Example sentences of "[adv] [det] [noun sg] [vb past] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | People and animals portray in this , in the Tahiti painting , never seemed to be in a hurry , erm , even when always relaxed even when working and I wondered how much of this was cultural and erm , how much was due to the large amounts of erm drugs consumed in most paintings at this , this period but that I suppose I 'll , I 'll never know for sure about , erm with this painting I found in the background , er there 's a figure , that 's looking in on the situation and I , I for myself think 's its probably Gaugin , as he portrays himself as Christ , which I think he did quite a lot to me in , in , in a few of his paintings and so this painting gave me tremendous sense of being looked in on and this figure in the background , was the person that was doing the looking in . |
| 2 | Anyway that thought decided me to make for the bedroom but I was late starting and had only just reached the top of the stairs when he was half-way up with the big brown teapot held in his pelting position . |
| 3 | Two months later this tram-driver stopped me : ‘ I want to see you for a minute . |
| 4 | Perhaps it was n't that loneliness chose me , but that I chose it , proudly wrapping myself in it , like a cloak against the pollution of the world . |
| 5 | Then another man picked me up , swung me in front of him and we rode off . |
| 6 | For years I tried to paint around grasses and tried masking fluid ; however neither approach gave me a satisfactory result . |
| 7 | To explain why that aspect interested me particularly I have to tell you about the Butcher . |
| 8 | ( Yet some instinct told me that I must be careful to give her no cause for having a grievance . |