Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [noun sg] [verb] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | But no amount of reading from the prayer book gave me the comfort I sought . |
| 2 | The princess sang along with old favourites such as The Streets Of London and My Liverpool Home — plus the hospice hymn Give Me Oil For My Lamp . |
| 3 | ‘ It was the money grandfather promised me I was worried about . |
| 4 | However , a more careful analysis of methods of work and recreation in the Easter vac helped me to overcome these problems and be more in charge of myself , rather than being tossed about at random . |
| 5 | Oh , well that the money that I found out my pocket and the payment granny gave me . |
| 6 | The Mandarin Group offered me a package I could n't refuse . ’ |
| 7 | It was still quite dark , and so I flicked the light switch to aid me getting dressed . |
| 8 | The shooting schedule tells me they are night shooting at Tempelhof . |
| 9 | The management rep told me he 'd even heard whispers of sympathetic action among the statistical clerks . |
| 10 | Everyone and everything about the Medau Society gives me a special and warm feeling . |
| 11 | The Home Secretary told me in an answer to a written question recently that he has no plans to remove young people from the penal system . |
| 12 | The geezer at the recruiting office told me to fuck off . |
| 13 | I was probably asleep when the robot teacher told me the answer to that ! |
| 14 | ‘ The trouble with Joe , ’ one of his more affluent colleagues in the pop business told me , ‘ is that he suffers from the fatal curse of taste . ’ |
| 15 | I asked the security guard to order me a taxi . ’ |
| 16 | Perhaps I 'm sounding cynical , but the sight of Diana reaching for Lady Spencer 's arm during the funeral service made me feel quite sick . |
| 17 | My broadcasts for the war effort brought me into contact with the Chinese Ambassador to Canada , Dr Liu Shih Shen , who was , we learned later , a personal friend of Generalissimo Chiang Kai Shek . |
| 18 | The basketball player hated me , and the man with the big breasts would not shut up . |
| 19 | So the sent me to the er eye infirmary and of course the eye infirmary sent me to the blind school . |
| 20 | The Tourist Board asked me , ‘ Could you not write about real places so we can send people there ? ’ |
| 21 | As I walked to get the bus in Leeds , stiletto heels clicking , the town night enclosing me , I mused on the pavement . |
| 22 | I had the feeling I had been given most of the pieces , but not the boxfront picture to tell me how to put them together . |
| 23 | The Maggot dipped the starboard wing to let me take a picture of the deep water channel that dog-legged in from the west . |
| 24 | I had also had a very enjoyable weekend in Sheffield when the Salvation Army invited me to make an appearance . |
| 25 | But was hardly into my stride when the singing devil reached me . |
| 26 | So everybody bar the PE teacher hated me playing football and everything they could do to stop me playing football they did . |
| 27 | I hoped that would clear the whole thing up , so it was unbelievable when the cab driver picked me out . ’ |
| 28 | The cab driver dumped me outside my home for the next three months . |
| 29 | The auberge owner joined me at the door and stared with contempt at the sky . |
| 30 | The night watchman told me about the incident in the morning . |