Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] me [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd picked up some cream that they 'd given me for a skin rash , stuck it under my blindfold and said , in a curious high-pitched waver , ‘ Champignons ? ’ |
| 2 | Then I 'd wondered if some women who 'd stopped me on the path had taken it . |
| 3 | They probably thought you 'd added me as a convoy . ’ |
| 4 | Anyhow , ’ he continued , ‘ the three of us spent the day locked in consultation , as Marc called it , the result being that he came charging to my rescue , routed the two con-merchants , who thought they 'd got me over a barrel , and generally behaved like the perfect human being he is . ’ |
| 5 | But at least he did n't spot that until he 'd got me on the committee . ’ |
| 6 | The two biffos would have come sneaking through the door , rubbing their hands and telling themselves they 'd got me by the balls , and I 'd have pointed the extinguisher and put out their fire . |
| 7 | He 'd invited me to a supper dance after the show on Christmas Eve . ’ |
| 8 | Instinctively , I dipped my fingers in the holy water and crossed myself , remembering the Catholic aunt in South Armagh who 'd raised me for a while as a child and had anguished over my black little Protestant soul . |
| 9 | My parents were fond of travel , and they 'd brought me on a trip , long before people had even heard of package holidays . |
| 10 | That was nice of Nevil , he 'd provided me with a cover story — I was supposed to look as if I 'd been mugged . |
| 11 | Once he 'd introduced me to the Princess , he never said another word . ’ |
| 12 | Well Laura and Gemma wanted to make these pasties and she 'd asked me at the weekend and I did n't have the time because I think Irene came down cos I asked Irene whether she 'd looked after , you know I 'm at college until three , and she said yeah I 'll pick them up and er I could n't get her out at then so I promised she could make them so , I said alright you and Gemma make them , anyway they did very well they made them in about fifteen minutes because we had to go and get Emily at four from school , I said hurry up , hurry up put the water in Emily quick stick them together shove them now and put them in the oven |
| 13 | But they 'd asked me for an epitaph not an editorial and , in any case , I 'd already got the clear impression that most of these unaccustomed mourners could recognise a tolling bell when they heard it , but that like so many of the other warnings that had been laid on them over the years by teachers , social workers and magistrates , they had simply decided that any other way of life was simply too dull , too straight , even to be contemplated . |
| 14 | ‘ He 'd struck me as a very kind , caring man , so I rang him and found myself pouring my heart out . ’ |
| 15 | She looked up at Trent , as if seeing him for the first time : ‘ I 'd have drowned if you 'd left me on the Key . ’ |
| 16 | I 'd said the right thing and she 'd buttoned me as the one who signed the cheques . |
| 17 | But he liked gripped me on the arm and then his hand would appear from nowhere during the concert , he like kind of rubbed my arm and are you alright ? |
| 18 | Sapt had hidden me in a room in the old castle , and he and Fritz brought her to me there . |
| 19 | The newcomer listened in his turn to the description Mrs Zamzam had given me of the events that led her to run away from Um Al-Farajh , occasionally nodding agreement or interrupting to correct her account . |
| 20 | I turned to find that a girl had joined me at the bar . |
| 21 | I had heard the bell toll … the wave of ecstasy which drove me on to this shore had pressed me into a dark , dull interior . |
| 22 | For half a second you might have thought his fist had smashed me across the room , except that I follow through my dive into a roll and end up squatting on the floor , eight feet away , with the pistol pointing straight at his guts . |
| 23 | After visiting Bruce Hutchison , the next stop would be at the home of Mrs Nellie McClung whose books ‘ Clearing in the West ’ and ‘ The Stream Runs Fast ’ had impressed me as a youth . |
| 24 | Last time I had been to Paris they had rescued me from the freezing streets and hungry wolf packs . ) |
| 25 | I felt proud that Mr Rochester had trusted me with the story of his past life . |
| 26 | It was nearly forty years later that I met the man who had carried me into the only half track we had left and who reassured me . |
| 27 | If a pollster had approached me in the run-up to the election , I would have said I was voting Lib-Dem , because I had a sincere intention of doing so . |
| 28 | The same morning Mrs Singh had approached me in the school foyer , handed me a bag full of letters , and burst into tears . |
| 29 | Our Minister had reminded me of a sermon by a former St. Andrew 's minister , about ‘ A Garden City , ’ where there would be realisation of the twin idelas : service and society . |
| 30 | The veiled women had reminded me of the nuns . |