Example sentences of "[vb past] me in the [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 | But I could n't get the door shut to lock him in and he caught me in the other cellar . |
| 3 | You helped me in the early days . |
| 4 | She was once a Tory activist , but told me in the first week of the campaign she had lost faith . |
| 5 | She-She then parked me in the aromatic cubicle . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Two dates faced me in the late summer , early autumn of that year . |
| 8 | ‘ But John Reed knocked me down and my aunt locked me in the red room , ’ I cried . |
| 9 | It shocked me in the same way as Room at the Top shocked me when I read it last year . |
| 10 | Bradford TEC responded immediately , helped me understand its systems and guided me in the right direction on form-filling , etc . |
| 11 | That 's really how he persuaded me in the first place to pretend … ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Craig hurt me in the first round , but Robert told me to work harder and it all went well . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | They had me in the holding cells at headquarters . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | When I had the baby , Stephen , the screws left me in the outside hospital but they took my clothes . |
| 17 | ‘ The sessions not only pointed me in the right direction for obtaining information , they taught me a lot about the sort of questions I should be asking . ’ |
| 18 | Mbanefo was a splendid man of total integrity and his colleagues impressed me in the same way . |