Example sentences of "[vb pp] and [pron] [verb] me " in BNC.

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1 I told the guard at the reception desk in the dark , grim entrance why I had come and he told me to wait .
2 I was the first British person most of them had met and they see me as a bridge to the outside world , ’ she said .
3 Everyone says how well I 've done and nobody teases me now .
4 This is the first show of Cooper 's dedicated exclusively to this medium that I have ever seen and it impresses me as providing the ideal means for her to achieve that tenuous balance between coy decorativeness and crude primitiveness which she uses successfully to convey the psychological weight of a figure 's gesture .
5 The sound began before our search was completed and it stopped me in my tracks , leaving Malc to continue alone .
6 Our friendship developed and she invited me to write a Fount book .
7 And there 's a lady there , and er , got a caravan and her husband had died and she wanted me to swap caravans , her 's was actually a better condition caravan than mine
8 His eyes opened and he gave me a weak smile .
9 She said I ca n't promise you , so I thought well I 'm sat six months now , so I phoned this ship thing yesterday on the telly called Just Start , no Start Again whatever it 's called and they gave me , they phoned me yesterday and they gave me a number of Cine Hill , Northampton which is the job advisory centre , adults education and then they phoned me yesterday and they told me who to get in touch with so I 've got an appointment Thursday at erm Northampton with the Social Services Department and they apparently map out all the places where you could go , say , say for instance that St Crispin 's is the mental home I can go there and be with the patients and then I can go to the Marina 's and be taught how to lift and how to bed bath and how to manipulate
10 Anyway , I gave him the gist of what had happened and he asked me if I would let him know if we found her . ’
11 It was nearly forty years later that I met the man who had carried me into the only half track we had left and who reassured me .
12 So I really wanted to nail the bastard — preferably with the cooperation of my team-mates just to prove the point — but the fucking technology let me down and the gun jammed and he had me pinned , firing shot after shot at me , and finally I gave up trying to un-jam the gun and made to throw it at him though I could hardly see because there was yellow paint all over my visor , but he ducked and tripped and sat down on a trunk , holding his stomach , and the bastard was laughing his socks off because I looked like a giant dripping banana , only I 'd just realised the gun was n't jammed after all , the safety catch was on .
13 Then her face changed and she told me something so terrible , so strange , so annihilating that I ca n't remember a word she said .
14 And if you give me dad 's five pound well I can mark his off and then you can tell him then , I 'll leave your card here and you can say you 've paid and you owe me five pound .
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