Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [vb past] me [adj] " in BNC.

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1 That 's John , me boy , he 's a docker down the erm down the dock he got a weeks holiday this week , so I took me other boy and me daughter out last week and erm we 'd left her with dogs so I said we 'd take them out one day perhaps when he get his holiday .
2 And it was n't a shock when I got my first hit record because I was trying for that all our lives and so she backed me all the way .
3 and we will give you a er , two addresses , and so they gave me two addresses and and to reach people at I 've done the job quite well .
4 So they gave me minute instructions ( enclosed , along with the much-travelled draft , in the foreign-desk-clerk 's handwriting ) about what you should say to them if you can be persuaded to try them again .
5 Suddenly he cut me short and took me round the room and made me look at things .
6 So he got me last nights , we 're gon na have to go tomorrow so we 'll have to go tonight now , got ta tell !
7 And he listened , he would n't really say what he had been doing , but later he showed me some of the things he 'd done in the Hebrides .
8 So I told him all I found out like , when he came down a few days later he gave me two fifty , er two pound ten as it was then you know I was amazed at
9 The idea is that you 're aware of people around you , but I was particularly sensitive to the vibrations and eventually they drove me mad . ’
10 Well she bought me one last year
11 Well he told me last year he 'd applied .
12 She has been a couple of times but er when we were bringing up the family course she could n't reasonably go with me every week and er , but she had used to be er a good supporter when she was a girl , she used to go with her father in those days my son 's been with me , cos I took him las well he took me last night with his wife I went in their car .
13 Well he brought me some without that on it
14 Well he phoned me last night and he 's going to phone me again on Sunday afternoon , we get on so well , Brenda I can just the imagine the pair of us tucked up into a four foot bed !
15 Then she told me all her hopes and fears and about her First Experience — I 'll say no more than that — but she remembered it vividly .
16 Then it took me four or five days to be able to walk with a stick .
17 Then he gave me half a crown .
18 ‘ But then he gave me half an ounce on credit .
19 Yeah I know but he did say that even though agents I 'm not giving you this and then he showed me all the things you know to sort of prove that he was doing it .
20 He was in a fix — he had bought two papers and merged them together , and I was n't around , I was in New York , and I did the logo for him in a hurry , but I did n't have time to design a newspaper , nor was it the kind of thing for which he could pay a big design fee , so he described it on the phone and then he faxed me some pages of the existing papers , and I said well what you have to do is look at the old London Times and do that .
21 There 's only that bus stop and then it turns down you yet they charged me thirty five pence and that were n't even half past three .
22 THERE IS nothing particularly difficult about Creag Meagaidh , unless it comes up in a spelling test , yet it took me three attempts to get to the top of the damned thing .
23 Pressed more closely he told me that for a number of years Laura had lived an almost schizophrenic life , symbolized by two quite different wardrobes — one for her parents , ‘ the Goody-Twoshoes suits ’ , the other for what she believed to be her real self .
24 Afterwards he gave me signed copies of two of his books , ‘ Write your name clearly on this piece of paper .
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