Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun prp] [noun] [vb past] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | Peggy van Praagh told me that , even so early , de Valois had said to her ‘ I think he 'll make a choreographer ’ , but she was already trying out several other aspirants , so could not give him immediate chances . |
| 2 | Next morning , as I went to take in the milk , Mrs Rankin , our Burnfoot Avenue landlady greeted me . |
| 3 | But Britain 's Vice-Consul Harold Jenkins told me : ‘ Sadly it may be quite impossible for them to make positive identifications . ’ |
| 4 | I had invited any of the hospital staff who had cared to come , and my ‘ Dawes Road ’ friend Miss Dorrie Pierce told me that church folk had organized a little wedding tea , and my husband-to-be had ordered and paid for a wedding cake . |
| 5 | The manner in which the hand-lettered sign on the side attacked Senator Edward Kennedy told me more than enough about them . |
| 6 | Hugh de Tracy refused me his daughter as if I had less worth than the slave who cleans out the garderobe tunnel . |
| 7 | Sir Hector Pittendrigh interviewed me . |
| 8 | Of this Miller writes , ‘ It grows naturally in the West Indies , whence the late Mr. Robert Miller sent me the seeds ’ , and it would seem likely that Ehret 's specimen had been raised at Chelsea . |
| 9 | Listening to the hon. Member for Islington , South and Finsbury ( Mr. Smith ) saying that it was not the Government who had thought of the citizens charter but Mr. Herbert Morrison reminded me that old habits die hard — in particular , the old habit , much beloved of socialist Governments everywhere , of rewriting history . |
| 10 | After the prize giving , Mr Andrew Satow , Major Rupert Lendrum , and Mr John Grant joined me in the car and we drove , still in torrential rain , to Heathrow Airport where we joined Lord and Lady Marchwood Baron de Montesquieu , and Mrs John Grant . |
| 11 | A boat returned me to the little coral landing-strip ; Friendly Islands Airways took me down to Tongatapu ; and within half a day I was settled in a small hotel in Auckland , waiting for the weekly Cathay Pacific jet home . |
| 12 | More than forty years later , the Cornish and De von Post put me in touch with one of the other boys from Black Rock , Stewart Barr-Hall , who confirmed that we were never in any kind of danger . |
| 13 | The person I saw that morning in the sunny gallery of the Palacio de Anaya reminded me of James Dean , not so much in physical appearance , though they were alike in presenting the essence of a certain youthful American type of the period , as in an instant personal magnetism , a cocksure and irresistible sexual charm . |
| 14 | But strangely enough , St John Rivers found me crying as he approached the cottage . |
| 15 | And the wounds , sir — you bear them very well : the leg , Major General Lake told me , was very badly crushed . ’ |
| 16 | With the most impressive efficiency and a phone call to Tucson , the American Express Office in Avenida del Sol issued me with a fresh set after half an hour 's verification : necessary , Ian told me , because there are so many freeloaders who keep on going by selling their cheques and claiming they have been stolen . |
| 17 | I do n't think the woman in the New York Avis office believed me when I told her that I wanted to hire a convertible . |
| 18 | ‘ Doctor Henry Jekyll sent me here on an important matter . |