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 .
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