Example sentences of "as he [verb] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I must have failed him in some way , to make him not like me , as well as him failing me . |
| 2 | He ca n't have talked to them for long , as soon as he saw me coming he cleared off quick . |
| 3 | Ellen was showing Rickie Crowninshield all the elaborate electronic toys that only Ellen wholly understood ; the radios , radars , weatherfaxes and satellite receivers , and Rickie was being surprisingly attentive , but as soon as he saw me he scowled and clamped a pair of headphones over his ears as though to make sure that he did not have to hold any kind of conversation with me . |
| 4 | ‘ Do n't spend too long on that phone , ’ my father said as he passed me , and continued up the stairs . |
| 5 | You like yams ? ’ he asks as he hurries me through the West Indian greengrocer 's and out the back . |
| 6 | I thought , in my anxious state , that the orderly gave me a funny look as he left me there . |
| 7 | But I stooped like lightning and got the nail up and into my skirt pocket — specially put on — and I was standing exactly as he left me when he jumped back . |
| 8 | We did n't look at each other as he kissed me perfunctorily good-bye . |
| 9 | He laughs as he tells me that it was very pretentious , but that when there were eleven gardeners ‘ it was OK to live in you know , especially during the war when you had all the people from Russia and Poland and so on ’ . |
| 10 | Lucker has elected not to do this as he tells me he would probably pass out . |
| 11 | When Dad joined us Albert greeted him just as pleasantly as he had me , and I thought at least they 're all happy this morning . |
| 12 | If he had a new night special , even if he later grew to like her , he would start by trying to play her up just as he had me , and , since she had told me herself , Daisy Yates . |
| 13 | As he took me round , it very rapidly became obvious to me that C&P did not take quality lightly . |
| 14 | And everything he did , as he told me several times in his Tel Aviv office , was strictly according to the law . |
| 15 | He cackled as he told me of his plan . |
| 16 | Mr Smith , the feast secretary , echoed these sentiments , as he told me how people who had left the village returned annually for the feast ; there were people here today from as far away as Bournemouth . |
| 17 | I went back to the Maggot 's foul house , where he kept his killer dog and astonishing collection of guns , and we sat on his makeshift verandah that overlooked a noxious and polluted creek and shared a few whiskies as he told me an incredibly tedious tale of how he had once sacked the quarterback of the San Francisco Sugar Plums . |
| 18 | He was not a bad looker , I thought , and shook hands as he told me his name was Freddy . |
| 19 | ‘ His present Head is hopeful , but , as he told me , no-one can predict exam . |
| 20 | From that time , he made it his ambition to become ‘ another Jack Johnson ’ , as he told me : ‘ It was a kind of inspiration to me as I was the only black kid in the area . |
| 21 | ( I can picture the laibon as he told me this , his son sitting behind him on a rock flossing his teeth . ) |
| 22 | I did as he told me , eidetically filling in the missing mass of water . |
| 23 | He , too , was being provocative , quite deliberately making it a clash of wills , but still smiling as he told me to get the bags into the Toyota . |
| 24 | As he told me he did not possess the book and had lost sight of the paper , I hurried to London , located it at the National Central Library , as it then was , copied out the essay in longhand ( being fed with sheet after sheet of paper by the rather puzzled girl at the reception-desk ) , and called with it at Faber 's . |
| 25 | He seems to have pleased certain customers ; he was once , as he told me , presented over the grille with some game , which , before accepting , he was naturally obliged to take to the manager 's office . |
| 26 | As he told me that he had killed perhaps ten , eleven or twelve people during the course of the war . |
| 27 | ‘ Yes ; and destroyed it as he asked me to do . ’ |
| 28 | Keith Lascelles took my hand , squeezing it reassuringly as he led me across the stage , up the wide stairway dividing the orchestra , and left me to arrange myself on the rostrum . |
| 29 | Now , " he said , placing a creaky arm across my shoulders as he led me through to the parlour , " I want you to meet Vron . " |
| 30 | They made respectful way for him as he led me through the village to a longhouse standing apart from the others . |