Example sentences of "he [vb past] me [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | The treatment they gave him made me proud to be a Leeds fan . |
2 | He made me nervous just looking at him , his two hands pressing each side of my doorframe . |
3 | I stood there , I could n't say anything , he made me furious , they made me furious and anyhow I was ten times more embarrassed than furious . |
4 | trousers , boots , fucking the leggings , the gloves , the mask anything , he made me fucking walk into the sea . |
5 | So erm then er oh he asked me other questions . |
6 | Er , not in the decision , I I spoke to Mr and he asked me certain questions . |
7 | it will need for him to phone the firm then because he got me direct |
8 | Er and then he got me he er he got me interested in politics and he got me going to this N C L C evening evening classes . |
9 | Do you think he found me strange ? ‘ |
10 | ‘ I do , though , think he found me attractive , ’ Andrew told me . |
11 | That he heard I was so tremendously successful in the Gothic style that if he let me alone I should Gothicize the whole country , &c. , &c. , & c . |
12 | He told me strange stories of red-skinned men who wore eagle feathers , and their wise man fitted Doctor Agrippa 's description . |
13 | Because he was annoyed and he told me blank that they should have discussed the situation first |
14 | I walked like some sleepwalker as he showed me empty rooms and a steep , stone-vaulted cellar . |
15 | But I had a really good music teacher in high school and he taught me relative pitch . |
16 | Suddenly he cut me short and took me round the room and made me look at things . |
17 | Whether he thought it would be more unnerving than a show of rage or whether he imagined he owed me civil consideration , I was uncertain . |
18 | Of course I may be prejudiced — he called me Old Faithful . ’ |
19 | There was silence for a moment , and then Millie lifted her head as she said , ‘ He … he called me funny name . |
20 | He had a daughter my age called Zoe and he sent me illustrated books of Australian flowers and bird-life . |
21 | His body was rich with the smell of sweat and kahlua and he sent me sprawling and hyper with untold hormones upon the bathroom tiles , but one day , suddenly , actually it was night , parked atop Mulholland Drive with the car windows steamed and the upright stick shift pressing painfully against my lower back and my head banging against the passenger door , I was paralysed by the heaving horny heaviness of him and my climax was full and first — first time ever — but followed by a limpness in my body , dull as the shade of putrid beige , and later I dreamed he had invaded me in sleep and crushed me with his broadness and with pillows , though Crilly it was not suffocation I feared , no , it was something more abstract , more bodily and carnivorous , something akin to nameless reptiles , and it was not so very different from the gun and the windbreaker blowing large and puffy about a stranger 's gut like a tent in my car at Pico Boulevard , and I so sure I would be found dismembered and crotchless and gory and absurd , strewn from limb to limb across the green tweed upholstery , unrecognisable in death , and again the windows steamed , the windows steamed with that hot clenched nameless fist inside me and the glide of cool metal against my neck , and then there were no thoughts , no words in my head , nothing . |
22 | I would prefer he saw me naked . |
23 | Nor did I complain when he kept me awake , twisting and turning , sighing and moaning . |
24 | I let him sleep in my room at night , and he kept me awake for hours talking about Mrs Robinson . |
25 | ‘ ' Shortly after he looked me full in the face and said , ‘ You have been a good father to me and I am persuaded we shall meet again in heaven |
26 | he gave me poor result . |
27 | He gave me appropriate pills for Michael and departed rapidly . |
28 | Maybe it was obvious to most people but he gave me recharged confidence in the project . |
29 | ‘ I never knew whether I should believe that man … but , you know , he gave me great pleasure . |
30 | I nod , as if he gave me useful advice . |