Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] me [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm , if erm , if one of them contradicted me in the class , I burst into tears , I think you 'd think something was seriously wrong with me , would n't you ? |
| 2 | ‘ That girl of yours asked me for a statement and I gave her one-more than she bargained for , and I made her take it all down . ’ |
| 3 | I figured me for a piece of the five G's . ’ |
| 4 | Michelle , who was taking the drug Epilim , said at her home in Whyteleaf , Surrey : ‘ None of them told me about the risk of having a handicapped baby . |
| 5 | She met me with a friendly smile , shook my hand and introduced me to the class : ‘ This is Wanda , our new pupil who has come to live in our village . |
| 6 | I had supposed that Aunt Louise would be in bed , but she met me at the door ; opened it , in fact , and held it ready for me to come in , because there was something she was bursting to tell me : ‘ I 'm not staying in this cold place a day longer . ’ |
| 7 | you met me with an exalted smile |
| 8 | You would n't recognise me if you met me in the bath . ’ |
| 9 | Well you got me for the day today , cos I ca n't go now until I fetch the car . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'll call back at noon , ’ he said to the buttons on her breast pockets , and she led me to a changing room full of paper nighties before turning to greet the next chicken on the conveyor belt and rewinding the tape to : ‘ Hi there , welcome to Surgicentre . |
| 11 | The house we sat in was still in chaos , so she led me to the sunny kitchen , where we talked and drank coffee , surrounded by boxes and plants and the smell of paint . |
| 12 | I waited in the office for an hour before she led me into a darkened side ward . |
| 13 | She led me into a bed-sitting-room . |
| 14 | She led me into a parlour . |
| 15 | She led me into the pink-and-green chintzy sitting-room where Harry , pale with blue shadows below the eyes , sat in an armchair with his bandaged leg elevated on a large upholstered footstool . |
| 16 | She led me into the kind of large room that Americans call studios . |
| 17 | She led me into the front room where , defensively , she picked up the baby . |
| 18 | She led me through the throng . |
| 19 | Clad in a sparkly jacket and a long black skirt , wreathed in silly string and clumps and strands of paper streamers from party poppers , her long hair bunned , she enveloped me in a very friendly kiss , breathing whisky and wine fumes . |
| 20 | She menaced me with the extinguisher 's nozzle and , because I knew Ellen did not make idle threats , and because I knew she despised all displays of macho violence , I obediently stepped backwards and watched as she transferred the extinguisher 's aim to Sweetman . |
| 21 | ‘ Oh , come on , that 's why you asked me for a drink . |
| 22 | You asked me about the stance we were to adopt . |
| 23 | ‘ I came because I liked what I saw when you passed me in the corridor back in Helsinki . |
| 24 | only your mother was n't sure she asked me on the phone |
| 25 | She asked me to a cocktail-party to which I did n't want to go , so I said I had a cold which was n't true at the time but knowing my chest I guessed that I should have a bronchial cough at any moment and so I did . |
| 26 | She came over to me one night and she asked me for a lift . |
| 27 | And she asked me for the fifty P . |
| 28 | I had no money , and she helped me over the worst times . |
| 29 | So I told them what I would do , but once again I 've never been in the situation but this is what I 'll do , said as if they were me own parents make them as comfortable as I could while I 'll cleaned up and give them a bed bath or if they could shower , shower them and erm and get everything back to normal as quick as possible , fine , that were all fine she , and then as , as I got up from it they all said thanks a lot Joy it has been great you really have been great you 've made it easy , we 've got an easy day in front thanks to you , you know you 're bubbly and all this and then when she phoned me on the Sunday she said hello Joy it 's Sue here and I , I said will you let me know one way or the another cos I said I hate being left up in the air |
| 30 | I believed her on both counts , especially when she visited me for a weekend and gave me a bottle of ‘ Denim ’ aftershave which she had shoplifted from a Chemist in mid Wales . |