Example sentences of "[vb pp] me [prep] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For all she knows , the social services could have given me to another family . |
| 2 | On the machine build that he 's given me for this year , of which that is an example . |
| 3 | ‘ What do you mean to do , ’ demanded Harry , looking fiercely up at him from under drawn brows , ‘ now that you 've tricked me into this betrayal ? |
| 4 | One that has plagued me for some while . |
| 5 | Is it my Unconscious ( of the existence of which I have informed doubts ) that has dropped me in this plight ? |
| 6 | I have to say that nothing in my career so far has prepared me for this kind of work . |
| 7 | You 've probably saved me from some kind of demonic sacrifice . |
| 8 | Hast Thou ever seen me for that reason at all dejected ? |
| 9 | My little girl Natasha was with a friend at the time and because my mum had n't seen me for some time she was concerned . |
| 10 | ‘ If you were n't Eddie 's kid sister I 'd have given you a far harder ride for what you 've just accused me of this evening , so do n't push your luck , Dr Kate Ash , because you might come to regret it ! ’ |
| 11 | Oh no he would n't have had me in any case . |
| 12 | Before that , Rachel had simply been my younger sister ; prettier , brighter and sweeter than me , but that had never really bothered me until that moment , when I realised that Jacob obviously loved her far more than he would ever love me . |
| 13 | Before I left I tried to ring Nassim Nassim , my erstwhile landlord and Sunil 's cousin and , I 'd decided by now , the man who had got me into this mess . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's helped me through this depression , actually . |
| 15 | I remembered , however , that my father had told me of this sort of thing happening in the past , and the sands had always returned over the following few weeks and months . |
| 16 | ‘ You still have n't told me about this evidence you have against me , ’ Claudia said with an assumed air of indifference . |
| 17 | So — what is it you have n't told me about this man ? ’ |
| 18 | Some of the stories people had told me in that room would make your hair stand on end . |
| 19 | ‘ Why would you have told me in any case ? |
| 20 | Taking up residence in Colchester went very well — though I was a bit surprised to find that the ‘ de-skilling ’ process mentioned by the resettlement officer had indeed affected me to some extent . |
| 21 | ‘ There were the customary acclamations from the populace as I rode in procession to the Guildhall this morning — indeed it seemed to me that my subjects had never before greeted me with such enthusiasm , ’ Edward told her , gazing into the fire as if reliving the morning 's events . |
| 22 | I did then go about the task Mr Farraday had set me with some dedication ; I spent many hours working on the staff plan , and at least as many hours again thinking about it as I went about other duties or as I lay awake after retiring . |
| 23 | Once you became head of the department , you could have pulled me off this job at any time . |
| 24 | I make this point after returning from a day 's walking near Ullswater when I was approached by a party of walkers who had followed me for some distance thinking that I was headed for the same destination . |
| 25 | ‘ He could n't live with the thought that someone had touched me in that way . |
| 26 | ‘ My whole life has led me to this point . |
| 27 | Several years of research into our love of meat has left me in little doubt that most of us nowadays would prefer not to face up to the carnal origins of our flesh foods . |
| 28 | He had taken me for some kind of refugee from the Napoleonic Wars ! |
| 29 | He said ‘ I did n't say it was right ’ he said , ‘ I said that is what they perceived ’ and he turned to the person next to him afterwards , he says ‘ well , that 's finished me for any promotion a job for promotion ’ . |
| 30 | The reply , which has mystified me until this day , was , ‘ Oh ! we did n't know you meant that one ! ’ |