Example sentences of "[vb past] me [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He lowered me into a chair at the foot of the stairs and stood above me critically . |
| 2 | Through George Wigg I became reasonably close to Richard Crossman who consulted me on a number of occasions — I have already described the Spectator libel case — but who , I must confess , turned out to be a disappointment to me , since the reputation he had earned for more than occasional unreliability I found to be entirely justified . |
| 3 | ‘ He met me at the station … ’ |
| 4 | Rich and Syb met me at the station . |
| 5 | I had supposed that Aunt Louise would be in bed , but she met me at the door ; opened it , in fact , and held it ready for me to come in , because there was something she was bursting to tell me : ‘ I 'm not staying in this cold place a day longer . ’ |
| 6 | My faithful driver , Murphy , met me at the gate , taking my bags and walking me past the vagrants and money changers to his car , an old American model that had become something of a collector 's item . |
| 7 | Ken met me at the entrance and guided me into a side room . |
| 8 | On the appointed Saturday in October , Micky met me at the railway station and drove me ( in a fairly elderly Morris Oxford with a canvas hood ) right down the High as far as the University Church , and there he parked ( no problem then ) . |
| 9 | But he s he met me on the road one day and he said to me , Miss , it would pay you to give a decent price for it , he said to me . |
| 10 | My father met me in the kitchen . |
| 11 | I loved it when a whole pile of notes met me in the morning and I did not surface till lunchtime . |
| 12 | You would n't recognise me if you met me in the bath . ’ |
| 13 | He smiled too , and stabbed me in the gut with the gun-barrel hard enough to make me suck in my breath . |
| 14 | P : I was coming home from a party with Robert Mitchum drinking cider when one of Shane 's gang came out and stabbed me in the arm … ( goes on for about ten more pages — Freudian Ed ) |
| 15 | He caught me around the waist and flung me to the floor . |
| 16 | When I left in December 1928 he succeeded me in the house as Captain of Games . |
| 17 | Asked by police what had happened , Mr Graham said : ‘ He attacked me with a hammer and I stabbed him . ’ |
| 18 | That is why they attacked me with a bomb . |
| 19 | ‘ But somehow that mistake sort of propelled me into an approach which is still very significant to what I do . |
| 20 | Seeing my stricken face the producer tried to offer some comfort and advice as he propelled me through the studio door . |
| 21 | He propelled me off the terrace and through the shuttered dining-room . |
| 22 | She menaced me with the extinguisher 's nozzle and , because I knew Ellen did not make idle threats , and because I knew she despised all displays of macho violence , I obediently stepped backwards and watched as she transferred the extinguisher 's aim to Sweetman . |
| 23 | Pahdra Singh mounted the pavement in his Bentley this morning and pinned me to the window of the Wimpy Bar . |
| 24 | only your mother was n't sure she asked me on the phone |
| 25 | The hon. Member for Linlithgow ( Mr. Dalyell ) asked me about the independence of the funding council . |
| 26 | The hon. Gentleman asked me about the degree of support from medical staff . |
| 27 | You asked me about the stance we were to adopt . |
| 28 | Bobby Lavender asked me about the target range . |
| 29 | One of the lads asked me at a dance how I had earned my living before I had got married . |
| 30 | ‘ Do you really wonder , ’ he asked me at an embassy function in west Beirut , ‘ why we wo n't claim compensation ? |