Example sentences of "[vb past] me [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dank smell of the water was not unpleasant , and for years the scent of la Sologne that enveloped me that night would pierce my memory : a combination of stagnant water , slime , wild mushrooms , wispy dry grasses , sand and well-hung game . |
| 2 | I am so glad that the hon. Member for Derby , North asked me that question — |
| 3 | He 'd never asked me that before , but in fact my religion had been important to me all along ; he only asked me that day because I had my head covered . |
| 4 | I was a witness and so on you see and down below and the sergeant said to me , the sergeant came up and said to me , you 'll have to be careful because he said that boy , he was sitting there with his mother , poor woman , all in black and er the em the boy 's employer had got a solicitor on his behalf , you see , and I said well I can only speak through and say what happened , that 's all I can do and er , so of course when I went into the witness box this man came and er asked me all sorts of questions . |
| 5 | My old , dear and intimate friend Princess Marie Louise , who furnishing the Queen 's Dolls ' House , asked me some months ago to let twelve poems of mine be copied small to form one volume in the library ; and I selected the twelve shortest and simplest and least likely to fatigue the attention of dolls or the illustrious House of Hanover . ’ |
| 6 | He nearly got me this afternoon . |
| 7 | So Parsons got me this job and I used to sit up there and answer the phones . ’ |
| 8 | Yeah , he got me some springs |
| 9 | My American agent once got me some stuff placed in Reader 's Digest . ’ |
| 10 | There was a pile of really filthy-looking blankets on the bed , they got me some sheets and a towel , and I managed to get an extra pillow because of my asthma . |
| 11 | Mr Blackadder tolled me this buk is ful of jokes that are abowt as funny as getting your bottom caut in a bacon slicer . |
| 12 | After my first sight of him that sunny autumn morning in the gallery of the courtyard in the Palacio de Anaya , his face haunted me all day , and I dreamt of him during the night — a long , ecstatic dream of such acute sensual pleasure I woke up aching and exhausted by too much bliss . |
| 13 | No I could n't I mean , and these people are Jehovah Witnesses who sold me this house and my feelings about the commercial probity of Jehovah Witnesses are that they have n't any commercial probity . |
| 14 | ‘ You promised me some cigarettes , Mrs Dawson . ’ |
| 15 | He promised me this time he really would stop cranking . |
| 16 | ‘ My Lady , ’ I said , ‘ you promised me another purse ! ’ |
| 17 | He invited me several times to supper at his parents ' house . |
| 18 | ‘ She phoned me this morning . ’ |
| 19 | He phoned me this morning this morning and put and he 's alright . |
| 20 | Umm Jazz F M phoned me this morning . |
| 21 | I 'm awful , I mean , that 's why I got up , you know when you phoned me this morning , and said , I am sorry , have I got you out of bed , and I was like really grateful , because I ca n't stand sleeping in . |
| 22 | This time the hoof caught me half way up the shin bone , She had n't been able to get so much height into it but it was just as painful . |
| 23 | Oh , I can pay cash , changed me some dollars right in the airport … ’ |
| 24 | It cost me many night-hours the more because I was reading of one thing and thinking of another . ’ |
| 25 | I have read my Foucault , I am aware of the conceptual shortcomings of a timeless , essentialist homosexual identity , I might even want to take the step of putting quotations marks around the word ‘ gay ’ — but the man who queerbashed me some years ago did not put quotation marks around his fists . |
| 26 | ‘ Me dad told me that story abaht Bobby Peel as a lesson . |
| 27 | Yeah , you told me that story |
| 28 | I had invited any of the hospital staff who had cared to come , and my ‘ Dawes Road ’ friend Miss Dorrie Pierce told me that church folk had organized a little wedding tea , and my husband-to-be had ordered and paid for a wedding cake . |
| 29 | He three-putted the 14th , and then the television buggy came past on its way to the 15th , and the guys on board told me that Crenshaw — — who was nearest challenger then — had double-bogeyed 17 . |
| 30 | Nobody told me that bit . |