Example sentences of "it [vb past] me [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | WordPerfect for Windows Power Macros is one of those weighty ( 500+ pages ) books/manuals and although designed for the ‘ couple of steps up from a basic knowledge ’ reader , I did n't find it got me into the harder bits gently . |
| 2 | Even more so as it caught me with a mouthful of pancake and hot sauced prawns . |
| 3 | At one time I had this scrubbing brush and I used to spend the whole day scrubbing and I used to have a big pan and I used to boil my clothes up in it — it drove me round the bend … |
| 4 | It attracted me like a magnet when I was a youth , and soon as I could leave school I was up at the course for a caddying job . |
| 5 | It joined me for the rest of the holiday , much to the annoyance of my fellow passengers . |
| 6 | ‘ It hauled me to the ground with a thump and started mauling me on the back and neck . ’ |
| 7 | I had expected it to be cold but it surprised me with a suddenness that wrenched my breath away . |
| 8 | ‘ I remember it touched me on the shoulder . ’ |
| 9 | It hit me for the first time that the bands and comedians were going to be performing here for free , for John , for us . |
| 10 | When my feeble protests were ignored back there it hit me for the first time that I was n't a civilian any more . |
| 11 | The first thing I was conscious of was the smell ; I 'd ceased to notice it when I was in and out all the time , but after a week away from it , it hit me in the face . |
| 12 | And it hit me like a thunderbolt . |
| 13 | At the time it shocked me to the core . |
| 14 | I do n't know what it was about , but I know that it shocked me into the sort of terror that I did n't know I was capable of . |
| 15 | It shocked me in the same way as Room at the Top shocked me when I read it last year . |
| 16 | I say that I do n't know who the van belonged to , but it drove past when it saw me with the police . |
| 17 | But it pissed me off no end when he finally decided to change over because he shut up shop while he did it , leaving me with no Saturday job and no money . |
| 18 | I got on the buses at Trafalgar Square , it took me to the other end and brought me back again , and I got down and got on another one . |
| 19 | It took me about a day each to write , seal , stamp and post this letter of mine , but I managed to get the thing off in the end . |
| 20 | That is what it took me in the spring of last year , at any rate . |
| 21 | This might have been all very well for my ego but it put me in the position of a complete novice , with my boss listening critically from the platform to everything I said on his behalf . |
| 22 | But I was thinking , looking at them — ’ he gestured towards the tourists — ‘ seeing them in a group , it reminded me of a time in cadet school . |
| 23 | It reminded me of a diary that Bruce Page , the last editor of the New Statesman but five , wrote in these pages years ago . |
| 24 | A few days ago , when it had been snowing , I saw a group of Savoy cabbages standing frozen and benumbed , and it reminded me of a group of women in their thin petticoats and old shawls which I had seen standing in a little hot-water-and-coal shop early in the morning . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ It reminded me of a friend 's hand . ’ |
| 26 | I was reading an article ( Echoes , March 3 ) by David Isaacs about an old soldier 's experience in Singapore and it reminded me of a conversation with a friend in Carlisle . |
| 27 | The descent was nerve-racking and it reminded me of the slow , queasy way light planes come in to land in Himalayan valleys . |
| 28 | ‘ What really attracted me to this hat was its shape — it reminded me of the ones American tourists wear . ’ |
| 29 | It reminded me of the comparison the Stud Brothers made between you and |
| 30 | It reminded me of the London tubes during an air raid . |