Example sentences of "[vb past] me [prep] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the interview they asked me about my future plans . |
| 2 | George Roman read me and after I 'd done the first reading he asked me about my own attitudes to the Part and then told me his as a director , which were completely different . |
| 3 | He then asked me about my sexual habits , to which I replied that I was heterosexual . |
| 4 | She asked me for nothing more , she did n't want to cause me problems , but I could n't just walk away from her . |
| 5 | ‘ Not to say meet , but Matthew Choak passed me in his old van . ’ |
| 6 | When I think of love or beauty or gardens , the images that moved me in my everyday life appear again and I feel the same sensations as when I first found them . |
| 7 | Later , Carl scolded me in his own fashion : |
| 8 | During my last two years at Eton , and my years at Oxford , Guy Rogers invited me to his covert shoots . |
| 9 | He saw the wisdom of this ploy and invited me to his next fight , when he lost his title . |
| 10 | " My life was formed only by means of the public library which provided me with my only uncensored access to books . |
| 11 | ‘ He caught me on my right thigh , my left foot came down and I did the splits . |
| 12 | She writes : ‘ My time spent ‘ at the University of Oxford ’ broadened my outlook in many respects and this helped me with my academic studies and writing from then on' . |
| 13 | It helped me in my desperate attempt to respect his judgement . |
| 14 | He conceded that his knowledge of the language was slight ; that is why he referred me to his young assistant . ’ |
| 15 | This came as something of a surprise , for nothing Victor Saunders had told me about the Priut refuge quite prepared me for my first sight of this three-storey silver sausage — an amazing futuristic construction with a dining room that looks out on a wonderland of peaks , and with some four-bedded dormitories which , if you 're lucky enough to be allocated one , ensures a degree of comfort far different from alpine-style overcrowding . |
| 16 | ‘ Later , my mother told me of her terrible foreboding that she had about me the day we made that first daylight raid on Berlin . |
| 17 | Rose Mundy told me of her continual battle with overweight thighs , a problem that had been with her for as long as she could remember . |
| 18 | Pat told me of her other' schemes for making money which , of course , never came to anything . |
| 19 | At the meeting , the Prime Minister told me of his personal knowledge of the suffering of cancer victims and of their families and friends . |
| 20 | IN DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES , a black cop sat in his office above the Criminal Courts and told me of his seven years with the Hardcore Gang Unit of the District Attorney 's office : ‘ I have n't worked on anything but a murder since I started here . ’ |
| 21 | As show jumper and trainer John Bunyan told me on our first lesson ( see next month 's diary ) : ‘ You have to work out the difference between ‘ Ca n't ’ and ‘ Wo n't ’ . |
| 22 | After explaining the nature of my quest , they told me about their own favourite legal high . |
| 23 | As he lit a cigarette , ( he rolls his own from a tobacco mix in a tin ) he told me about his early life . |
| 24 | ‘ I saw Doctor Rossitter this morning , ’ she said abruptly , ‘ and he told me about you both , and your — dilemma . |
| 25 | He scored a further success with Colonel Nathaniel Montgomery Moore who , on the visit which he , his wife and Miss D'Arcy had just taken to Dumfries , had encountered none other than Major General Gerard Lake , ‘ who told me about your great gallantry at Guelder — Gueld — ‘ |
| 26 | I think you told me in your last letter that he is having dinner with the Stapletons tomorrow evening . ’ |
| 27 | Without blushing , he told me in my own drawing room : ‘ I am a financial adviser to both the Duke and Duchess . |
| 28 | He had watched his sisters slide into prostitution , through financial and practical necessity , and told me in his Spanish dialect that he had become used to sleeping on the floor at home while they fucked a random selection of Cuban , Puerto Rican and American sailors from the nearby US Naval base at Subic Bay in the Philippines . |
| 29 | ‘ God help you , it 's the most exciting thing which has happened there since the man was buried , ’ he told me in his comfortably-scuffed office in Dublin . |
| 30 | ‘ I 'll forgive you , ’ said Comfort , ‘ although considering the trouble you caused me with your wretched tittle-tattle in the old days , I ought … . ’ |