Example sentences of "he [vb past] me [prep] a " in BNC.

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1 He lowered me into a chair at the foot of the stairs and stood above me critically .
2 Asked by police what had happened , Mr Graham said : ‘ He attacked me with a hammer and I stabbed him . ’
3 ‘ Do you really wonder , ’ he asked me at an embassy function in west Beirut , ‘ why we wo n't claim compensation ?
4 ‘ And there was a sailor there — submariner , I think he was — and he asked me for a date , but I said no . ’
5 he asked me for a few slices of bread which he broke into pieces and scattered over the roof .
6 He asked me for a light and I offered him one of my Gauloises .
7 He come round and he asked me for a change of a fiver .
8 He asked me in a very slow and serious voice , looking at me with solemn eyes .
9 Where was Um Al-Farajh , I asked him , and he led me to a large square of fir trees and pointed to the earth .
10 He led me to a large , upright scallop of rock .
11 He led me to a long , low building .
12 He led me into a corridor .
13 Then he invited me to a gypsy baptism which was to be held that night in the suburb of Vallecas .
14 He just leaned on me and when he caught me with a left hook I was given a standing count .
15 I think he caught me at a vulnerable moment , when I was more worried about myself than I am now .
16 ‘ 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 .
17 He referred me to a specialist , and shortly after my twenty-first birthday I went into hospital for tests .
18 He beat me on a number of occasions , often for some trivial offence .
19 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 .
20 He told me about an old school behind a high wall in a dirty street .
21 But he told me of a new home just completed , where Aunt Louise had been offered a place .
22 He told me of a visit he 'd made to California .
23 But a friend put some perspective into it when he told me of a recent visit to the Half Moon , a venerable pub venue in Putney : ‘ There were all these posters on the wall of bands from 20 and 25 years ago , and I thought , ‘ Cor , they must be valuable . ’
24 In that case , he told me with a grim expression , there was something he had to warn me about .
25 ‘ It did not work , ’ he told me with a laugh .
26 ‘ I seriously thought of studying English literature — or becoming a cook ! ’ he told me with a laugh , ‘ but then Imperial College London offered me a place in mathematics . ’
27 ‘ I 'm not anti-drink , I 'm anti the abuse of drink and the hassle that it causes , ’ he told me during an interview carried out in one of the three plush hotels he owns .
28 ‘ If you English tourists get too powerful around here , ’ he told me over a glass of grappa , and with a particularly charming smile , ‘ I think I can remember where the old machine-guns are buried . ’
29 He told me in a general way that he was American .
30 ‘ I 'll definitely stick to wearing them in the future , ’ he told me in an exclusive interview .
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