Example sentences of "he [verb] me [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he irritates me by repeating things over and over again . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ He beat me at New Marske and he was a target for me in this one . ’ |
| 3 | He received me with grave courtesy and enquired after my family . |
| 4 | He told me with simple gravity , as a matter decided and not to be discussed , that he had decided to resign his office . |
| 5 | ‘ To see the trash ! ’ he told me with childlike frankness . |
| 6 | He acknowledged this when he told me in fluent English that he wanted to do a post-graduate degree in biology in the States . |
| 7 | But we forgot to dispose of the discarded furnishings , and six months later when I went to spend a few days with a senior Burmese colleague , he showed me with great satisfaction his small-town church , furnished with the discarded pews , pulpit , litany desks , with the collection bags being changed according to the ecclesiastical season ! |
| 8 | So I went and saw a building contractor , friend of me Dads and er he welcomed me with open arms , he 'd just got a contract for building council houses down Dunson Street at Netherfield . |
| 9 | He humiliated me in other ways too . |
| 10 | Gaitskell never adopted me in the sense that Harold Wilson did later , but I became quite close to him and he employed me in quasi-political matters . |
| 11 | I played his game and he rewarded me with encouraging remarks about my cancer-free future . |
| 12 | He reminds me of gay Peter . |
| 13 | He introduced me to burly , red-faced Bertrand de Macon , the master of a fat-bellied cog and prospective third partner in our business venture . |
| 14 | He introduced me to good restaurants in Paris , good food in Lugano , and good wines in New York . |
| 15 | On the contrary , he greeted me with easy cordiality and asked : ‘ What do you think of cigars ? ’ |
| 16 | He greeted me with scrupulous courtesy and a welcoming smile . |