Example sentences of "a [noun] [pron] [verb] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it is a part which gives me so much pain that sometimes I ca n't bear it — ca n't bear it at all . ’ |
| 2 | I am reminded of all this by a correspondent who tells me that she has had a pear tree ‘ for about 30 years and in that time , have only once had good fruit ’ . |
| 3 | Since I was becoming a scientist they encouraged me |
| 4 | One day Tom came to see me and poured out a story which told me the other side of his ambitious , over-achieving self . |
| 5 | He gave me a look which made me wonder whether Mavis had n't , after all , spilled the beans . |
| 6 | He gave me a look which made me wonder if the leather riding gear was knife-proof , then he sprang at the internal phone and pressed two buttons . |
| 7 | ‘ You are no better than our readers , ’ he said , fixing me with a look it took me years to forget . |
| 8 | I met a brother-in-law who told me to leave but I stayed another night in our new house just outside the village . |
| 9 | Like my father , when he was , when my mother first started going with him he used to smoke cigarettes quite hea heavily erm and er when he had a cold or something like that he 'd say , oh I must have a fag it helps me bring the phlegm up so erm in some ways they 're almost perceived as having a like a cur curative er |
| 10 | For when I was hungry , you gave me food ; when thirsty , you gave me drink ; when I was a stranger you took me into your home , when naked you clothed me ; when I was ill you came to my help , when in prison you visited me . ’ |
| 11 | For when I was hungry you gave me nothing to eat , when thirsty nothing to drink ; when I was a stranger you gave me no home , when naked you did not clothe me ; when I was ill and in prison you did not come to my help . ’ |
| 12 | Carey addressed the wealthy directly , quoting Jesus ' parable about the sorting of the goats ( the wealthy ) from the sheep ( the poor ) in St Matthew 's gospel : ‘ The curse is upon you … for when I was hungry you gave me nothing to eat , when thirsty nothing to drink ; when I was a stranger you gave me no home , when naked you did not clothe me ; when I was ill and in prison you did not come to my help . ’ |
| 13 | And all she could do , ’ Harriet , she says silently , what a betrayer you make me , immediately , ‘ all she could do was ask about the Royals , was Diana as beautiful as in Newsweek . ’ |
| 14 | The head of the family when I first remember them was William Henry Bayles who was Grandmother 's cousin and the father of a lady who taught me a little bit of music . |
| 15 | What a question you ask me now . ’ |
| 16 | When he told me you were pregnant by him , it was as though he 'd thrown a hand-grenade which blew me apart . |
| 17 | The restaurant is on a lease and I understand that when the lease ran out there was a law which entitled me to a new one . |
| 18 | When an emotionally articulate speaker wants to convey to me , not the fact that he is sad , but in what way and to what degree , his language becomes rhythmic and metaphorical , pulls me to his viewpoint to visualize his situation becomes a poetry which infects me with his melancholy and a rhetoric stirring me to help him , and afterwards perhaps I find myself regretting having committed myself to an action in his interests rather than my own . |
| 19 | It was less the fear of hell ( which seemed a long time away ) than the fear of being a non-person which prompted me to ask my parents if I could be baptised . |
| 20 | ‘ In a place someone lent me , ’ Flavia said with a closed face . |
| 21 | ‘ Why is it that when I do fall , it has to be for a termagant who drives me out of my head ? |
| 22 | And I have a job which keeps me in the public eye . |
| 23 | The combination of different faces produced a score which required me to inscribe a divided line or a single unbroken line on a sheet of paper . |
| 24 | ‘ No , but after what you told me I have a suspicion you kissed me that night at Ib 's Club deliberately in an effort to convince her you 'd found someone else to replace her in your heart and in your bed . ’ |
| 25 | Though engrossed in picking his teeth with a match he gave me a long appraising stare before addressing me in rich cockney . |
| 26 | What a fright you gave me ! ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Nellie girl , what a fright you gave me ! ’ |
| 28 | ‘ God woman , what a fright you gave me . |
| 29 | ‘ Oh , what a shock you gave me , ’ she said as the door slowly opened . |
| 30 | ‘ D ’ , my husband , did n't accept me loving another girl when I told him I was a lesbian , but after a while he accepted me as Carla — 100 per cent . |