Example sentences of "a [noun] [vb past] me " in BNC.
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| 31 | cheeseplant languishing at a window told me , |
| 32 | In 1965 , soon after How Children Fail appeared , a teacher wrote me saying , in effect , ‘ I have just read your book , and like it . |
| 33 | Because I made a mistake once when a teacher told me that there was n't prejudice in this school . |
| 34 | At school , I 'd write rude poems for my mates so , when a teacher turned me on to Linton Kwesi Johnson , it was like ‘ Yes ! ’ ’ |
| 35 | When a waiter asked me , and the people I was eating with , sentence ( 2 ) in Task 2 , we understood him , even though , in textbook terms , his words might seem to be nonsense . |
| 36 | ‘ A director asked me if I was a gardener and when I said not , he said it was ostentatious . |
| 37 | In yet another shop , a lad told me that he hoped to obtain a more powerful model in about a month but he did n't have any literature I could look at . |
| 38 | ( A screw told me that a prison regulation stated that there should only be two chairs for every three women . ) |
| 39 | A gentleman stopped me as I was coming back and he said do you own a white Austin Metro . |
| 40 | ‘ A friend lent me hers for a few weeks . |
| 41 | When a friend asked me the car 's name I answered at once — Anastasia Fyodorovna Romanova , Princess of all the Russias . |
| 42 | A few years ago a friend told me that he once started counting them . |
| 43 | The idea for this book began in the back of a taxi , the night a friend told me that a famous Scottish football manager had enjoyed rampant sex in a television studio with a well known TV presenter . |
| 44 | A friend told me recently that she no longer called herself a Christian . |
| 45 | Anyway , a friend told me that there was a band a long time ago , in the '60s , that had the same name . |
| 46 | After two weeks with no sign of improvement , a friend told me of an excellent new rheumatologist who had just come to work in Chester . |
| 47 | ‘ A friend told me that the only adjective that describes the British is ‘ opaque ’ . |
| 48 | ‘ You 're so lucky ! ’ a friend told me recently . |
| 49 | A friend took me one summer on a tour of the Andean provinces . |
| 50 | A few weeks ago a friend took me back to Dieniolen , near Bangor . |
| 51 | A friend collected me and whisked me away to a quieter part of the island . |
| 52 | A friend gave me a mini for scrap , but I immediately saw it as a hippo , so that 's what it became . |
| 53 | A friend knitted me a fabulous Nordic jumper , which immediately took on the status of security blanket . |
| 54 | This fact could not be concealed any more than I could conceal , when a friend invited me to stay with her during the holidays in Yorkshire , that my parents could n't afford the train fare . |
| 55 | A friend showed me this in the newspaper . |
| 56 | However , a few months ago , a friend showed me his latest acquisition , the all-singing-all-dancing computer which did just about everything except dive for you . |
| 57 | A friend called me up who went to the City game , and he was raving about Leeds . |
| 58 | 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 . |
| 59 | I just went from person to person and asked if they needed help when a policeman asked me to come and take a look at Johnathan . |
| 60 | A policeman told me I should pay a policeman to escort me to a taxi . ’ |