Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun] [vb past] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | My wound was probed and bandaged , and then the fool of a medico bled me , evidently under the impression that it would calm a supposed fever . |
| 2 | When Maxim Gorki as a young man read a story by Guy de Maupassant , he marvelled ‘ why the plain , familiar words put together by a man into a story about the uninteresting life of a servant moved me so ’ . |
| 3 | Later that evening , when I was almost asleep , the sound of a crowd brought me back to full consciousness . |
| 4 | Ann Smith , who was at junior school in Haltwhistle , Northumberland , remembers : ‘ I know I felt really sad but the thought of a Coronation cheered me up a little bit until I found out it would not be held until the following year . |
| 5 | So , when the captain of a ship asked me to go with him to Guinea in Africa , I agreed . |
| 6 | In the morning the ringing of a bell woke me , although it was still dark . |
| 7 | Benjamin 's modest but handsome little portrait seems to want to relay a message to us : I may not be blue-blooded , it says , but please do n't for a minute put me down as any kind of manual labourer — I belong to the established and rising ranks of the artisan middle-class . |
| 8 | I swerved nearly into the embankment at the side of the road as a thought struck me . |
| 9 | YOU recently mentioned con tricks well , I was waiting at Lime Street Station for my mother when a well-dressed man with a briefcase asked me for £1 . |
| 10 | A man with a clipboard told me that the cutting of the tenons is a dangerous practice . |
| 11 | So I did — and all of a sudden a man with a gun grabbed me round the neck and dragged me off . |
| 12 | Azar called me over and with a flourish sat me down on a plastic deckchair at the front of the ring of spectators . |
| 13 | I had just seen Dad and another man carrying a tool box to safety when a loud shout from a policeman sent me scurrying back from my vantage point . |
| 14 | ‘ A great many years from now , in another universe , a man in a mirror told me to do nothing . |
| 15 | A woman from Nairobi who is a laundry worker in North London but whose husband works in a bank told me about her daughter . |
| 16 | To find such understanding in a book gave me strength . |
| 17 | A child in a doorway saw me coming through the olives and called , and then the entire population of the tiny hamlet appeared — four women and half a dozen children , unmistakably islanders . |
| 18 | Once , this woman from an agency stopped me in the street and offered me a job and I travelled to Manchester to her agency , but they said : you 'd need to lose a few pounds , and get rid of this spot , and things like that ; and I thought : I ca n't be bothered . |
| 19 | THE THOUGHT OF ASCENDING BEN NEVIS ON A SATURDAY FILLED ME WITH dread . |
| 20 | cheeseplant languishing at a window told me , |
| 21 | And although I enjoyed cuddling Steve , I could n't bring myself to go any further — the thought of being touched by a man filled me with horror . |