Example sentences of "[noun] [coord] [vb past] me [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't believe she heard me because she yawned , handed me the key and told me to hang it round my neck so that no one could take it from me . |
| 2 | On the first day Odd-Knut gave me a tobacco tin of worms and told me to keep them warm , and they have travelled the Arctic inside my second layer of clothing ever since , even sharing my sleeping bag at night-time . |
| 3 | It was later that evening that he took a white muslin dress out of the bag with which he had returned from Paris and asked me to wear it as a nightdress . |
| 4 | Redundancy and a wrecked career as a forgotten man seemed inevitable until right out of the blue Graham Taylor threw me a lifeline and persuaded me to join him at Aston Villa . |
| 5 | ‘ After The White Lion won they gave me £6,000 and told me to get them another , so I sold them three shares in Rambo 's Hall — who I 'd bought cheaply in a job lot as a yearling — for £1,500 each . |
| 6 | Sergeant-Chef Gibeau leant over , tapped me on the forefinger with a table knife and told me to do them up again . |
| 7 | The assistant changed the battery and told me to monitor it for a week for any problems . |
| 8 | All eight doctors signed a letter on 13 December to the Secretary of State for Health and asked me to pass it on . |
| 9 | As I handed my music to the organist , I shook so badly he bought me a brandy and made me drink it . |
| 10 | She was driving from Frankfurt and phoned me to say she was leaving late . |
| 11 | When I was political editor of the Daily Mirror , Maxwell took a shine to this hat and asked me to get him one identical to it . |
| 12 | One day , while we were roaming around junk shops and the Paperback Exchange , Changez took my arm and forced me to face him , which was never a pleasant sight . |