Example sentences of "[vb past] me [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jack and two others who had witnessed the performance , found me and piloted me back to the warmth and safety of the ski-cabin . |
| 2 | The crane then lowered me down towards the two men underneath me who shouted for me to put my arms out so that they could grab me . |
| 3 | Saturday , 13th : Arrived at Delhi airport over two hours late , at 06.30. met me personally at the barrier and eased me through the arrival formalities . |
| 4 | ‘ Now , ’ he whispered confidentially , ‘ the thing to remember is that the Greek Orthodox priest is the one on the left with the beard , ’ and with that flung me determinedly into my seat . |
| 5 | At a conference at Oxford in December 1989 , Professor Randolph Quirk , the famous linguist , attacked me fiercely for including material like this , which could be easily misrepresented by the press . |
| 6 | Then he said to Rain : ‘ He attacked me only with words . ’ |
| 7 | Then laid me gently in bed . |
| 8 | ‘ When I was at drama school , they paired me off with a lovely actor who was only five foot eight and we had to play husband and wife ! |
| 9 | If he rode me over to Romorantin to catch the early train to Paris , would I mind going out to Reine for him ? |
| 10 | In the evening when the booking and despatch department would start packing up to go , so would I and no one asked me not to . |
| 11 | And she was all right because when I got back here , she drove up and asked me over for coffee . |
| 12 | They give you something for that cos I m the B B C asked me once to , they knocked the door and said would I make a note of all the programmes for one week and just put my opinion , it was just four different , you know , |
| 13 | When I was making runs at Leeds Graham Gooch came up and asked me how on earth I was batting so well on that pitch . |
| 14 | Why you ever asked me down in the first place is still a mystery to me . |
| 15 | He asked me back for lunch after the Eucharist . |
| 16 | They asked me in for tea , and we all listened to the morning news on Radio Tonga , crackling over the miles from the aerials down in Tongatapu . |
| 17 | ‘ It is true , ’ Dubois continued ‘ He asked me in as an advisor , and I realized at once that they were not the work of the Bizango . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Within four minutes he asked me out to dinner . |
| 19 | We chatted so much on that first date , and then Denise asked me out to dinner the next night . |
| 20 | ‘ He rang me up that same evening and asked me out for a drink . ’ |
| 21 | And then he asked me out in the end . |
| 22 | " My mother is threatening to dismiss all the staff unless I tell her which one of them admitted me back into the house last night . |
| 23 | " The snares of death compassed me round about , and the pains of hell gat hold upon me . " |
| 24 | He led me through to the next room , and up against the wall there lay a stack of some ten to fifteen canvases . |
| 25 | But her eyes were fail of pain as she led me through to the lounge . |
| 26 | Now , " he said , placing a creaky arm across my shoulders as he led me through to the parlour , " I want you to meet Vron . " |
| 27 | The old bat led me astray in more ways than one . |
| 28 | I arrived early and he led me upstairs to a comfortable polish-scented lounge and made coffee , before returning to the bar to finish off . |
| 29 | I wished everyone goodnight and he led me upstairs into a small dormitory room . |
| 30 | My mother 's stories also led me away from home . |