Example sentences of "he [vb past] me [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I next saw the King , he asked me about this experience . |
| 2 | He asked me for 50,000 francs for Félix . |
| 3 | Much to my surprise , he led me towards one of the public beer tents . |
| 4 | He let me into one of his secrets when he told me that he tries to avoid cream sauces and prefers to use stock and wine reductions . |
| 5 | He overtook me after three tantrum-filled games ( mine , not his ) . |
| 6 | ‘ He beat me at New Marske and he was a target for me in this one . ’ |
| 7 | He received me with grave courtesy and enquired after my family . |
| 8 | He told me about this condition quite openly , including the impulse to throw himself over cliffs etc . |
| 9 | He told me of one case he had had of a woman in her early twenties . |
| 10 | Over the years , he told me on many occasions of his first day in business at Wilton when a young man . |
| 11 | He was an assiduous and permanent gambler of modest sums , He told me on one occasion that any year in which he did not win £1,000 was by his standards a failure . |
| 12 | With one of those insights which showed a mind much subtler than that of many of his contemporaries , he had drawn an analogy between logical positivism and surrealism ; but he told me on this occasion that he had once asked A.J. Ayer , as he then was , what political beliefs were compatible with logical positivism : to which the reply had been , not altogether to his surprise , that they would be decidedly left-wing . |
| 13 | He told me with simple gravity , as a matter decided and not to be discussed , that he had decided to resign his office . |
| 14 | ‘ To see the trash ! ’ he told me with childlike frankness . |
| 15 | He told me in one of his more lucid states that he ca n't write because he 's got too much to say … ’ |
| 16 | He acknowledged this when he told me in fluent English that he wanted to do a post-graduate degree in biology in the States . |
| 17 | He woke me at two this morning and gave me his best horse and bid me not to stop till I had overtaken you on the way . |
| 18 | ‘ But I thank God that He spared me for this ! ’ |
| 19 | But we forgot to dispose of the discarded furnishings , and six months later when I went to spend a few days with a senior Burmese colleague , he showed me with great satisfaction his small-town church , furnished with the discarded pews , pulpit , litany desks , with the collection bags being changed according to the ecclesiastical season ! |
| 20 | He telephoned me at three o'clock in the morning , and asked me to confirm it . |
| 21 | ‘ There was one teacher , Mr Richardson , and he encouraged me in all the sports I did , really . |
| 22 | So I went and saw a building contractor , friend of me Dads and er he welcomed me with open arms , he 'd just got a contract for building council houses down Dunson Street at Netherfield . |
| 23 | He hated me for that . |
| 24 | He threatened me with this throughout the examination period and until the day I actually left home . |
| 25 | Nervously reading from a statement , she said : ‘ He kissed me on both cheeks and placed his hand on my waist . |
| 26 | He humiliated me in other ways too . |
| 27 | Gaitskell never adopted me in the sense that Harold Wilson did later , but I became quite close to him and he employed me in quasi-political matters . |
| 28 | He waved me in first . |
| 29 | Wayne never found his rhythm on his serve and he did not get into the match until he broke me at 5–3 , but I did good enough to win , ’ said the 24-year-old 1991 Wimbledon champion . |
| 30 | I played his game and he rewarded me with encouraging remarks about my cancer-free future . |