Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [prep] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could only speculate whether the industrial activity required to produce the clock radio and the telephone they wanted to give me , and all the ongoing activity to service those industries and their customers , would not cause more pollution , lead to more acid rain , and so destroy more trees than the one they planned to plant for me . |
| 2 | Of course I got nowhere and she found out all she cared to know about me ( though not about my friends ) . |
| 3 | She was still looking admiringly around when , ‘ I 'm so happy that you agreed to dine with me this evening , ’ Lubor stated warmly . |
| 4 | During the last Energy Question Time , more than a fortnight ago , he promised to write to me but he has failed to do so . |
| 5 | She once reported to Robert Landgrebe , marketing manager , in a voice of genuine shock that she had just been on an aeroplane with three accountants ‘ and do you know , they tried to talk to me about design ’ . |
| 6 | He first tried to talk to me in an English pub . |
| 7 | She tried to talk to me a job , but we sort of joked away . |
| 8 | Miguel promised to look after me for a year while I got some business experience before going to university . ’ |
| 9 | He tried to walk past me down the stairs , but I stopped him . |
| 10 | I let myself in , and stopped to look around me in the small outer room . |
| 11 | ‘ What you did to that boat was only marginally less criminal than what you tried to do to me . |
| 12 | ‘ Speaking of manners , ’ Belinda herself put in suddenly , in a rather small but very firm voice , ‘ I think it would be polite if you both stopped speaking about me as if I was n't here ! ’ |
| 13 | They spoke good Spanish : if they promised to interpret for me , I said , I 'd rent a car and give them a ride . |
| 14 | All of them were English-born and helped to imbue in me a loyal appreciation of the Royal Family . |
| 15 | And when there were two men passing he let go of me and I ran . |
| 16 | He — I must cease to refer to him as an it-he let go of me , and I managed to remain standing in his dreadful presence . |
| 17 | She tried to score off me and offered to pay by credit card . ’ |
| 18 | Colleagues stopped talking to me , afraid no doubt that being on the wrong side of the new Director might prove contagious . |
| 19 | He stopped talking to me and changed deadlines so they became impossible to meet . |
| 20 | She went into the huffs and stopped talking to me . |
| 21 | Mind you it seemed that they had a test at school last week and he was n't terribly happy with it , he said he could n't understand it , he tried to explain to me what it was , but erm , it 's not , not easy , but Ga Gavin said erm , he said they 'd had a test and he said it took him time to get into it but once he got into it , you know , he did alright in it , I think he said how many he got , he did n't seem to do too badly , but he said Alex did n't really do anything and what he did do he thought was wrong so he did n't hand it in , he said and in actual fact what he had done was right , so I do n't know , I told , I told Alex to go and see , you know , and ask about it and sort of erm , apparently he did do that so at least he 'll know , but erm , it 's strange really because normally Alex |
| 22 | You do n't , that 's why I asked whether Richard could join your committee so that he could voice to you the things he tried to explain to me which I think are |
| 23 | ‘ I was so happy when he kinda stopped chewing on me for a second . ’ |
| 24 | After reading about this incident in my book the headteacher involved wrote to me saying he felt that teachers do perhaps shout too much but that the issue for him was that the student was a ‘ guest ’ in the school which in turn was a family . |
| 25 | I 'd met Masha 's husband earlier in the day , and he 'd improvised for me . |
| 26 | As I was recovering , Hannah , the housekeeper , came to sit with me , and told me all about the family . |
| 27 | She 'd explained to me the origin of the Paisley pattern ; I had the history of Notting Hill Gate , the use of a camera obscura by Vermeer , why Charles Lamb 's sister murdered their mother , and a history of Tamla Motown . |
| 28 | I could n't see her face very clearly now , but could sense how she 'd withdrawn from me . |
| 29 | He came shambling after me . |
| 30 | The lamp-smudges seemed to swim towards me , dipping and swaying off-centre as I approached them My legs were trembling and when I put my hand against my face it was burning , and yet clammy . |