Example sentences of "and then [vb past] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | As he lived in the city , Mr Coary drove me up to the Noones ’ for my bag and then took me all the way back to O'Brien 's Hotel in Dublin , where I had stayed long before . |
| 2 | The women who were working there looked at me in a kind curious way at first and then took me for granted . |
| 3 | They took me to the hospital , and then took me back home . |
| 4 | Towsie ( nickname for one of the foreign miners ) came and sat down beside me while the smoke cleared a bit , and then took me to the trench , which was full of red embers , roasting the rock as when you roast eggs in the ashes . |
| 5 | And she says her day with Becky and the team was a revelation : ‘ The Granada Reports people came to my house to film me in some of my own clothes and then took me to the Hillcrest Hotel in Widnes where I had my hair styled and my make-up done , and then tried on lots of different outfits . |
| 6 | You drew me through the undergrowth out into the light and then left me bare and hurting . |
| 7 | I had recently had my little girl , her dad had walked out on me , and I thought he was just another man who had what he wanted and then left me . |
| 8 | ‘ But if they only looked at me coldly , and whispered behind their hands about me , and then left me one by one ? ’ |
| 9 | Dad got me to read aloud to him and then offered me a barley sugar . |
| 10 | You rewrote the letter after the original had been burned , had your version photocopied and then sent me the copy . |
| 11 | George Roman read me and after I 'd done the first reading he asked me about my own attitudes to the Part and then told me his as a director , which were completely different . |
| 12 | Bless the lady : she gave me a large breakfast and then told me she had arranged with a friend who had a car to take me into Lochinver . |
| 13 | Well a as soon as she gave me this erm protective thing to wear and and then told me that I was grown up and every . |
| 14 | And then told me . |
| 15 | ask them for another go , of course she left it till she had the results and then told me so I 'm writing now to the |
| 16 | At the end of the placement , a ward sister signed my assessment form and then asked me to do the same . |
| 17 | I was hungry but had to wait while he fiddled with a saucepan and then made me endure the smell of the meat coming from it . |
| 18 | Cos it was Kelly that like , said , yeah , you 're my best friend , do you know what I mean , and then made me say Kelly 's my best friend , do you know what I mean ? |
| 19 | He just looked at me and then punched me straight in the face . |
| 20 | ‘ To please you , mortal — who promised me help , and then forgot me ? ’ |
| 21 | There was a woman who wanted me to call her mother , and then called me awkward , exasperated and frightened with the dreams and the screams . |
| 22 | He fell silent for a while and then answered me apologetically — in English . |
| 23 | ‘ He gently lifted my body up to take the weight off my wing and then freed me from the trap . |
| 24 | He left me to become acquainted with the religious environment , and then handed me a paperback entitled Modern Buddhism in Burma , which he had edited in cooperation with Kenneth Saunders , warden of the YMCA hostel , and already a translator of the Dhamma-pada , a collection of short sayings thought to go back to the Buddha . |
| 25 | Tremayne listened a bit and talked a bit and then gave me the receiver again . |
| 26 | ‘ Anyway , Jim putted brilliantly in all four rounds , finished equal seventh , genially accepted a cheque for about six thousand pounds and then gave me his own cheque for four hundred . |
| 27 | Does the Chief Secretary remember the October 1974 general election when he was my opponent in West Bromwich and then described me as a militant ? |
| 28 | ‘ I have had consultants who have done a full cowboy job and then charged me £25.000 . ’ |