Example sentences of "he [vb past] [verb] me [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then he tried to force me to take the damn' thing , and I had to call attention to my delicate condition . |
| 2 | He was also dubious about the interview ; he tried to persuade me to settle for interviewing Ortega 's brother , Humberto . |
| 3 | There was a lot of tooth-sucking for a while as he tried to get me to say more and that was almost funny , given that it was the tooth-sucking that made me think of it in the first place , suddenly thinking . |
| 4 | As I got out I caught the enigmatic Mr Goodson sneaking in through the front door , but if he 'd seen me pull up , he did n't wait to say Hello . |
| 5 | Moore 's start in athletics came relatively late when he was 14 : ‘ One of the PE teachers at school had a son at Birchfield and , after he 'd seen me jumping well at school , he said , ‘ Why do n't you come down ? ’ |
| 6 | He 'd seen me working only once . |
| 7 | He 'd seen me read . |
| 8 | Well , I do n't reckon he 'd heard me coming . |
| 9 | But I was n't struck by any thunderbolts or lightning flashes , and when talking about the dance afterwards in the Met Office I merely remarked to the officer on duty that I 'd met a very nice corporal and he 'd asked me to go to the Station cinema with him on Saturday . |
| 10 | He 'd asked me to go and see him in the evening to continue the interview . |
| 11 | By midnight , he 'd asked me to marry him . ’ |
| 12 | The school he 'd wanted me to go to so that I could be as clever as he had once been and go to Oxford the way he 'd done and not waste it as he had been foolish enough to do . |
| 13 | The sod would probably breathalyze me after he 'd made me drive him home . |
| 14 | He 'd caught me talking to or |
| 15 | Then there was a strange silence , as if we 'd come to a full stop , as if he 'd expected me to react in some other way . |
| 16 | For the first term I felt guilty I 'd abandoned him even though he 'd told me to come and could stand on his own two feet . |
| 17 | Thought he 'd got me weighed up — eating out of his hand . ’ |
| 18 | reset and that 's how I met up with bleeding Tony he came to visit me meeting a friend , it 's only me he said oh go round and see this girl I know and she was related to my best mate , it 's a complicated story and we sort of went from there really |
| 19 | I felt I had to do something , he seemed to expect me to do something " . |
| 20 | He sang If You Were the Only Girl in the World and he sang Help Me Make It Through the Night . |
| 21 | But he did hurt me did n't he ? |
| 22 | He did ask me to marry him , but I rejected his proposal . ’ |
| 23 | But he did allow me to examine it and bring it away with me . |
| 24 | He did invite me to become a parliamentary Labour candidate in the 1945 election . |
| 25 | ‘ Oh , Tilly , it was a foolish thing … supposing he had seen me standing outside his house ? ’ |
| 26 | And he had seen me walking from my hotel apartment with Dana — Americano , he said disdainfully . |
| 27 | And my magic wrought true — for it was into your time I came , to Starr Hills , where I had walked four hundred years before ; and coming to meet me was a man who asked me simply if I were a mermaid , for he had seen me walking out of the sea . ’ |
| 28 | I thought that he was already a man when I was born , that he had seen me growing up , and I thought of the strange , sad , frightening creatures who haunted the borders of the woods watching the children play . |
| 29 | He had asked me to go and work with him when he opened The Chicago Rib Shack , but I told him I thought the location was wrong . ’ |
| 30 | I could n't believe he had asked me minutes after first meeting him . |