Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [verb] me the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had someone come to see me the other week from the R S P C A because they said this cat was held forty foot in the air |
| 2 | On the album I make the comment that somebody had asked me the same question and I said , ‘ Yep , my left hand 's doing good , right hand 's doing alright , my mind 's as sharp as a tack . |
| 3 | I recently helped one of the Costain girls on some research and she has sent me the final document , which I suspect will one day be of invaluable professional use , so it was nice she remembered . |
| 4 | She did n't realise that she 'd given me the greatest gift of all . |
| 5 | As we 're roping up , who should arrive to tie on but the lad who 'd joined me the previous day . |
| 6 | She came to see me the first night I was home , and we sat on the verandah , rather tongue-tied after such a long time , saying stupid things like : " Did you have a good trip ? " |
| 7 | ‘ Are you going to give me the macho caveman act ? |
| 8 | Thanks very much Mark , you 've given me the hardest part . |
| 9 | Now you 've given me the same answer for two different inputs , but that 's okay . |
| 10 | But I was not sure that she had told me the whole truth . |
| 11 | With horror I suddenly recognized one of them — it was the man in our village pub who had given me the two pound notes ! and strangely enough , during the journey I heard the prisoners talking about it . |
| 12 | If you choose me then you have to tell me the whole truth — who your accomplice is . |
| 13 | They 've given me the main facts . |
| 14 | ‘ If I 've got my pants on in the second scene , I think they 've sent me the wrong script , ’ he says . |
| 15 | He 'd tried , the first year , rooming with the others , and had found they still came up to him all the time with their queries — ‘ They 've sent me the wrong costume for Gypsy Baron . |
| 16 | He came to see me the other evening . |
| 17 | wardens and whatever , we do n't take the double yellow lines half seriously enough , erm and I think parking generally is , is something we 're very bad at and I 'm an occasional sinner in this respect too , but it , it did strike me the other day , erm paying a fifteen pound fine for parking on a single yellow line on a Sunday afternoon but I had n't noticed a sign that said I should n't , erm paying that fifteen pound fine in other words not having paid the six pound instant fine , I remember thinking that , really there 's , there was no way of talking back , and I had in fact attempted an explanation as to why I 'd done it , and explained the reasons why I thought this really was very overlookable on the side of the law , erm I do n't suppose they paid much attention to it , I do n't imagine giving it a moment 's thought at all . |
| 18 | And my elder brother , he had told me the same thing — ‘ Babi , you are not listening to us so we are not responsible for anything . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ It does worry me the longer it goes on without one . |
| 20 | It 's lent me the black one now . |
| 21 | Because he 's given me the greatest gift of friendship . |
| 22 | But he 's told me the main months . |