Example sentences of "man who [verb] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | The taxi driver was a sharp-looking middle-aged man who told me that he was the landlord of the Dove bar in town . |
| 2 | I remember some years ago being called by a man who told me he had just now heard things for the first time in the Beethoven Fifth . |
| 3 | I could kiss the man who told me that , two years of happiness he 's given me . |
| 4 | ‘ [ The defendant ] is a violent man who told me of his past and of his having shot and killed at least three other men . |
| 5 | The man who told me about them is not afraid because he can do more harm to them than they can inflict on him . ’ |
| 6 | The man who taught me English could recite Burns by the hour . ’ |
| 7 | Here is a man who antagonised me and bothered me for 16 months and when I said ‘ yes ’ to fighting him again , he said ‘ no ’ . |
| 8 | It was the same man who followed me from the doctor 's surgery . |
| 9 | Pensively I roamed through a housing estate , stopped by a bearded man who asked me if I knew where Number Fifty was . |
| 10 | And my magic wrought true — for it was into your time I came , to Starr Hills , where I had walked four hundred years before ; and coming to meet me was a man who asked me simply if I were a mermaid , for he had seen me walking out of the sea . ’ |
| 11 | And , it was the attitude of the other men going to a , play another school , I came across this man who asked me who the referee was on that particular day ? |
| 12 | While I was sitting there , sipping my glass of hot , sweet Indian tea , I was approached by a shifty-looking man who asked me whether I could help him ; he had seen me with my camera ; could I help him mend his ? |
| 13 | What I do n't want is a man who takes me out for a meal , buys a bottle of cheap plonk and expects payment in the form of instant sex , either in the back of his car , or if he gets really lucky , in my flat . |
| 14 | ‘ You 're not as old as the man who had me first . ’ |
| 15 | Think about the man who shot me after I had saved his little girl from the river . |
| 16 | Somewhere there 's a man who took me fishing |
| 17 | A man who made me laugh and feel better . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ The man who interviewed me was just so English , ’ she informed me . |
| 19 | ‘ I ca n't marry a man who hates me — ’ her voice wobbled dangerously but she quickly brought it back under control ‘ — who believes me to be a traitor , without a single question or … or … ’ |
| 20 | A man who calls me dyke intends contempt rather than solidarity . |
| 21 | A woman with a vacuum cleaner whose tube I fell over , the man who sold me withered flowers , even the couple who let their dog foul outside the gate were all candidates for a warm hug and a deluge of good wishes . |
| 22 | Have n't I seen over the years what it has done to my husband , a man who lifted me off the shelf just before my sell-by date expired ? |
| 23 | ‘ This came from the man who found me the assassin , ’ he went on . |
| 24 | Yeah , I have worked all my life in various jobs and I 've never yet met a man who hated me nor have I hated any man , and I think there must be many women here who think the same thing . |
| 25 | ( I do n't like a man who beats me . |
| 26 | It occurred to me that I should perhaps wait for my daughter Sophie outside her school , to make sure she understood that I had not abandoned her , had merely left Lou for a man who loved me and would make me happy ; that things would presently calm down , and as soon as Hugo and I had sorted things out a little and established our new home she could join us . |
| 27 | One young man who impressed me immensely was from Scunthorpe . |
| 28 | However , when she wrote down ‘ I 'm afraid that if I find a man who loves me … , one evening , she was amazed to find words spilling out on to the paper . |
| 29 | I have read my Foucault , I am aware of the conceptual shortcomings of a timeless , essentialist homosexual identity , I might even want to take the step of putting quotations marks around the word ‘ gay ’ — but the man who queerbashed me some years ago did not put quotation marks around his fists . |
| 30 | ‘ I ca n't marry a man who expects me to love him . |