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 . ’
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