Example sentences of "[vb past] me [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One year prior to this she consulted me because of night sweats and oedema . |
| 2 | The moment I touched the ground I knew why — the excessive ( to me — but normal to Tiree residents ) wind whipped me and my heavily laden briefcase into the lounge where Peter McMillan , Manager of Scarinish Branch offered me the relative calm of his car . |
| 3 | Next came a terrace of three three-storey houses , in the first lived the Salisburys , the name always amused me when I was small . |
| 4 | He may well have imagined when he met me that he was acquiring the means of escape from the kingdom of the past . |
| 5 | You made it plain from the moment you met me that you were available , but you miscalculated if you imagined I 'd fallen for your little scheme . ’ |
| 6 | I had n't been in the force very long and my sergeant met me and said , ‘ That chimney 's smoking . ’ |
| 7 | I flew out to Chino , California , where the aircraft was based , Merril met me and flew an impressive display in the aircraft . |
| 8 | So anyway , erm they met me and Bert had to go back to his office and Will said he had to go back to his office , but he said , What would you like to do ? |
| 9 | The grim knowledge that she was on the verge of suffocation appalled me and when she stumbled and almost fell the hand in my pocket gripped more tightly on the scalpel which I had taken from my car along with the adrenalin . |
| 10 | ‘ You attacked me and tried to force yourself upon me , you wanted to blackmail me , you followed me around and spied on me in Helmsley — and you say I 've nothing to fear ! ’ |
| 11 | I was on my way to the bank with £7,000 when a masked gang , carrying guns , attacked me and a friend who was with me . |
| 12 | One morning , as we were sailing round the Cape of Good Hope , they attacked me and tied me up . |
| 13 | Well , since I am going to kill you anyway — an intruder in my house , I met you , drew my gun ; you attacked me and in the ensuing fight the gun went off , unfortunately killing you — I — ’ |
| 14 | All of that I could understand , but it concerned me that she was so nervous and desperately unhappy . |
| 15 | Nevil choked me until I almost passed out , then he lifted me out of the driver 's seat and bundled me into the back of Armstrong , hitting me on the back of the neck with what could have been an anvil but was probably his fist . |
| 16 | And then she slopped herself down , got a fag and just about choked me and Auntie Alice out and then she did start to speak . |
| 17 | ‘ Yes , the old man battered me when I was a kid , ’ Frank said , and laughed again . |
| 18 | A sort of bovine preoccupation enveloped me when Rebecca was on the way . |
| 19 | A sudden misery enveloped me as I drove over to the gate leading into the field . |
| 20 | As we pored over his crippled handwriting I felt a steady heat coming from his body like an aura which slowly enveloped me and seemed to penetrate the very marrow of my bones . |
| 21 | She asked me whether I 'd taken the cat to the vet , and I admitted that I had n't . |
| 22 | One interviewer asked me whether the riot was not a cry for help by the rioters . |
| 23 | She asked me whether I could help her to remember the events of that dreadful night . |
| 24 | She had read about the benefits of regression , and asked me whether she could go back to her childhood and try to uncover any other hidden details which might be relevant . |
| 25 | About midday on 29th. the Navy in Malta suddenly asked me whether I could search along the Greek coast for the remnants of the Italian Fleet which was believed to be escaping northwards . |
| 26 | ‘ He asked me whether I wanted to go to Borners . |
| 27 | Perhaps he noticed , for he stopped and asked me whether Jean-Claude ever spoke of Montaine . |
| 28 | Pleadingly , he asked me whether I could think of anything . |
| 29 | You asked me whether I thought we could trust the boy . |
| 30 | He asked me whether I would prefer to see Bologna and spend the night there , or to drive directly to Verona . |