Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] me [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I loved it when a whole pile of notes met me in the morning and I did not surface till lunchtime . |
| 2 | ‘ I have discovered that the black people I have been working with in the inner cities proposed me for the award . |
| 3 | In my teens , similar doubts lured me into the darker recesses of the family 's medical encyclopedia , there to discover I was Britain 's first recorded case of Futtock 's Syndrome . |
| 4 | I had each Wednesday afternoon off from Russell 's and he enroled me , secretly , into his school for lessons with his normal classes , He and his wife held a weekly open house and these cramming sessions prepared me for the coming Halton entrance examination . |
| 5 | In any event , a few particularly strident voices denounced me over the agreement . |
| 6 | Neither of them felt up to leading and their enquiring eyes forced me into the lead . |
| 7 | I endeavoured to paint a picture of this scene , but again and again legions of midges drove me from the spot : I got a phial of essence supposed to keep them away , but alas ! in vain . |
| 8 | My senses took me through the bars that confined me . |
| 9 | My parents accused me of the murder of my brother . |
| 10 | I was very glad that my acquaintances escorted me to the Metro , with instructions to change at Dentfert-Rochereau for the Cité Universitaire , where I had managed to book a room in the Pavillon Franco-Britannique . |
| 11 | I felt strange , almost disembodied , but my feet carried me to the green door and I pushed it open . |
| 12 | The dogs followed me along the back passage . |
| 13 | After that dogs bit me on the feet . |
| 14 | That the two dogs saw me through the window , and jumped clean through the glass . |
| 15 | One of the officers showed me into the aeroplane and himself sat down in the pilot 's seat . |
| 16 | Two dates faced me in the late summer , early autumn of that year . |
| 17 | I ca n't sleep at night for that baby crying , I ca n't breathe in the daytime for that stench of tallow coming out of their back door — and one of his customers brushed me into the dusty street the other day … |
| 18 | This was the first time I 'd been into a prison and a number of things struck me during the day . |
| 19 | But passengers pursued me along the road , gathering up my garments and vowing aloud never to succumb to the pleas of their offspring for riding lessons . |
| 20 | Ellen had gone to her one-room apartment in town while Thessy was reading his Bible in the main-cabin , so I heated myself some baked beans in Wavebreaker 's microwave , spread them on buttered toast , soaked them in brown sauce , then ate a morose supper on deck until the bugs drove me to the screened sanctuary of the staterooms below . |
| 21 | When I had the baby , Stephen , the screws left me in the outside hospital but they took my clothes . |
| 22 | The second day continued where the first day left off : four catches by Hick to equal the record for a Test against Pakistan originally set by the little-remembered spinner Jim McConnon of Glamorgan in 1954 , and then my researches led me to the remarkable fact that John Birch , who played for Notts from 1973 to 1988 , was known as ‘ Bonk ’ . |
| 23 | Some 36 years later I was invited to become Patron of Vliegclub Grimbergen , which honour I took very seriously and when my Belgian friends told me of the threatened closure of this , one of the busiest of Belgium 's general aviation airfields , I could see no obvious reason for closure , other than what only seemed to me to be political bias . |
| 24 | ‘ Oh , for so many reasons — because friends supported me in the faith that we would end up together . |
| 25 | However — although these contortions saved me from the worse excesses of daily racism , my face kept giving me away . |
| 26 | ‘ On a personal note , in 1991 when the Board nominated me and the shareholders elected me to the chairmanship , I indicated that I would serve in this capacity for two years and oversee the rationalisation and turnaround of the Waterford and Wedgwood businesses . |
| 27 | So I kept my mouth shut even as her hands lathered me in the colour of dirt . |
| 28 | This magic creature enthralled me and I cajoled until kind hands lifted me into the saddle . |
| 29 | Even so , the cherry berets threw me to the ground , kicking me in the ribs as they frisked me for weapons . |
| 30 | One of the escorts slapped me across the mouth . |