Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [verb] me [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Singh agreed to tell me when she heard from the doctor . |
| 2 | Did I tell you Madeleine came to see me again shortly after you left ? |
| 3 | Perry tried to kill me off — as if one could kill an abstraction , a measurement . |
| 4 | Frank tried to fob me off . |
| 5 | Maxine came to see me again the following week and we began the follow-up treatment , along the lines of those which you will find detailed in the ‘ case histories ’ sections of this book . |
| 6 | After a while I said , ‘ Doone came to see me twice . |
| 7 | I heard nothing more until a year later when Carol came to see me again . |
| 8 | I was uncomfortable talking about the poems and Rory 's papers ; the bag lost on the train coming back from Lochgair at the start of the year had stayed lost , and — stuck with just the memory of the half-finished stuff that Janice had given me originally — I 'd given up on any idea I 'd ever had of trying to rescue Uncle Rory 's name from artistic oblivion , or discovering some great revelation in the texts . |
| 9 | Frank had accused me before of ‘ messing up ’ the relay , and had told me that the rest of the team were of the same opinion . |
| 10 | Mick had disturbed me more than he knew . |
| 11 | Once , when very drunk , Simon had phoned me late one night to try out a new concept , the ‘ Uzi-O-Gram ’ , which had the catchline ‘ Shoot up your girlfriend 's wedding , just for fun ! |
| 12 | In my own relatively trivial example what struck me forcefully was the assumption that being born in Canada seemed to make me more ‘ one of us ’ in the Immigration Officer 's eyes than ‘ one of them ’ , despite the fact that , within terms of the European Community , being Irish should make me far more of an insider . |
| 13 | When Ivy went to see her she said oh Mrs Mr came to see me yesterday afternoon he brought another gentleman with him , a nice gentleman so I she said I think they were taking the census , they got me to sign a paper . |
| 14 | Dorrie had helped me finally dress and my father and I went to the Church . |
| 15 | But readers can appreciate my reason for feeling that brother Louis had let me down badly . |
| 16 | Mick and Paddy had left me just south of Adrar . |
| 17 | We tried one yesterday in and Vicki had to pull me out did n't you ? |
| 18 | But Posi promised to lower me slowly , to raise minimal dist from where the beam hit the ground . |
| 19 | ‘ So I went back to Alassio and at the end of the month Constanza came to pick me up and to tell her mother . |
| 20 | But Ngugi managed to lift me out of my armchair and place me inside his imaginary village of Ilmorog . |
| 21 | I was n't put off by the fact that Jo had told me not to call or see her . |
| 22 | They found the picture of Jill that Sayeed had given me more than eighteen months before . |
| 23 | All the stresses of Thursday and then having to entertain Nicola had left me truly cream-crackered . |
| 24 | Since Frank 's departure , Tom had played cards with us more often and Terry and Bri started teaching me how to play poker . |
| 25 | Before I left Ruritania , Princess Flavia asked to see me again , and Fritz took me to her . |
| 26 | Gradually , however , Joe came to see me less as an interloper and increasingly as a friend who happened to share both his home and his mother with him . |
| 27 | That attracted Pompey , and Whittingham explained : ‘ I decided to buy myself out for £450 and take the plunge — I 'm glad to say Portsmouth did pay me back the money — and I 've never really looked back . |
| 28 | When lovesome God did send me here |
| 29 | When lovesome God did send me here |
| 30 | Liz had written me off . |