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Example sentences of "[vb past] me [adv] [art] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	He kicked it open and flung me down the three steps into the street .
2	He asked me where a ladder like that could be found , and I took him round to the one that hangs on the side of the potting shed .
3	Then someone asked me where the station was , and she was deaf , and I had to trumpet like an elephant for about ten minutes … .
4	‘ In one game in Barcelona , the players asked me why the crowd was whistling .
5	But if you asked me how a motor car worked you would think me somewhat pompous if I answered in terms of Newton 's laws and the laws of thermodynamics , and downright obscurantist if I answered in terms of fundamental particles .
6	He led me up the cobbled yard and opened the door of one of the houses .
7	Then , one afternoon , Didier led me down the rue de Fleuve to the cemetery .
8	He led me down the hallway and into the communal kitchen .
9	You made me completely a woman
10	This absence of news made me all the more careful , and an hour after leaving camp I arrived without mishap at an open glade near the top of the hill , within a hundred yards of the forest road .
11	Oh I was playing up and they chucked me out the class or something and I had to stay in at dinner time .
12	He lured me there a couple of years ago to talk to his sixth form group about the Irish problem .
13	But one incident that amused me was that I was booked for a coffee commercial and the producer phoned me up the night before the session to let me know the track we were doing , because he said he wanted to get it as close to the original as he possibly could .
14	Dad phoned me up the day before and , knowing I was about to go away on holiday , suggested we meet the next night , on the fourth of August .
15	Can I just say that er Ray phoned me up the other day and he said er , would you be prepared to take part in probationers ' , er regional probationary sort of training day er which is at coming up er in a few months time , to give erm presentation skills er I part of what we were doing , erm but just those O H Ps that we did on that part .
16	‘ But to my surprise , he phoned me back a few days later , and offered to help me .
17	Your voice pursued me down the marble stairway :
18	My mum helped me out a bit , but not everyone has parents who will help .
19	‘ He stopped me down the village . ’
20	On a lighter note a fellow worker approached me only a couple of months ago er , the new European directive almost ruined his holiday he then explained he booked up to take his family to EuroDisney .
21	of all , preserv 'd me still A Poet , made me seek
22	Then I said that most of the money would come to me after his death , anyway — I mean , that 's what he told me when the will was read — and it would be too late then .
23	I already had two vital tools of the caddie 's trade in my pocket : notes on the measurements and characteristics of each hole , which I had checked and rechecked on the practice days ; and a chart , issued ahead of each day 's play by the PGA which told me where the hole would be cut on each green .
24	‘ She told me much the same as Miss Rose .
25	He told me quite a lot about his experiences during our stay in hospital together .
26	It 's typical , they just accepted it all , so it did n't really achieve a great deal , but Mike told me quite a lot of things that I do n't really have any idea , or I did n't know about ,
27	I hardly would — you told me only a few minutes ago . ’
28	Another young man told me how a Lubavitch rabbi helped him when he got into trouble with the police .
29	Lady Eleanor took me into her confidence and told me how every day , late in the evening , she went down there to see if another letter had been left . ’
30	Anne and her husband Alan , who was wearing a costume made by her grandmother which had also been worn by her father , told me how the village was changing .