Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [verb] me [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She virtually kidnapped me to bring me here , ’ he said . |
| 2 | So , then th er asked them to ring me back . |
| 3 | Sacha reveals : ‘ It was only a year ago that I found somebody to teach me how to sing . |
| 4 | I , i it used to be something I put up with when I was younger , now , if my parents come to visit I ask them to smoke in the corridor , go out of the door , open a window , something , because I found it affects me so badly ! |
| 5 | ‘ Was there a particular reason that caused you to look me up after all this time , James ? ’ |
| 6 | Then when I proposed the next day , and made you tell me exactly how far you 'd gone with other men — ’ |
| 7 | I risked them seeing me so as to try to hear , but in fact by the time I could hear them they were shouting , which meant I could listen through the doorway without seeing them or being seen . |
| 8 | One of them slugged me to shut me up . ’ |
| 9 | Accordingly , I wrote to my parents and , having pretended for years that I was relatively happy at school , I now confessed that I was utterly miserable , and begged them to take me away . |
| 10 | So when I pe when I sit , when I think oh right I 'll have a piss up session this Saturday and I see one of my friends getting absolutely slaughtered it puts me off straight away because I think oh stupid , what , what a waste . |
| 11 | I did it , she said in a clear voice : I heard someone calling me so I got up and came downstairs . |
| 12 | As we walked she told me how she had always resisted her brother 's attempts to persuade her to emigrate to Pakistan . |
| 13 | When he returned he surveyed me again . |
| 14 | ‘ I needed something to get me back in shape . ’ |
| 15 | So I came out with my speech about this weirdo , nothing in it et cetera et cetera , and then the money ran out and I got her to ring me back and I said it all over again ( nothing in it … ) and she hooted and said , ‘ I 'll bet . |
| 16 | ‘ It probably amused her to keep me there , unknowing , continuing to act as her lady-in-waiting , having to obey every order , every whim . |
| 17 | I asked her to turn me over . |
| 18 | I asked her to show me where she 'd seen it . |
| 19 | I asked her to bring me up a pot of tea , and when she had gone , inspected the room further . |
| 20 | He said : ‘ I asked her to drop me off at the nearby Woodcutters Club . |
| 21 | I asked her to tell me when she reached the point in the imagined scene where she felt she wished to stop walking along the street . |
| 22 | Probably the same dislike of children led her to desert me immediately after my birth , and also caused her only to return on that one , fateful occasion when she was at least partly responsible for my little accident . |
| 23 | I made him take me on a bit farther at the risk of him thinking I lacked the right sexual tactics . |
| 24 | I made him take me round and round , ten or twelve times . |
| 25 | ‘ Harry asked him to see me home , ’ Fiona said placatingly . |
| 26 | I was so offended I asked him to leave me alone . |
| 27 | When Jancey asked him to help me out , he thought it was just a neighbour under threat . |
| 28 | She did n't have the guts to say wait until the next day , when she saw me ring me up . |
| 29 | Luckily Ski West sent someone to pick me up . |
| 30 | But after a little gentle persuasion , she has allowed me to tell you she is Maggie Lomas , the regular director of our main news programmed She knows me pretty well by now — after all , we 've worked together for more than 20 years , including the recent series of " At Home " programmes . |