Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] me [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | and only stuck me on the payroll |
| 2 | ‘ The sessions not only pointed me in the right direction for obtaining information , they taught me a lot about the sort of questions I should be asking . ’ |
| 3 | It just caught me by the scruff of the neck and practically hammered my guts out . |
| 4 | It was the violent jolting of our wheels on the sleepers that finally woke me to the realisation that Ward had switched from the road to the railway line itself and was bumping his way along the track towards the gaping mouth of a tunnel . |
| 5 | Sitting in Casey 's office with a group of people sometime in the autumn of 1985 , John McMahon , his deputy , suddenly said : ‘ You wo n't believe what Bud McFarlane just told me at the White House . ’ |
| 6 | An experience at Scout camp one summer , finally alerted me to the dangers that could befall a young lad if he was n't too careful . |
| 7 | I had a marvellous ride all the way round and he just took me into the lead . |
| 8 | Just dragged me into the building , threw me down on the floor , made a lot of noise and left . ’ |
| 9 | And my people , the men and maidservants who came running , he confined as you see , each in a glass bottle , and finally closed me into the glass coffin in which you found me . |
| 10 | Kenneth More told me of the unfortunate happenings on the set of The Mercenaries which he made in 1966 in Jamaica with Hollywood star ( though Australian born ) Rod Taylor and American football star Jim Brown . |
| 11 | This is not what I want to hear from the man who once shook me to the core with a string of incendiary albums . |
| 12 | In fact , we did go down there for a week to explore the possibilities , and I admitted that it was n't what it was and that the rosy glow that still suffused me at the very name was probably nostalgia for my touring days , when it was the most prestigious of all the dates . |
| 13 | One year , I was so proud of Dad , who always took me to the Fair on the Tuesday evening , because he won a coconut which I carried home feeling most superior . |
| 14 | Talking about him with the others , I did find out that several other people had had the same experience with him as me ; that his lovemaking was done in silence , that he never said a word ( in fact with me he hardly looked me in the eye either , just stared at his own hands as he moved them over my body , not stroking so much as seizing and kneading me , holding me down too ) ; but then later in the night you would wake to hear him talking to himself , lying there fast asleep ( O always asked the men he fucked to stay with him all night long , always ) , fast asleep and talking out loud in the night , talking in a fast , furious , hushed , hollow voice . |
| 15 | For five hours he did n't once open his mouth to offer advice or even give an opinion and , when he checked the takings at the end of the day , although we were two shillings and fivepence light from a usual Saturday , he still handed over the sixpenny piece he always gave me at the end of the week . |
| 16 | I walked through the big , wide classroom door , and into the hall which always reminded me of the giant 's room in ‘ Jack and the Beanstalk ’ . |
| 17 | There was a period of incredibly intense excitement which , I think , probably sustained me for the next five or ten years . |
| 18 | They probably imagined me as the gentleman flasher in the park ! ’ |
| 19 | Nearly drove me up the wall ! |
| 20 | Bill Riffkind , a close friend of Sam 's , later told me of the fight . |
| 21 | He later told me of the adventure he had walking round the high netting accompanied by an airman on the other side of the wire . |
| 22 | He also showed me round the House of Commons . |
| 23 | I was put to work with him on the same bench and he not only taught me toolmaking , he also taught me about the trade union movement and the kind of society he wanted to see . ’ |
| 24 | His first day in 1924 watching his county , Sussex , convinced him that there is no greater moment than a big hit : ‘ As I walked into the ground a ball came bouncing off the Town Hall roof and nearly hit me on the head . |
| 25 | ‘ They nearly pulled me through the bars , ’ he said . |
| 26 | Lenka adjusted her fur coat , blew on her hands , opened it up and let rip : the noise nearly blew me off the balcony , a stupendous megalomaniac combination of centuries of Bach fugues and the Incredible Dr Phibes . |
| 27 | you see , and he was , he , he probably brought me into the world , you see but , er you see , and Mrs erm , you see , she was married to Doctor and he used to come up to see my father and we had a different door then door being that 's got a yale lock on now but he he 'd say , hello Frank , you know always so you got , oh he was so nice and it was such a shame that he died |
| 28 | But I ran for them and won most everything , so it was good fun , and it also kept me off the streets , which pleased my parents . |
| 29 | It also reminded me of the importance of Popper 's definition of scientific statements as those that are , in principle , not confirmable , but refutable ( see Popper , 1963 , Chapter 1 ) . |
| 30 | Gradually I drifted apart from Beth and Ida , but I am always grateful to them because they also introduced me to the other great interest in their lives — ballet . |