Example sentences of "the [noun prp] [vb past] me [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the Abwehr recruited me to go to Ireland in forty-one I did the usual radio and Morse code course . ’ |
| 2 | Knowing that I wanted to speak to the bedu woman to learn more of her life , the Sheikha signalled me to stay while they moved out of the dining room , pulling their veils over their masks . |
| 3 | The Guv'nor told me to ride Ile de Bourbon in the big race telling me that I knew what he could do and that win was the biggest of my career so far but I 'll always remember Lester who had finished nearly last padding disconsolately into the weighing room and asking me ‘ Did you know your horse had improved so much ’ . |
| 4 | The study of the Buddha made me feel that I was in the presence of a very great religious teacher , a man of great compassion , who diagnosed man 's original trouble as greed , desire , attachment , the escape from which was the treading of the Noble Eightfold Path . |
| 5 | ‘ The HMSO told me to phone Brussels . |
| 6 | " Just before we left Iran , the Shah asked me to call Sadat , but the telephone was on strike , the telex also . |
| 7 | The skills of the midwives were everything I could have wished for and the NCT made me feel as if I was a useful part of the whole process . |
| 8 | When they applied for help with arrears , " The DHSS told me to sell some of the furniture or the telly . |
| 9 | The DHSS made me go to see them every day — I had a broken bone in my ankle but they still made me go every day ! |
| 10 | ‘ But the Bookman asked me to keep our meeting a secret . |
| 11 | He draws together from the Bible four strands in divine guidance which , taken together , pro-vide a confident basis for action , and avoid excessive recourse to that overworked claim , ‘ The Lord told me to do such and such . ’ |
| 12 | I remember ‘ laying down a fleece ’ that I would not proceed towards the ordained ministry unless the Lord enabled me to lead another to Christ before a certain date : there is nothing that concentrates the mind as such an agreement with God ! |