Example sentences of "she [vb past] me [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | She met me with a friendly smile , shook my hand and introduced me to the class : ‘ This is Wanda , our new pupil who has come to live in our village . |
2 | The house we sat in was still in chaos , so she led me to the sunny kitchen , where we talked and drank coffee , surrounded by boxes and plants and the smell of paint . |
3 | I waited in the office for an hour before she led me into a darkened side ward . |
4 | She led me into the pink-and-green chintzy sitting-room where Harry , pale with blue shadows below the eyes , sat in an armchair with his bandaged leg elevated on a large upholstered footstool . |
5 | She led me into the front room where , defensively , she picked up the baby . |
6 | And she asked me for the fifty P . |
7 | I had no money , and she helped me over the worst times . |
8 | She was a scrawny red shorthorn with a woolly poll and she regarded me with a contemplative eye as I bent down . |
9 | She fixed me with a big smile and gave a flirtatious wink from behind her diamond encrusted specs and said : ‘ But I would be happy to invite YOU in Tony . |
10 | Lissa 's money gave out , and she told me over an international phone hook-up that she was n't interested any more . |
11 | She was interested to find out that I liked British history ; she told me about the Medieval Circle . |
12 | ‘ He 's so repressed , Eddie , ’ she told me after the first time . |
13 | ‘ She telephoned me from a public call-box somewhere . |
14 | She left her second cup of tea , and she followed me to the front door . |
15 | The Fernies got rid of her when I left and she walked me to the front gate . |
16 | We were delighted , and at a convenient interlude she took me to a favourite uncle , an Air Vice-Marshal . |
17 | Undismayed , she sent me to a first-class crammer for two terms , and Brian to another preparatory school . |
18 | I kept a set of clothes at my Mother 's house — she treated me as a contemporary , so allowed me to do as I wished — and on Friday afternoons , I 'd catch the bus from school to spend the week-end there . |
19 | Years later she reminded me of a forgotten and to me everyday kind of question . |
20 | She had such colour , such brightness , that sometimes she reminded me of the whirling mosaics , except that she was n't fragmented but unusually complete . |
21 | When Suor Eusebia saw me she greeted me with an approving smile . |
22 | Padding out as silently as she came , she left me to the early morning quiet . |