Example sentences of "[vb past] me [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The old bat led me astray in more ways than one . |
| 2 | First time I went to Norwich alone , he come up to school and got me out at half past nine in the morning . |
| 3 | It got me out of clearing tables for a living , but I thought it meant more than that . |
| 4 | But I mean of course they plugged me up with all sorts of things . |
| 5 | ‘ You 're the fourteenth person who 's worked out I 'm staying with Lucy and phoned me up with crazy stories about Liam . |
| 6 | Mrs Smith was a wild boar too , yet it was quite easy to differentiate them , as their expressions and personalities remained the same and Mr Smith regarded me kindly with little red eyes through the specs on the end of his snout . |
| 7 | ‘ What pleased me most about that , ’ he said , ‘ was that my mother knew about it before she died , so she could see I was getting somewhere . ’ |
| 8 | That dropped me down from second place . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | When Peter the Great gave up the first Russian fleet in southern waters after being disastrously defeated by the Turks in 1711 , he said that " The Lord God drove me out of this place , like Adam out of paradise " . |
| 11 | After buying me lunch in a new concrete hotel called , romantically , The Interflora , she drove me back at high Skoda speed through the centre of town — choke full out , engine howling in second gear as we skidded across wet cobblestones , clipping kerbs and narrowly avoiding the numerous potholes and dug-up sections where slow attempts were being made to repair the water mains , shattered by the minus-twenty-five February temperatures . |
| 12 | ‘ Listen , ’ she said , ‘ someone told me today about this survey in a women 's magazine . |
| 13 | You told me before about all this money she 's supposed to have . |
| 14 | I knew it was 2.06 a.m. because the bedside clock told me so in orange digits big enough to divert aircraft if the curtains had been open . |
| 15 | No I had a Group Manager who actually introduced me to this , I erm , I work out with him , but , he brought a , actually what turned me on to this was the fact that erm , where he is , he 's thirty six now , and erm , he 's got no mortgages , he 's got a , he paid eleven thousand pounds for a , a Kawasaki Z Z eleven hundred R super bike , worth that is |
| 16 | ‘ I had a tough childhood and it spurred me on to great heights . ’ |
| 17 | The recriminations and angst of an unhappy marriage that reverberated through my head could well have had a self-destructive influence in that lonely , haunting valley and finished me off for good , no doubt . |
| 18 | The boots served me well in wet weather doing an admirable job in keeping my feet dry , but on some of the hotter days this year I did find that my feet got unpleasantly hot and sweaty . |
| 19 | She came into my mind when a woman in the slums of West Kingston , Jamaica , with a child at her breast and another three hanging around her skirts followed me around for two hours repeating , ‘ Some milk would be better than nothing . ’ |
| 20 | I nearly fell over , he pulled me up with such a |
| 21 | Erm and I sli I yo pulled me up to one corner and I know it 's really nasty |
| 22 | He clued me in to some strategy . |
| 23 | They rang me up at eight o'clock one morning to be there |
| 24 | He rang me up at nine o'clock . |
| 25 | The two French Commandos accompanying me steered me away from these scenes . |
| 26 | Soon the Manston cone appeared on the port beam , and my London bobbie ( Special Branch ) steered me home via friendly beacons . |
| 27 | Rapt , ecstatic , she willed me on to ever-greater feats of ardour . |
| 28 | Then suddenly a doctor walked in all dressed up in his green gown and a face mask and said , " Hello , this is it then , " and a nurse took my ankles and shoved them into some stirrups and covered me up in all this green cloth . |
| 29 | You brought me here under false pretences last night , and the very least you can do now is take me back into town ! |
| 30 | Later that evening , when I was almost asleep , the sound of a crowd brought me back to full consciousness . |