Example sentences of "but [pers pn] [vb past] [prep] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | She did not respond to this , but stared at him , until he spoke again , saying , ‘ I 'd have been along before now , but I heard about me father the very day when we last spoke , and so I had to go off straightaway to Newcastle . |
| 2 | Anyhow I said well I should n't say this I know and I know times have altered , but I said it was n't er I said I 'm not saying it because Martine and Nicola were in it , but I said to me it was n't the same as when they were in it . |
| 3 | But I glanced behind me and saw — nothing . |
| 4 | But you 'd to me you do n't you do n't turn to stealing to do it for a one off . |
| 5 | But you asked for me , and I do n't handle your kind any more . |
| 6 | I know what boys are ] Walking stomachs ] I told her , you fetch two girls now , there 's just the one room , but she got round me , she said , the boy 's only a babby ! ’ |
| 7 | But she said to me , she goes er last Friday night she was ten pounds down . |
| 8 | I said to Bev erm do n't mean to say , I mean I might get home and find she 's got a phone call but she said to me yes I mean we , she did think of going out yesterday , and it was me that stopped it but if I feel so inclined today we 'll go down if she 's in |
| 9 | I wish I could have said that she was sweetly understanding , but she looked at me as if I were an incubus that had raped her and scraped along the brickwork , desperate to get past . |
| 10 | I was too upset to eat or drink , but she sat with me for some time , talking gently to me , wiping away my tears , and helping me to recover . |
| 11 | But they lied about me , James . |
| 12 | But they lied to me and I had to do it in English . |
| 13 | ‘ But they laughed at me . |
| 14 | But they appeared to me as if seen through the wrong end of a telescope , muted and unreal . |
| 15 | But they worked for me . |
| 16 | It was a shock to them , but they stood by me . |
| 17 | I tried to fight him off but he kept at me , panting ecstasy into my face and wagging his entire rear end . |
| 18 | Now as you know when we used to do the sums we used to have a little bit of paper and , and work it out on this separate bit of paper , but he said to me out of the blue he said , where did it , how did you get that figure ? |
| 19 | Eliot did not doubt the resilience or resolve of the British people ; but he remarked to me that he could not see a man like Neville Chamberlain coping with a major conflict . |
| 20 | But he laughed at me . |
| 21 | I spoke to him but he walked past me as though I was n't there … |
| 22 | He was a highly educated gentleman , a very well known Varsity athlete , but he came to me with a bad report that he was completely and utterly clueless about some of the finer points of simple take-off and landing procedures . |
| 23 | I tried to drive on , but he came at me with some story of having run out of petrol . |
| 24 | Then partly reassured , I thought , ‘ He entered me twice , but he came outside me . ’ |
| 25 | But he urged on me that it was the Prime Minister 's particular wish that I should do anything I could to prevent its publication . |
| 26 | He stutters , but he caddied for me for five years and he knows the game inside out . |
| 27 | ‘ Greg had hit his third shot about three feet behind the pin on the 17th green , but he turned to me and said , ‘ You know , Pete , I 'm so damned nervous I ca n't see the hole . |
| 28 | When we got to the 17th , the last par-5 , he hit his third shot about three feet behind the pin , but he turned to me and said , ‘ You know , Pete , I 'm so damned nervous I ca n't see the hole . |
| 29 | ‘ I forget what this Susan woman said exactly , but it sounded to me as though Chris Parker did n't like the idea at first . |
| 30 | It ill becomes a foreigner to look in and pontificate on a short visit but it seemed to me that Australia as a rich country had given them only material goods , which merely sapped their self-sufficiency and their self-respect . |