Example sentences of "[vb past] me [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then laid me gently in bed . |
| 2 | And she was all right because when I got back here , she drove up and asked me over for coffee . |
| 3 | When I was making runs at Leeds Graham Gooch came up and asked me how on earth I was batting so well on that pitch . |
| 4 | He asked me back for lunch after the Eucharist . |
| 5 | They asked me in for tea , and we all listened to the morning news on Radio Tonga , crackling over the miles from the aerials down in Tongatapu . |
| 6 | ‘ Within four minutes he asked me out to dinner . |
| 7 | We chatted so much on that first date , and then Denise asked me out to dinner the next night . |
| 8 | My mother 's stories also led me away from home . |
| 9 | But I was promoting a Neil Diamond concert and one day he got me up on stage during this tour , and introduced me to the audience . |
| 10 | He often got me out of bed , late on an evening , to run an errand . |
| 11 | Well , the old chap come and got me out of school that morning to take this horse to Norwich . |
| 12 | Everything went wrong , but she got me out of trouble . |
| 13 | No I backed the first winner today and that got me out of trouble . |
| 14 | ‘ You got me out of gaol . |
| 15 | ‘ Like I said , ’ he explained , ‘ after those last months in Sweden , the Ruskis made me up to Captain . |
| 16 | Afterwards ( another former Lancaster student ) invited me home to tea , and in the evening , and I were entertained at home by |
| 17 | At Barvas Lodge knickerbockered ladies with good stud pearl earrings invited me in for tea . |
| 18 | She phoned me up at home on a Sunday , asking |
| 19 | ( 19 ) The whisky helped me not to stagger under the blow . |
| 20 | It were twelve o'clock when you went today , when you dropped me off at work . |
| 21 | Marcus , a senior with a smooth black face , drove me home from school . |
| 22 | Then I got back my artillery , and the subdued Jackson drove me back to town . |
| 23 | The old lady made me jump when she told me not to stare but to sit down and not be nervous . |
| 24 | ‘ He really turned me on to geography . |
| 25 | I offered Benn the chance to fight me in September and he turned me down in favour of fighting Mauro Galvano in Italy . |
| 26 | It was the unhappy love that taught me most about love 's nature — though not at the time , not until years later . |
| 27 | My scream brought Mum up to see what was wrong and when she saw my face she ordered me back into bed . |
| 28 | I did n't begin to feel again until anger kissed me back to life at the inquest . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'm glad you talked me out of Poetry and Jazz . ’ |
| 30 | For one thing I learned to cope with it better and then , well , I started growing and nobody singled me out for ridicule any more . |