Example sentences of "[vb past] me [prep] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ What really attracted me to this hat was its shape — it reminded me of the ones American tourists wear . ’ |
| 32 | She paid me for this week and she said well I you 've got ninety pound here |
| 33 | That 's why you heard me about this morning ! |
| 34 | Another thing that tickled me about that game was that when vinny had got his second he went over to one of the hoardings that had ‘ Alexei Sayle ’ written on it and kicked the shit out of it for some reason ( same goal I think as above ) |
| 35 | My quizzing about the intellectual world which I was about to enter with some trepidation left him with a wry smile , which puzzled me for some time after , as my naïvety about the world of further education lasted well into my early days in college . |
| 36 | Hit me with some conversation . |
| 37 | Lewis says his love for his mother Vi will keep him out of trouble , declaring : ‘ She brought me into this world and I consider myself a mother 's boy — I owe it all to her . |
| 38 | It was the young lady who now spoke : ‘ You wo n't remember , of course , I scarcely do , but years ago my grandfather brought me to this shop , and it was at Christmas time too . |
| 39 | Jim Pickering was one of the four : ‘ I was Red 2 in company with Red I and Green Section when I saw a Ju88 engaged by A.A. about 1,000 feet above us … he saw me at this height and turned in a circle onto my tail . |
| 40 | ‘ You remember how angry Alain became when he saw me with that book ? ’ she said . |
| 41 | Even Purvis treated me with more respect as I sauntered out . |
| 42 | I found a felt-tip pen in the desk drawer and addressed the envelope to ‘ Mr F. MacLean ’ care of a pub I knew in Southwark where they knew me by that name . |
| 43 | The situation is best illustrated by a letter that reached me at this time from Mrs Mugabe : There was no way in which I could reply to the letter except by a futile expression of sympathy . |
| 44 | She goes on slowly and naively : ‘ I 'm really glad , in a way , that you took me to that place . |
| 45 | I wanted to lash out at them : Vern did n't help me , I do n't need anyone to help me — he took me to this boat alone at night and we … |
| 46 | Ma took me to another barber 's in Stockbridge . |
| 47 | And she actually took me on this war work . |
| 48 | ‘ It 's nigh on two year since I 've been out that house , ’ said Bella suddenly , ‘ since the Warden took me for that X-ray after I fell over and hurt me wrist . ’ |
| 49 | They took me in this bungalow |
| 50 | That way you can tell yourself you took me from another man . ’ |
| 51 | Oh , Brian took me round that corner , right , slowed down too much |
| 52 | he took me round that corner for three times today . |
| 53 | She sent me to that convent , thinkin' she would make something o' me . ' |
| 54 | To do this he sent me to another sort of specialist who inserted through my neck a needle containing blue dye , guided it with the help of a television screen into the top of my spinal cord and then watched its progress as it trickled down . |
| 55 | It tormented me beyond all endurance , while at the same time the awful silence of the terrible prison weighed me down . |
| 56 | And it worried me to that extent that I almost went without your okay and rang up Terry and said , please fix those blinds , because we have got blinds which cost almost two hundred pounds or something and or a hundred and nineteen pounds , and it seems they ca n't fix them . |
| 57 | yeah well you know it 's okay well you know I well you know yeah it 's just that it worried me about this meeting here and three people out of the five people in the room did n't realise that it was a reservations and booking service . |
| 58 | It reminded me of that episode in Rudyard Kipling 's Kim where the boy is confronted with a shattered pot and comes under pressure to reconstruct it in his mind as it once was . |
| 59 | In the May issue of Latch On her article on knots reminded me of another tip — when using a length of yarn for a contrast marker ( on tension swatches or to mark the position for the sleeves , for example ) , make a small slip knot in the end of the yarn and place this on the needle . |
| 60 | I am bound to say that his personality and his voice with his Glasgow accent were a little disconcerting at first ( I felt rather as if I were being addressed by my highly educated carpenter ) , but he inspired me with such confidence as he went on that I forgot that , and of course one has to recognise that a new era in political life has dawned for England , the old aristocratic school is practically swept out of it , it is the dawn of the new " regime " . |