Example sentences of "[vb past] me in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He asked me in German what I had come for but I said ; untruthfully , ‘ Nicht verstehen . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ He asked me in front of a niece and her husband . |
| 3 | ‘ Do Black Magic people in England attack you ? ’ a Roscommon chip shop boy asked me in awe . |
| 4 | Cos whoever it was they got me in trouble . |
| 5 | He hugged me in consent . |
| 6 | I seem to know that name " " You recommended me in Mespot for a pilot 's course " I enlightened him . |
| 7 | I 'm told it 's nothing personal ( it 's never anything personal in racing — a fellow who had just put me through the wing at Naas visited me in hospital to tell me it was nothing personal ) , but the end result is the same . |
| 8 | What would I have done with a mother who smothered me in love ? ’ |
| 9 | he drew me in ink and he etched me on zinc |
| 10 | It was my practice to arrive a day or two before the opening of a National Course in order to prepare the setting for my part in it ; and Basil usually found me in occupation of his normal workroom , setting up displays . |
| 11 | The mention of Frankenstein stopped me in mid-thought . |
| 12 | She stopped me in town funny enough erm oh a good couple of weeks ago like , she says to me oh have you heard , cos I was saying about oh we 'd seen something in the shop , it was ever so nice , I said oh I 'm too fat for that she said ooh have you seen , she must be erm infat you know bloody infatuated with dieting |
| 13 | WILLIAMS , formally ] I am very glad to see you well and I am very glad of an opportunity to acknowledge your good intentions when you believed me in distress . |
| 14 | The President told me in person last night . |
| 15 | I look forward to the day when we do have a regional tier of government , and erm , a very prominent local politician , not of my party , told me in confidence , that he believes that erm , there will be a regional tier of government sooner or later , if only to react to the pressures from Europe . |
| 16 | This afternoon to the Commons and talked to Frank Barlow , the Secretary of the PLP , who told me in detail the arrangements that had been made in the event of Harold Wilson dying . |
| 17 | He showed that he understood Lisner 's thoughts and encouraged him in his dream ; Lisner wrote to me that ‘ John was excited about my plans … my enthusiasm stimulated him and his own infectious enthusiasm affected me in turn . ’ |
| 18 | The director of studies , an obnoxious little shit who knew exactly where we both stood , received me in audience after I had waited for three-quarters of an hour . |
| 19 | I closed my eyes , fighting against the cold waves of faintness ; they enclosed me in ice and receded , leaving me numb , facing the red horizon . |
| 20 | Caduta frequently addressed me in Italian too , which did n't make things any clearer . |
| 21 | I saw that I was going to have to find a job before I did something rash which landed me in prison . |
| 22 | Then another man picked me up , swung me in front of him and we rode off . |
| 23 | The question placed me in danger of a box over the ear from the broken-nosed physics master who , despite his pugnacious appearance , failed to keep order in any class . |
| 24 | It placed me in power eighteen months ago by the largest majority accorded to any party for many , many years . |
| 25 | I have never felt such rage for M — even that day when she was drunk and hit me in front of that hateful boy Peter Catesby . |
| 26 | Some of the crowd were pleased when they heard this , but most of them watched me in silence . |
| 27 | Harry Murrell rang me in reply to my letter of 21 July to Ken about Req No 239886 . |
| 28 | In a Welsh farm family the grandmother was bedridden , and child-care fell to the grandfather : ‘ cause he was in the house , he was the one that looked after me and kept me in order . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ And his old nurse and governess is his housekeeper , a kind dragon who kept me in order . |
| 30 | They kept me in hospital for a week , even though after the first day they were able to tell me that my violent indigestion following my curry debauch had not dislodged — or even seriously inconvenienced my small passenger . |