Example sentences of "he [vb past] me [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He prodded me through the door . |
| 32 | Then he invited me to a gypsy baptism which was to be held that night in the suburb of Vallecas . |
| 33 | He invited me onto the guest room , its walls decorated with pictures of Shiah Moslem saints , flanked by two pictures of Saddam Hussein in military uniform . |
| 34 | And on one occasion in the gymnasium , I turned round to look at a boy behind me and the master was there and he smacked me with the flat of his hand as hard as he could . |
| 35 | He helped me with the goats and with the work in the cornfields , and soon we were good friends . |
| 36 | He drew me into the family circle , laughing , telling his mother of my struggles , of the broken door , but when I started to take my veil off he would n't have it and insisted that I keep it on . |
| 37 | He just leaned on me and when he caught me with a left hook I was given a standing count . |
| 38 | I think he caught me at a vulnerable moment , when I was more worried about myself than I am now . |
| 39 | But I could n't get the door shut to lock him in and he caught me in the other cellar . |
| 40 | He caught me around the waist and flung me to the floor . |
| 41 | ‘ I left him because I could n't handle the shadow his expectations threw over me … the way he cast me as a member of his dream . |
| 42 | ‘ He cast me in the role of a sort of footballing Dick Whittington , and took down the vases from the mantelpiece to represent my stepping-stones to fame , ’ Bastin recalls . |
| 43 | He grasped me by the shoulder . |
| 44 | He approached me across the marbled swirl of shag carpet , looking like a prelate pumped up with helium , and solemnly intoned , ‘ Now , lad , cup your hands , here comes the anti-chocolate . ’ |
| 45 | He approached me in the Limes Club in Sheffield and said if I signed with him , he would fill my book and raise my fee — a promise which he fulfilled . |
| 46 | He referred me to a specialist , and shortly after my twenty-first birthday I went into hospital for tests . |
| 47 | He referred me to the first of several psychiatrists I was to visit for a year . |
| 48 | He beat me on a number of occasions , often for some trivial offence . |
| 49 | And he entered me for the scholarship , , and er , I won . |
| 50 | He buggered me for the first time that night , reaching round and putting his hand over my mouth , tearing me in two . |
| 51 | For example once he went to Rome on business and when he got back he told me about a building which was like the sky at night , so big that even when you stood in front of it you could n't believe you were actually seeing it . |
| 52 | He told me about an old school behind a high wall in a dirty street . |
| 53 | He told me about the Icelandic landscapes , harsh yet wondrous , of the coloured rocks in Landmannalaugar and the emptiness . |
| 54 | However , I can remember clearly my own alarm , bordering on terror , when he told me about the Butcher 's measuring rod . |
| 55 | He told me about the sheer quantity of submissions that the Review received and regretfully had to reject , and spoke admiringly of much of the material that does come to him . |
| 56 | He told me about the extensive work involved in restoring the area behind the cockpit . |
| 57 | He told me about the cross . |
| 58 | Because he he told me about the chap who was his agent . |
| 59 | I suppose I should be grateful he told me about the call at all , but he had to really , did n't he ? |
| 60 | I remember him chuckling when he told me about the big farm men who came to have their teeth extracted . |