Example sentences of "[noun] and [verb] me [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the porters nips out every day at five thirty to the off-licence and gets me a cold one . ’ |
| 2 | The employee behind the check in desk gave me a huge smile and welcomed me to the airport , gave me my seat reservation card and wished me a good journey . |
| 3 | And thus I was brought , by the gracious providence of God , to that place which had the chiefest of my labours and yielded me the greatest fruits of comfort . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Mr Lloyd George came … and informed me that he is able to form an administration and told me the proposed names of his colleagues , ’ the King wrote in his diary . |
| 5 | She cocked her head on one side and gave me a long scrutiny , almost as though she had never seen me before . |
| 6 | Just as we were about to leave , Frank Dick called me to one side and gave me a blistering reprimand . |
| 7 | Some grain of self-preserving sense must have penetrated Rickie 's skull , for he suddenly dropped on to his heels and offered me a placatory grin . |
| 8 | The robot finished its work and showed me a little animal . |
| 9 | He straightens up his mac and gives me a real serious look . |
| 10 | The retort earned a laugh and gave me a split second to stop my heart from racing . |
| 11 | Please accept my application and enrol me as a member of The Literary Guild and send me the introductory books whose numbers I have printed in the boxes provided . |
| 12 | Being the only Leeds fan in a London inner city school with Alan Clarks famous speach about bring Success to Leeds in 3 Years , is causing me to go into cold shivers and giving me a pessimistic mood about the new season , I can still remember the years of telling school friends at the end of each season that we are rebuilding and that we would come up the next season . |
| 13 | Frustrated but secretly delighted that I had maybe caught him out with shoddy workmanship until an old fellow from Bernera stopped to give me a lift on the way past Carlaway and showed me the right ones , just before the main stones of Callanish . |
| 14 | I spent most of it attempting to get close enough to him so he could spike my other shin and give me a matching pair . |
| 15 | Can you advise me about the pros and cons and tell me the best way to retain their copper finish ? |
| 16 | The taxi driver leaned through his window at one point and passed me a small scrap of paper . |
| 17 | ‘ However I wanted to race in Ireland and I was frustrated when the Lisburn club came back to me a few days after I had signed up for the French meeting and gave me the full details . |
| 18 | And when he would arrive from Barnard Castle with a heavy load of shopping on a bicycle and give me a nice round bun he would buy as a special treat from a shop called Guy 's . |
| 19 | He turned his head and gave me a direct look . |
| 20 | You never know who might mistake Armstrong for a real taxi and offer me a few quid as a friendly gesture for giving them a lift . |
| 21 | I suppose I thought she 'd either be fantastically frosty and sit on one of those little gilt chairs with a fancy gilt mirror behind her , or else be quite fat and red-faced and come in from the stove holding a wooden spoon and give me a huge embrace smelling of garlic and stockpot . |
| 22 | Everyone laughed , and the captain clapped me on the back and called me a good fellow . |
| 23 | Monty looked down his glasses and offered me a few censorious words . |
| 24 | Then Sir Alfred pulled in in his Bentley and promised me a free hand to design a car that worked . |
| 25 | He read my amusement and gave me a twisted grin . |
| 26 | ‘ It 's alright for some ’ , they say , as if my fairy godmother has miraculously waved her magic wand and offered me a real life Martini advert on a plate . |
| 27 | Thanks also to the kind young woman with two young children who helped me on the train and gave me an orange drink . |
| 28 | If I put a two there , I 'll have an extra three characters and gives me a full stop and two zeros . |
| 29 | ‘ Two sharks got into the perspex tunnel and believe me the startled look we got from Sean was not anything to do with his acting ability , ’ said Terence . |
| 30 | She reached between her and Aline and handed me a half-finished bottle of Irn-Bru . |