Example sentences of "and [vb past] me [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then she made me promise to get them back to her in one piece within a week and sold me two tickets to a Ward Bond Retrospective at her film club in Ponder 's End . |
| 2 | The qualities I had cultivated to help me through , such as diligence , such as dignity , such as keeping my peace , had been , after all , weapons which isolated me and made me loathsome . |
| 3 | The sun moved , came on me , and made me erotic . |
| 4 | That is until we stopped for a toilet break in a lay-by , when the howling gale and torrential rain lashed our naked bottoms like a Cabinet minister in a Soho sauna , and made me glad to be back in the car beside the sleeping-bags . |
| 5 | His long silence worried me and made me frightened . |
| 6 | She paced me and paced me wrong . ’ |
| 7 | Well , like I said , I was sound asleep when Danny 's receiver started crackling and jerked me awake . |
| 8 | You have already judged me and found me guilty . |
| 9 | I found it unbelievable at that time that boys would genuinely want to ask me out and found me attractive . |
| 10 | ‘ I was really upset but she came and found me later , ’ said Tessa . |
| 11 | Until some bloody Fauve went and painted me mauve |
| 12 | Some months later , after his treatment had ended , he wrote and told me that , during his summer holiday , his curiosity had led him to visit Bristol and its surroundings — and he had had the somewhat strange experience of finding his former name on a Parish Register in the district of Yate . |
| 13 | When my elder son was born and I was having difficulty in breast-feeding him , my mother sympathised with me and told me that , just after I was born , she had had an abscess on one of her breasts and found feeding me something of an ordeal . |
| 14 | She 's just been in here and told me that my Yorkshire pudding ! |
| 15 | ‘ The Professor came to see me yesterday evening , and told me all of it . |
| 16 | As I was recovering , Hannah , the housekeeper , came to sit with me , and told me all about the family . |
| 17 | And me , he took me round to the YMCA locker room and photographed me half dressed . |
| 18 | Sopworth smiled , extended the bottle and poured me another half inch . |
| 19 | The turrets and gables of Templecombe were almost in sight beyond the trees when my horse whinnied and shook me awake . |
| 20 | Anyway this woman , the problematic one , stopped me in full view of everyone and handed me this folded piece of paper . |
| 21 | I was full stretch on top of his grace when the eyelids rolled up and showed me two white lights . |
| 22 | He picked up the dice , and showed me six sides . |
| 23 | I only once went into his garden , a beautifully kept one , even in war-time , when he kindly picked a bunch of tulips for me and showed me some new potatoes he was growing in pots in the greenhouse . |
| 24 | A motor horn sounded off behind me and scared me silly . |
| 25 | I found peasants who sheltered and fed me that next day . |
| 26 | ‘ My good fortune lay in working with great men who were patient with me and taught me good habits that were never to be forgotten . |
| 27 | Rye praises the IT she has received : ‘ The project has kept me off the streets and taught me useful things like carpentry . |
| 28 | He explains : ‘ This is because Alex Ferguson helped me on my way in football when I was 14 years old , and taught me most of the things I took with me from Aberdeen . ’ |
| 29 | GEORGE HERRINGSHAW/ASP Bryan Gunn : ‘ Alex Ferguson helped me on my way in football when I was 14 years old , and taught me most of the things I took with me from Aberdeen ’ |
| 30 | And rang me this morning . |