Example sentences of "and [pron] [vb past] me [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean if I was a peasant and someone told me to give up drinking then I 'd , you know |
| 2 | It is against this background that I approached the construction and which led me to prefer the interpretation which bases the assessment to tax upon the actual cost to the employer rather than the hypothetical cost arrived at by dividing the number of pupils into the total cost of providing full facilities . |
| 3 | This is a male view of the matter , in which women are attacked , and which had me admiring these ugly sisters . |
| 4 | Two recent examples from my own constituency — and which prompted me to think of this idea — illustrate the advantage of giving people this freedom . |
| 5 | Nobody told me to become a stand-up comedian and nobody told me to go on the fucking telly . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ My God , you bloody swine and you made me carry … ’ |
| 7 | And you told me to come September for about the cream . |
| 8 | ‘ I did and you told me to trust you and I did , and I do , but you wo n't tell me anything — ’ |
| 9 | was a spent match , and you told me to drop it . |
| 10 | So did many whose professional and intellectual concerns were with education , and who obliged me to reflect more on schools and on what , whether by intention or not , they did . |
| 11 | One very generous gentleman in London , who imports pianos from Poland and who heard me playing the organ in the programmes , has offered me a brand-new piano as a gift . |
| 12 | ‘ I went into the cell and she told me to fuck off out of it . |
| 13 | I asked her if he 'd returned home and she told me to mind my own business . |
| 14 | she 's quite good and she said well you 're intelligent , you can do this for me and she had me doing this like phone calls ringing people up and |
| 15 | They 'd put her into a side ward and removed the mirrors and she asked me to peek under the cloth and tell her what she looked like . |
| 16 | ‘ And she left me to work it out . |
| 17 | I was wondering how on earth I should endure these hunting days , especially when they all came back and crowed over me about the jolly time they 'd had , and then I thought , by jove , there 's Alexandra Abbott and she does n't hunt and she made me laugh more than anyone has for years . |
| 18 | All through the pregnancy I felt special , then suddenly all my friends did n't want to know me , only one friend , Karen , and she made me feel worse , as she was so glamorous and I was sitting there all fat . |
| 19 | And she made me feel about two inches high |
| 20 | I sat in the back with Rayleen ( could n't you have guessed ? ) and she made me put my right hand in her lap while she ran her fingertips over most of the rest of my body looking for other injuries . |
| 21 | Then , to me : ‘ We went to Orkney last summer , and she made me crawl in through a ghastly tunnel into some underground charnel-house . |
| 22 | Well she taught me to knit and she taught me to do a lot of embroidery and that sort of thing . |
| 23 | After tea we would sometimes walk round their garden , and she gave me tips on gardening which have since stood me in good stead ; and cuttings , which still bring her to my mind . |
| 24 | I explained about the dysentery , and she urged me to put my feet up . |
| 25 | And she wanted me to baby-sit last , like , last no , what day is it today ? |
| 26 | 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 |
| 27 | She was the first pig I 'd ever met , and she set me thinking , and reading up on pigs . |
| 28 | And she got this ginormous magnifying glass and she nipped me face , just there . |
| 29 | She used to go down so she would n't get beat up , and she used me to go . |
| 30 | Our friendship developed and she invited me to write a Fount book . |