Example sentences of "he [vb past] [prep] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tuned , intending to ask the English boy why he lived with me , why he liked my company . |
| 2 | ‘ Get her off — it hurts ! ’ he whispered at me , not daring to move or make too much noise . |
| 3 | ‘ Slowly , boy , ’ he whispered to me . |
| 4 | And , whatever the visual indications in the Sussex match , he whispered to me — marginally out of the skipper 's hearing — that he felt his natural skill was to spin the ball rather than flight . |
| 5 | ‘ I do n't think my plan will ever succeed , Ellen ! ’ he whispered to me . |
| 6 | " Mackerel , Ron ! " he whispered to me on the bridge . |
| 7 | Well he whispered to me last night , you know , then of course Laura told me everything cos she was there |
| 8 | " Hey , " he whispered after me , " you look smashing . " |
| 9 | When I joined others congratulating him after the performance , he beamed at me , ‘ What did I tell you ? |
| 10 | He beamed on me like an indulgent father promising a marvellous present off the Christmas tree . |
| 11 | In a way , this is just what he needed to make him realise how much he cared about me . ’ |
| 12 | I 'd never felt he cared for me but at last we sat and talked . |
| 13 | He cared for me , he loved me as I did him . |
| 14 | He winked at me with a slight shake of his head . |
| 15 | He winked at me as he did a Gary Cooper out of the room . |
| 16 | He winked at me and then scowled as though he had thought better of it . |
| 17 | And my goal was to bring him around to my way of thinking ; there 's no question that I stopped fooling around when he agreed with me . |
| 18 | He agreed with me . |
| 19 | The other pictures he sold to me , but very cheaply . |
| 20 | He did n't mind that at all , he argued for me . |
| 21 | But George was a born Canadian and knew no more about China than I did ; he shared with me the wish and determination to visit China , which seemed to us to be a land of fabulous culture . |
| 22 | ‘ The Prince of Wales discovered that I was to be at Broadstairs at this time ; my cooking pleased him , ’ he added simply , ‘ and voilà , he asked for me to cook this banquet too . |
| 23 | But with those grown to man 's estate , I think he fails ; he failed with me , or to put it more correctly , I failed with him . |
| 24 | By the time he got to me his accent was thick Cockney , all ‘ cor blimey ’ . |
| 25 | By the time he got to me he was n't ranting and raving , he just stared at me with mad eyes . ’ |
| 26 | Marcus was thinking : if Carter is positive , and if he was when he got to me , then I am . |
| 27 | Nigel was sufficiently worried about my feeble attempts towards the top of the ascent that he got below me each time I had to turn and pushed me forward into the slope . |
| 28 | He levelled with me yards away , |
| 29 | He read to me from Brendan Behan 's The Borstal Boy . |
| 30 | This is another of Nic Picot 's tricks which he tried on me in the pub outside the Magic Circle . |