Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] me [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1	In breaks in our work Edward entertained me with curious stories of the old alchemists .
2	To begin with Gyggle tried me on sensory deprivation .
3	Jack Kinley told me about one case .
4	A.A. rang me at 4 o/c she returned on 2nd and had had grand time with Gwenda and families .
5	Now er Richard rang me at five o'clock yesterday .
6	Despite this , at lunchtime Kathleen presented me with four hours ' pay and pressed me for a few more details to help her with her enquiries .
7	’ Rick Astley introduced me to these giant goldfish and I 've become totally hooked .
8	And he said , oh yes , he said , Roger told me about that , he said , I did n't even know we were getting that .
9	It was just that i it was almost in passing he said , well yeah Roger told me about that .
10	There had been conflicting stories as to whether Anthony had been intended , Wells having gone on record as saying he had been conceived in a moment of carelessness , professor Gordon Ray , who edited the West-Wells correspondence , as saying it was a deliberate attempt by Wells to keep Rebecca with him , and Rebecca herself as saying , ‘ Wells cheated me of all but one child . ’
11	It would not be whimsical to suggest that I still go to Arsenal now because of what Swindon did to me then : like a gambler who keeps playing because it is the only way to win back what he has lost , I still feel , somewhere in me , that I am owed for what Ian Ure and Jon Sammels and Bobby Gould put me through that afternoon .
12	At Dillons , assistant manager Graham Wilson told me with quiet confidence that ‘ at customer service we are good ’ .
13	‘ Robert told me in quiet tones and averted eyes how he climbed the stairs behind the prostitute in this house where she conducted her trade .
14	Joanne told me about that you
15	‘ Martha told me about this place , but I never thought I 'd see it , ’ he said .
16	Meanwhile as my visits to South Africa showed me in such a traumatic and depressing way the conditions of the majority have got worse there 's economic recession lay-offs , high inflation rate and growing violence more people have been killed in South Africa in the last two years than in any previous two years that you look at .
17	Soon Posi guided me over another bleak ridge to an innocuous-looking depression , with a broad flat slab of stone lying at its centre .
18	‘ Warton warned me of reciprocal traffic — probably out of the Isle of Man bound for Blackpool .
19	Little Liz told me about some of them .
20	Kareem stunned me with calm acceptance of the planned execution of a child , no matter what the crime .
21	Oh , Brian took me round that corner , right , slowed down too much
22	Once or twice Paula teased me about nude swimming , and once she gave me a brief conducted tour of the gardens and the house .
23	Ma took me to another barber 's in Stockbridge .
24	George thought shrugged and said : ‘ Sprague told me in deepest confidence but …
25	Just as we were about to leave , Frank Dick called me to one side and gave me a blistering reprimand .
26	I was n't on the hill that evening but Mrs Goreng sent me to one of the big communal TVs they had set up on poles in the Praça .
27	Pearse coached me for two years .
28	Then Romano took me to one side — my father was sitting at his desk — and told me that I had a great future in front of me and that people would be prepared to sell property to the Damianis .
29	Those days climbing at Swanage and the Lizard reminded me of some familiar truisms , so easily lost when one is chained to the desk : that the spice of adventure and uncertainty , faced in partnership with others who feel the same , is at the core of all good climbing .
30	‘ Kirsty MacColl bollocked me about that gay thing , right , because she had to defend herself to the people she knew saying , ‘ Look , Shaun ai n't like that . ’

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