Example sentences of "he [vb past] [verb] me [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He had heard me talking to the Princess . |
| 32 | But here he had to leave me to attend to stores which were being brought on board , and some twenty minutes later I could see the place for myself . |
| 33 | There were moments when he took on too much ; and although I pursued the matter of our volume only because he had invited me to do so , I soon realized that I was asking more than I should have done , especially as I was uncertain at any moment whether my collaborators saw eye to eye with me about the scope of our project . |
| 34 | He kept up this sort of thing a while longer , but I refused to be provoked and in the end he had to let me go . |
| 35 | He was killed in the war , but by then he had got me made a member . |
| 36 | Whether he had been there by accident or whether he had spotted me arriving and slunk into position I shall never know , but from his point of view the result must have been eminently satisfactory because it was certainly the worst fright I have ever had . |
| 37 | My husband did n't like me talking about the theatre although he had encouraged me to do so when we were courting . |
| 38 | Without realizing it he had let me know that using French words , however few and halting , has a bewitching effect upon everything in London , animate and inanimate alike . |
| 39 | Downstairs he let me watch him make tea ( in the outer cellar ) , and something ridiculous he said made me laugh — or want to laugh . |
| 40 | He had dropped me a note the day he left advising me to sell , so sell I did , but despite many hours spent traipsing round the East End I could only find one interested party : Mr Cohen , who had for some years conducted his tailor 's business from above my father 's shop and wanted to expand . |
| 41 | When I was out of the room , he told Margaret that he wanted to see me write weightier books than that . |
| 42 | And he wanted to help me to get under way you see but I was n't long started farming . |
| 43 | When I tried to raise some of the education issues with the hon. Member for Dagenham ( Mr. Gould ) , he refused to let me intervene . |
| 44 | ‘ His jailers were certain he intended to have me killed , or they would not have treated me thus . ’ |