Example sentences of "[pron] and [vb past] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ My good fortune lay in working with great men who were patient with me and taught me good habits that were never to be forgotten .
2 This time they were sent to Alfred Bowles of Ipswich and bear the inscription " Alfred made me and hung us all " .
3 When my elder son was born and I was having difficulty in breast-feeding him , my mother sympathised with me and told me that , just after I was born , she had had an abscess on one of her breasts and found feeding me something of an ordeal .
4 The qualities I had cultivated to help me through , such as diligence , such as dignity , such as keeping my peace , had been , after all , weapons which isolated me and made me loathsome .
5 His long silence worried me and made me frightened .
6 I only once went into his garden , a beautifully kept one , even in war-time , when he kindly picked a bunch of tulips for me and showed me some new potatoes he was growing in pots in the greenhouse .
7 She smiled at me and gave me two small ones and I followed her to their house .
8 She turned to face me and gave me that vivid smile that transformed her already delightful face .
9 Although small , my enthusiasm for all Sports helped me and gave me some popularity at school .
10 When I was in police custody the doctor came in to see me and gave me some tablets and I 'm asking you for some now . ’
11 Altogether , the tour gave the Indians maximum exposure to me and gave me maximum exposure to the ELT situation in India .
12 She paced me and paced me wrong . ’
13 Here 's me thinking I woke me and dressed me this morning , and all the time I 'm still in bed and dreaming .
14 You have already judged me and found me guilty .
15 A motor horn sounded off behind me and scared me silly .
16 There were several questions I would have liked to have put to them , but had I done so I would have altered the environment for them and made them hyper-conscious of their limitations .
17 So the cat and the buzzard were added to their company , and the young lord looked after them all , fed them and kept them warm .
18 Now , a number of years later , I have seen some of God 's plans for them come about and realize how much he has cared for them and kept them safe .
19 The events of the year seemed to have washed over them and left them unaltered .
20 The term Earth Mysteries covers not just ancient sites but also the people who visited them and found them significant in their lives .
21 He took them off , breathed on them and polished them clean with his handkerchief , which was now very dirty .
22 Anyway this woman , the problematic one , stopped me in full view of everyone and handed me this folded piece of paper .
23 She got them out one of everything and showed them all the different fish .
24 Yeah like , you can say something and got it wrong again .
25 Hayling had seemed unusually pleased to see him and offered him some champagne .
26 Iorwerth reached out of the leaves for him and choked him mute , but the damage was done .
27 And then I took pity on him and lent him forty .
28 Villagers from the former location soon reached him and carried him shoulder-high in a triumphal procession .
29 His abilities impressed A. C. Headlam [ q.v. ] , principal of King 's College , London , who secured lectureships in ecclesiastical history ( 1905–11 ) and patristics ( 1911–18 ) for him and made him sub-editor ( 1903–18 ) and later joint editor ( 1921–7 ) of the Church Quarterly Review .
30 She kissed and blessed him and hugged him close , and it seemed to the uneasy watchers that she would after all change her mind .
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