Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] me the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ 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 . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | ‘ After the match , the chairman came in and showed me the other results and the league placings . |
4 | I met a man in the glen who seemed to know every spot , and gave me the Gaelic names of all the corries . |
5 | ‘ 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 . |
6 | 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 . ’ |