Example sentences of "a [noun] [vb past] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember a hansom pipped me to a good prospect , in Threadneedle Street . |
| 2 | A rheumatologist told me that his aim was to enable his patients to go on living their particular chosen lifestyle with the least possible hindrance and pain . |
| 3 | A correspondent told me of her visit to a hospital mortuary to identify her 20-year-old daughter , who had been killed in a car crash . |
| 4 | A correspondent sent me the programme for the Annual Social of the Female Caseroom at the Ballantyne Press , held in Swan 's Tea Rooms in April 1906 . |
| 5 | Just take a look got me little list knocking round . |
| 6 | YOU recently mentioned con tricks well , I was waiting at Lime Street Station for my mother when a well-dressed man with a briefcase asked me for £1 . |
| 7 | A boat returned me to the little coral landing-strip ; Friendly Islands Airways took me down to Tongatapu ; and within half a day I was settled in a small hotel in Auckland , waiting for the weekly Cathay Pacific jet home . |
| 8 | THE THOUGHT OF ASCENDING BEN NEVIS ON A SATURDAY FILLED ME WITH dread . |
| 9 | A child in a doorway saw me coming through the olives and called , and then the entire population of the tiny hamlet appeared — four women and half a dozen children , unmistakably islanders . |
| 10 | A minibus took me through the early morning light to Makindye , in the southern suburbs of the city , where the first Uganda National Women 's Festival of Music and Drama was in full swing in a large church hall . |
| 11 | Certain movements such as boys kicking a football gave me ideas tor the choreography . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ A girlfriend made me a wonderful big , bright red jumper which I liked so much that I asked her to knit me another . |
| 13 | A girlfriend rang me up the other day . |
| 14 | A bookmaker paid Damien Gould to take some lead from my weight cloth while a journalist distracted me . ’ |
| 15 | Ann Smith , who was at junior school in Haltwhistle , Northumberland , remembers : ‘ I know I felt really sad but the thought of a Coronation cheered me up a little bit until I found out it would not be held until the following year . |
| 16 | I was near the Bridge of the Spaniards when a car overtook me and stopped , the door was opened and a very friendly fellow at the wheel invited me in . |
| 17 | After it was all over there was another strange and thrilling event when a car whisked me to the News at Ten studios where I was interviewed by someone in Leeds . |
| 18 | My first book , When Sixpence Was A Fortune , has reached many corners of the world — a lady told me her sister read some of the poems to an audience of exiled Scots in New Zealand and half the folk there ‘ wiz greetin' ’ ! |
| 19 | When I was twelve , and I got baptized , erm a lady gave me a little text and it was from Joshua chapter one and it was verse nine and it says have I not commanded you be strong and courageous do not be terrified , do not be discouraged for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go and that 's a verse that I 've been able to remember and to thank God for on so many different occasions all through my training as a doctor and it 's , all the promises in the bible are absolutely true and you can rely on them because it 's not a book written by men but it 's a book written by God . |
| 20 | I nearly lost my life again , when a lady picked me up to put me in the boat . |
| 21 | And I was sort of juggling , I did n't realize how much I was doing until one day shortly after mother 's death , a lady stopped me and she said has something happened to your mother ? |
| 22 | I decided , for example , that if a parent told me they had dreamt about having a ‘ Down 's baby ’ before the birth — in the medical literature , this is a classic after-the-event self-deception — they had in fact had such a dream . |
| 23 | Chewing the fat before this meeting in that shit-hole of a place some berks will tiresomely insist on dignifying as a ‘ foyer ’ — frenchified bloody nonsense — a parent quizzed me on my attitude towards the teaching of English . |
| 24 | ‘ The very next evening a bailiff rang me up and , in a cool and calm way , he told me my home was about to be repossessed , ’ said a tearful Mrs Pratley last night . |
| 25 | I got a bottle of gin a bloke bought me three years ago . |
| 26 | I was walkin' 'ome to me Connie this afternoon , and a bloke stopped me an' spoke to me . |
| 27 | My wound was probed and bandaged , and then the fool of a medico bled me , evidently under the impression that it would calm a supposed fever . |
| 28 | It had its own inquiry desk , and a girl took me to Lennis at once . |
| 29 | As before , a guard accompanied me to the barracks ; but this time , on the way back , we met two officers : it was exactly what I had hoped for . |
| 30 | ‘ If a sport offered me 12 hours free , I would have to say I have nowhere to put it , ’ Bromley admits . |