Example sentences of "[noun sg] he [verb] me [art] [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Though engrossed in picking his teeth with a match he gave me a long appraising stare before addressing me in rich cockney . |
| 2 | One night he brings me a huge bar of Old Jamaica chocolate and watches while I eat the whole lot . |
| 3 | Mr Pumblechook seemed to agree with my sister that I should be punished as much as possible , even when eating , and so for breakfast next morning he gave me a large piece of bread with very little butter , and a cup of warm water with very little milk , and insisted on checking my learning . |
| 4 | You are very kind to have thought of him and when I gave him your kiss he gave me a hundred in return to pass on to you believing I could and indeed I wish he was correct in his supposition . |
| 5 | And every year he brings me a red rose and a note with the words written : Rudolf — Flavia — always . |
| 6 | ‘ Your Grace , my father is but a merchant , and to marry me into this noble family he gave me a noble dowry , eight hundred marks . |
| 7 | It was Li Chao who first suggested I should have a Chinese name and I was both grateful and honoured when in the course of time he gave me the three-character name of Tdong Lao Fu which meant , literally , ‘ Portrait of Happy Man Climbing Mountain ’ . |