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

No	Sentence
1	Of course I am not advocating a return to the kind of education that so wounded me as a child .
2	and only stuck me on the payroll
3	But then he suddenly dumped me for no apparent reason and left me broken-hearted .
4	Start with the beginning of this decade if you like , when the one and only Muhammad Ali personally escorted me round every nook and cranny of his Deer Lake log-cabin home .
5	Start with the beginning of this decade if you like , when the one and only Muhammad Ali personally escorted me round every nook and cranny of his Deer Lake log-cabin home .
6	He stayed indoors the whole winter , so Cathy only had me as a companion on her walks .
7	‘ The sessions not only pointed me in the right direction for obtaining information , they taught me a lot about the sort of questions I should be asking . ’
8	They eagerly embraced me into a family rich with eccentric aunts , brainy brothers , cranky grannies and caustic uncles , and the day they began referring to me as ‘ our Lynne ’ was the happiest day of my life .
9	But it just got me into a lot of fights , that 's all .
10	It just caught me by the scruff of the neck and practically hammered my guts out .
11	It was the violent jolting of our wheels on the sleepers that finally woke me to the realisation that Ward had switched from the road to the railway line itself and was bumping his way along the track towards the gaping mouth of a tunnel .
12	Sitting in Casey 's office with a group of people sometime in the autumn of 1985 , John McMahon , his deputy , suddenly said : ‘ You wo n't believe what Bud McFarlane just told me at the White House . ’
13	Being forcibly confined with other blind girls in a school which thought it was a public school soon turned me into a staunchly outspoken socialist .
14	I did n't think they were gon na fucking hit me for a fiver as well .
15	An experience at Scout camp one summer , finally alerted me to the dangers that could befall a young lad if he was n't too careful .
16	You 're a nice young gentleman and you 've always been civil to me , not treated me like a dog .
17	I had a marvellous ride all the way round and he just took me into the lead .
18	Just dragged me into the building , threw me down on the floor , made a lot of noise and left . ’
19	He had , in fact , just left me on a bench in a nearby park where we had spent some time together before he decided to go for a stroll .
20	It just struck me as a thought , that 's all . ’
21	It took a while before they finally trusted me with a little cooking .
22	And my people , the men and maidservants who came running , he confined as you see , each in a glass bottle , and finally closed me into the glass coffin in which you found me .
23	Kenneth More told me of the unfortunate happenings on the set of The Mercenaries which he made in 1966 in Jamaica with Hollywood star ( though Australian born ) Rod Taylor and American football star Jim Brown .
24	A friend once told me of a Northen Ireland tour back in the 1970s , by a group of bogus Wombles .
25	A friend once told me about a Xingu ‘ Indian ’ he met in Brazil who went to Sao Paulo , a gigantic city , for the first time .
26	All I can say is that this excursion into public affairs further encouraged me in a project I had already formed : namely to write a book on political theory , to be entitled Liberal and Servile Society .
27	This is not what I want to hear from the man who once shook me to the core with a string of incendiary albums .
28	In fact , we did go down there for a week to explore the possibilities , and I admitted that it was n't what it was and that the rosy glow that still suffused me at the very name was probably nostalgia for my touring days , when it was the most prestigious of all the dates .
29	They deliberately sent me on a wild goose chase .
30	One year , I was so proud of Dad , who always took me to the Fair on the Tuesday evening , because he won a coconut which I carried home feeling most superior .