Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [vb past] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | But like Agnes 's , it was her eyes which fascinated me — large , dark , and almond-shaped . |
| 2 | Well now , at the end of that six months I 'd had varied success , sometimes I had poor periods when I was n't detecting much , then I would have a little break , do better , but at the end of the six months nobody told me whether I was stopping there , but twenty years later I did go back to uniform as an inspector . |
| 3 | For me , this system meant the weeding out of subjects which bored me , and the opportunity to concentrate and read around those which really interested me . |
| 4 | And he still can not resist , all these years later , a spiky dig — ‘ but most gratifying of all was that the journalists who condemned me were proved so utterly wrong ’ . |
| 5 | All the pictures he showed me looked the same messy blur but he insisted he could make out the individual features of each person . |
| 6 | Giant-fiend of a hundred hands , with a shower of arrowy death-pangs he transpierced me , and then he became a wolf , and lay a-gnawing at my bones ! |
| 7 | I only read a little in the books he gave me , picked up what I could . |
| 8 | So for the meanwhile I continued with my ritualised observances , obsessively counting the number of steps it took me to walk to any given location , carefully avoiding the cracks in the pavement for fear that the bears of the id might get me , and attending to my bodily functions with the pure metrical devotion of a sadhu . |
| 9 | What actually happened was my a friend of mine or really was a friend of mine for a short time , he he was in the company when I joined , and er after two months he told me he was leaving . |
| 10 | I think it 's important to understand that all my work is about demystification — both of the self and of the medical and family discourses which defined me for much of my life . |
| 11 | During my sheltered youth I had two fleeting experiences which gave me some indication that I was not alone . |
| 12 | I was impressed by a deluge of letters from the Masons which assured me that both men were entirely innocent of importing cannabis as the police alleged . |
| 13 | It was at this point I decided to modify the router fence with two aluminium blocks which allowed me to work off that face but beneath the area I wanted to machine away . |
| 14 | ‘ Those are some of the effects which prompted me to write . |
| 15 | It was this change of circumstances which led me in announcing the making of the emergency order to say that W. 's wishes were no longer of weight . |
| 16 | One of the circumstances which drove me to these experiments will be familiar to most home cooks . |
| 17 | I said ‘ What do you mean ? ’ in such shocked tones she believed me straight away . |
| 18 | ' 'Bout five hundred bucks — from working in the store and from the articles you helped me to place . ’ |
| 19 | in the endland It was too far to go every day , so I went for the week , came home to the flat at weekends , She had squash , groundnuts , rows of beans on nylon lines She had me for the weeding . |
| 20 | ‘ Those snaps you gave me — they were not much good , very difficult to work with . |
| 21 | You will recall , however , that before you vanished from our lives you entrusted me with the notes you had kept while working on the Big Glass and the Green Box , telling me I could do what I liked with them , and adding , in your usual sensitive way , that I could always use them to wipe my arse if the paper decided to sack me and I found myself really hard up . |
| 22 | The rounds you sent me are all standard N.A.T.O . |
| 23 | Even under Edward 's guidance it proved difficult to feel my way into the texts he gave me to read . |
| 24 | tablets you gave me |
| 25 | See these tablets you gave me ? |
| 26 | I 'm developing a suspicion that the heavies who raided me might have been their cronies . |
| 27 | Other times she made me promise to keep them for ever , to remember her by , and say a prayer She was a bit vague who it was I was to pray to . |
| 28 | It was the second time Vonetta and I had met ; both times she struck me as an extremely self-possessed young woman with a lot of presence . |
| 29 | The qualities I had cultivated to help me through , such as diligence , such as dignity , such as keeping my peace , had been , after all , weapons which isolated me and made me loathsome . |
| 30 | It was my grandparents who raised me , who gave me an education , who made it possible through their sacrifices to become what I am today . ’ |