Example sentences of "have [vb pp] me in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is it my Unconscious ( of the existence of which I have informed doubts ) that has dropped me in this plight ? |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I believe that it was a good inheritance , and one that has stood me in good stead all my life . |
| 4 | In essence , what has stood me in good stead all these years in broadcasting is spotting good people and waiting for them to come forward with what interests them ; what obsessions , what passions they have in translating those into programmes . |
| 5 | It is not the only time my profound knowledge of football has stood me in good stead . |
| 6 | He could have broken me in two with one hand , but he could not break my spirit . |
| 7 | I 'm very sorry , ’ said Breeze sedately , ‘ that you should have seen me in that cowardly moment . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Why would you have told me in any case ? |
| 9 | Oh no he would n't have had me in any case . |
| 10 | ‘ The adrenalin was pumping and my experience should have stood me in good stead . |
| 11 | ‘ The adrenalin was pumping and my experience should have stood me in good stead . |
| 12 | Bill 's call had shaken me in more ways than one , so I dispensed with discretion . |
| 13 | Some of the stories people had told me in that room would make your hair stand on end . |
| 14 | ‘ He could n't live with the thought that someone had touched me in that way . |
| 15 | It had left me in White Face 's power . |
| 16 | Every word of speech , song and prayer was in English , a great change from the services to which an Irish friend had taken me in 1960s Brighton . |
| 17 | I said , coldly and pompously — he had put me in such a strong , moral position by hitting me — that if he really felt I was such an awful wife , if would be better if we got a divorce . |
| 18 | The formal methods of teaching , the accent on the ‘ three Rs ’ , had stood me in good stead and in those aspects of school work I was ahead . |
| 19 | He 's got me in such a state that I 'm as useless as he says I am . " |
| 20 | he 's put me in two rows like that |
| 21 | It 's stood me in good stead and I 'll keep doing it . |