Example sentences of "[vb past] me in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead of joining the press of bodies that jammed up the aisle towards the crush bar , he took my arm once again and drew me in the opposite direction . |
| 2 | In response to some implied criticism I made of his treatment of the sub-editor , Porua regarded me in a sneering silence and then said , ‘ Why should I have regard for my fellows ? |
| 3 | But I could n't get the door shut to lock him in and he caught me in the other cellar . |
| 4 | You helped me in the early days . |
| 5 | ‘ I have also been to the Guildhall , ’ he mournfully concluded ‘ The mayor told me in no uncertain terms how displeased His Grace the Regent Duke of Lancaster is at our lack of progress . |
| 6 | ‘ He told me in a general way that he was American . |
| 7 | On inquiring where the bathroom was , the woman told me in a timid voice that although it was the door facing mine , there would be no hot water available until after supper . |
| 8 | March , the Secretary of State told me in a parliamentary answer that he was setting in train a new procedure for the appointment of a successor to Eric Bolton . |
| 9 | The Minister also told me in a written reply about the education and social opportunities that were available to young offenders . |
| 10 | Lord Palmerston sent for me and told me in a jaunty way that he would have nothing to do with this Gothic style , and that though he did not want to disturb my appointment he must insist on my making a design in the Italian style which he felt sure I could do as well as the other . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'll definitely stick to wearing them in the future , ’ he told me in an exclusive interview . |
| 12 | She was once a Tory activist , but told me in the first week of the campaign she had lost faith . |
| 13 | She-She then parked me in the aromatic cubicle . |
| 14 | ‘ People were hugging and kissing each other as my car powered its way to the finish as they joined me in an early celebration . |
| 15 | The chairman of the committee telephoned me in the late spring of 1976 to say that they were organising a series of public meetings at Wapping when the committee 's plans for the area would be disclosed to the local population for the purpose of hearing their comments and enquiries . |
| 16 | Two dates faced me in the late summer , early autumn of that year . |
| 17 | Sometimes he immediately pounced upon whatever I said and showed me in a psychoanalytical way how wrong I was , and how right he was . |
| 18 | ‘ But John Reed knocked me down and my aunt locked me in the red room , ’ I cried . |
| 19 | It was n't until they made me squat down and then taped my wrists to my ankles and stuck me in a large sack that I accepted that it was n't going to be a truck , but a car-boot move . |
| 20 | It shocked me in the same way as Room at the Top shocked me when I read it last year . |
| 21 | Bradford TEC responded immediately , helped me understand its systems and guided me in the right direction on form-filling , etc . |
| 22 | That 's really how he persuaded me in the first place to pretend … ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Craig hurt me in the first round , but Robert told me to work harder and it all went well . ’ |
| 24 | This took me in a gentle curve round the flanks of Great Coum towards the Barbondale road , Combe House , the track past Tofts , and back to my home for tea and crumpets . |
| 25 | My need of M. Chaillot 's advice put me in a weak position . |
| 26 | The romance of the French Foreign Legion struck me in the same way , and especially the exhibits from Kolwezi and Chad , where there were photographs of camouflaged paras with shaved heads and sunglasses helping starving babies . |
| 27 | You had me in a fine old tangle of emotions . |
| 28 | They had me in the holding cells at headquarters . |
| 29 | He quoted me in the same paragraph , but somehow omitted some key words about the commitment of both Novell and USL to preserving the business model by which USL serves its licensees . |
| 30 | The effort to face up to the fact and its consequences demanded all the will-power I could muster , and left me in a mental turmoil . |