Example sentences of "[verb] me something " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Madame said she 'd lend me something , ’ Ellie said , hardly able to believe her ears . |
| 2 | ‘ Bring me something to drink , ’ he commanded . |
| 3 | Er and she said I 'll ring you ag I said oh dear someone now coming to the door , she said , never mind I 'll ring you on Saturday , so I said alright and er and she lives at Wyndham , Norfolk , my husband 's niece and erm , you see , and then there 's the other one and she said , auntie you 're always so cheerful , I said , well I try to be cheerful because like everybody else I get a little depressed sometimes because , you see , I have no sisters and brothers , I have three elderly cousins who live away and who I , who I see , one was here a fortnight ago er er er my cousin and his wife er , you see , it will be on a Wednesday , a fortnight today , no Thursday , yes , you see , a fortnight ago and they said , we 'll come again an we 've always bought you a bunch of daffodils so we shall come again when the daffodils are and er and they bring me over bits and pieces because er she was a cook and they bring me something nice to eat |
| 4 | Anyway , Jeff had now given me something new — something really important to me . |
| 5 | It 's definitely given me something to aim for . ’ |
| 6 | You have given me something I 'd never be able to buy . ’ |
| 7 | Now you have given me something permanent to remember you by . |
| 8 | It has given me something to live for . |
| 9 | Good have you given me something for the ? |
| 10 | ‘ Well , you 've given me something new to think about tonight , ’ whispers Riva , unlatching the outside door . |
| 11 | But he said : ‘ We 've had talks and Kevin Keegan has given me something to think about . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm going to say something to you now and I want you to promise me something , for I 'm not long for this side of the curtain . ’ |
| 13 | Because I 'm specially pleased with you I 'll let you buy me something to eat from your winnings and you can tell me what Constable Aplin was saying to you just before I came along . ’ |
| 14 | But if you do buy me something with style ! |
| 15 | cos she just took them off and then and now now she owes me something posh . |
| 16 | Yeah , I no , something else want , Richard promised me something special today . |
| 17 | Oh , I suppose I could have written off and got a new length of rubber , or got old Cameron in the ironmonger 's shop to find me something , but it would never feel right again . |
| 18 | Er , can you just sort of promise me something ? |
| 19 | ROBBIE To see if you had anything , if you could have lent me something . |
| 20 | He ended up costing me something good more like ! |
| 21 | Show me something that 's not possible . |
| 22 | Show me something that is erm arm 's length away from , from your right shoulder . |
| 23 | Okay , show me something else that 's an arm 's length from That 's your right shoulder is n't it . |
| 24 | Right , okay , that , show me something else that 's arm 's length from your right shoulder . |
| 25 | So if I said show me something that 's arm 's length from your right shoulder north , or up , or west or some way , okay , or on a bearing of thirty seven degrees |
| 26 | On the train as we rode past the spines of Manhattan to the flat rooftops of Brooklyn , he told me something of his travels in north America , indeed , he had been much further west than Jersey City , even beyond Chicago . |
| 27 | But he told me something . |
| 28 | At that first meeting he told me something about himself . |
| 29 | I never knew Griffith himself but Sir Ben Lockspeiser , who acted as Griffith 's assistant at this time , told me something about the circumstances under which the work was done . |
| 30 | After asking how I was getting on he told me something of the worries of a Party leader in days when there are no deep political convictions to divide men of good will . |