with in Florence and met once more in Rome for the Chamberlain-Mussolini talks , had sent me a long Miltonic poem ( for these slightly underemployed officials in remote places often took to authorship as an alternative to the bottle ) about which he begged me to seek Eliot 's opinion . |
| 12 | At that point Kalchu stood up , rummaged round behind the rafters and , after a while , pulled out a dusty horn which he handed me . |
| 13 | The second er reason which he gave me , of course I should have thought for myself , he said , but the accountants more accurately represented the human form than did the rats , so that was a clear one to him , but it was the third one that really floored me , when he told me that their staff had been getting really attached to the rats . |
| 14 | In that log book , which he showed me later , was the name , port and country of origin , of every ship that had passed through during the last eight and a half years , together with her age and condition , her destination , and of course the name of the captain and details of the cargo . |
| 15 | I 'm subbing Neil but that 's out of money which he gives me and which really in theory ought to be for my own , own use you know for fun but I get housing benefit for him , from the council . |
| 16 | Of course , that 's who he reminds me of , dear Uncle Dimitri . |
| 17 | I think it was because of you he took me on . ’ |
| 18 | Everything he tells me of former times is suffused with loss . |
| 19 | everything he asked me to . |
| 20 | It 's like that wire-mesh barrier thing — the one he told me about — the one that stops boats at the last moment from going over the weir . |
| 21 | ‘ If it was me , ’ she said , ‘ I 'd meet whoever he asked me to . |
| 22 | Every time I visited him he made me polish the dust off the bottle , so it came as a huge relief when we were finally able to open it . |
| 23 | Dr McNab , too , had been angry : " Every time I revive him he abuses me ! |
| 24 | I know I never met Bill , but from all you said of him he reminded me much too much of a man I once knew and loved . |
| 25 | Well he , he left he was with Karen he came to me he left me and went down to Gloucester he dithered about running up and down the road between Gloucester and here er Stowmarket . |
| 26 | When he saw me he asked me who I was , then demanded to know where my father was . |
| 27 | Yeah but he told me he told me he told |
| 28 | Once he told me he likes me cos I do n't ask questions . |
| 29 | ‘ But if he 's flown halfway round the world to tell me he loves me , then why did n't he tell me he loves me ? ’ |
| 30 | ‘ But if he 's flown halfway round the world to tell me he loves me , then why did n't he tell me he loves me ? ’ |