Example sentences of "[noun sg] who [verb] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You engaged ? ’ said an American soldier who asked me to dance . |
| 2 | Whither now , at sixty-five , with an agent who sends me postcards from abroad as conscience sops , but never telephones because what work is there for such a one as I ( or is it me ) ? |
| 3 | I met a brother-in-law who told me to leave but I stayed another night in our new house just outside the village . |
| 4 | What happened was I happened to be in the corridors there and the gentleman came in , that 's on the Friday afternoon , gentleman came in and asked to see the Headmaster , so I took him along to see who was the Headmaster then , and erm shortly after that I was called up to see and erm asked me if I 'd like to apply for this job because had seen me erm bringing me up to , bringing him up to see and he said erm , well what about that young fella who brought me up there and would he like to apply . |
| 5 | ( 148 ) If it were not for an old professor who made me read the classics I would have been stymied . |
| 6 | If I had to name the twentieth-century figure who reminds me most of corduroys , it would have to be Albert Einstein . |
| 7 | No , no , no , well , that that 's within my purview , and the purview of the committee who elected me . |
| 8 | In the end , to put them off , I told them I was quite clear about the type who attracted me and that there was no point in introducing me to anyone who did n't match up . |
| 9 | The following two snippets I shall pass on , with the caution that the bloke who told me is a Man U supporter . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've never laid eyes on 'em before , ’ he replied , ‘ but I 'll never ferget the bloke who laid me out . |
| 11 | ‘ Well , there was that boy who saw me legs when I fell over one day , ’ said Dolly . |
| 12 | And I was not averse to fighting with any boy who challenged me for one reason or another . |
| 13 | I was n't in my final year but the boy who took me was . |
| 14 | Coober Pedy ( form the aboriginal kupa piti meaning " white man 's burrow " ) has a large migrant population but it was an Australian who dug me out when I became bogged down in the dull-dust , and an old swagman on the road who warned me to keep an eye on the weather . |
| 15 | I called the local council who told me the wasps were best left until the end of the season when they would follow their queen and find somewhere else to live . |
| 16 | Uncle sent me to St Bartholomew 's and Agrippa brought an old lady who fed me on a concoction of crushed moss mixed with the leavings of sour milk . |
| 17 | I still have n't heard back from the young lady who sent me the Valentine card ; did you really mean it ? |
| 18 | The lady who took me in was a widow with a son of about my age who hardly ever spoke . |
| 19 | The head of the family when I first remember them was William Henry Bayles who was Grandmother 's cousin and the father of a lady who taught me a little bit of music . |
| 20 | ( I must tell here the story of a charming American lady who approached me when I had just given a talk on regression therapy . |
| 21 | The judge who gave me bail had said that if I got into trouble that was it , I would n't get bail again , so obviously I thought , ‘ If I 'm going to go back , I 'll go for something worth going for . ’ |
| 22 | The girl who woke me also made my drink . |
| 23 | She 's the girl who let me into the house last might … |
| 24 | ‘ I remember a pretty girl on a bicycle , a silver bird with sad eyes , a young girl who entranced me . |
| 25 | ‘ And his old nurse and governess is his housekeeper , a kind dragon who kept me in order . |
| 26 | I visited a one-man research station of the Cyprus Department of Agriculture who invited me to taste the products of many combinations of variety and soil . |
| 27 | Arkan showed his less affable side when he tackled the photographer who accompanied me around the throat , throwing him out of his office and smashing his video camera underfoot . |
| 28 | At the first hotel I worked in , I had shared an ‘ office , with one other cleaner — a taciturn alcoholic who taught me how to keep my head down — but in my new job , there were five of us who shared the same poky little room . |
| 29 | Apricot was my mother 's fantasy and my mother was an alcoholic who deserted me . |
| 30 | It passed ‘ into great peace with the help of Father Horner an old and saintly monk who gave me absolution and good counsel ’ . |