Example sentences of "and [pron] [vb past] me [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | I recently had some bad news and everyone helped me through it and gave me great support . |
2 | I went everywhere and no-one knew me at all . |
3 | After about half an hour , the shooting died down and someone helped me inside the Cathedral . |
4 | If I remember correctly , I could get to either and someone put me on the system . |
5 | Although this is an isolated example it is typical of the problems I encountered and which led me to the conclusion that the product simply is n't ready for release into the market in its current form . |
6 | It did n't get any better and somebody told me about and I took her down there , oh Mrs she 's picked up mange , I said mange , I know she said you feel just like when your child 's got nits in their hair |
7 | Once before I told you something that Angela Thirkell said , and you sold me to Edna [ E. Box , the painter ] , who sold you to Olivia , who told someone else , who straightway wrote it in a letter to Angela herself . |
8 | He told you that , and you told me in your letter . |
9 | And you encouraged me in my mistake ! ’ |
10 | So when I came back to England , I consulted two elderly ladies , one a doctor , the other a spiritual medium , who work together , and who told me about the past lives I had had . |
11 | Lissa 's money gave out , and she told me over an international phone hook-up that she was n't interested any more . |
12 | She took from my coat a hair which was not there , and she told me to be careful . |
13 | He told May , and she told me to be careful . |
14 | Steffi never misses a chance of coming to Britain , not only for tournaments , and she told me of her delight at discovering a street market on a recent visit . |
15 | And she told me about her relations , of one young cousin in particular , who had never thrived but sat by the fire instead of going to school with the other children , not growing an inch . |
16 | We nibbled olives and she told me about Italy . |
17 | Betty 's seen it and she told me about it . |
18 | ‘ You know , I gave her that room to herself when she came to us , because I thought it would be better , and she treated me like a servant — well , you saw , did n't you ? — and when she 'd got all the fun and sense of power out of that little game she started coming down with us . |
19 | The woman was in her early forties and she asked me for £5 straight away . |
20 | She came over to me one night and she asked me for a lift . |
21 | And she asked me for the fifty P . |
22 | She left her second cup of tea , and she followed me to the front door . |
23 | And she sent me to a mother and toddler group , I mean , she did n't tell me about any self-help groups , it 's mother and toddler , she just said take you and the baby and go to mother and toddler and that 'll be it . |
24 | The Fernies got rid of her when I left and she walked me to the front gate . |
25 | And she took to me and she took me to Liverpool and they were very good to me . |
26 | ‘ I 'll call back at noon , ’ he said to the buttons on her breast pockets , and she led me to a changing room full of paper nighties before turning to greet the next chicken on the conveyor belt and rewinding the tape to : ‘ Hi there , welcome to Surgicentre . |
27 | I was too scared to speak to her because she was a bit on the large side and had a pair of glasses sitting on the tip of her nose and she struck me as a very bossy , short tempered teacher . |
28 | I had a wife once , and she got me into trouble … |
29 | ‘ It 's awfully wild , ’ she said , ‘ but you are going the right way ’ — she was proceeding east and going into the storm at the time — and she thanked me for opening the gate . |
30 | I was intoxicated with her — and she played me like a fish on a line . |