Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [pron] [verb] me [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The woman who give me this |
| 2 | That was my auntie and that was the l the woman who gave me that tea set I were telling you about . |
| 3 | This is the nature with which I desperately attune , knowing no other , with which I painfully harmonise , fearful always of the loss of the love which keeps me that way . |
| 4 | The magician who taught me this commented ‘ I saw this done with chopsticks and patter about a Chinese system of numerals . |
| 5 | ‘ You 're not as old as the man who had me first . ’ |
| 6 | A woman with a vacuum cleaner whose tube I fell over , the man who sold me withered flowers , even the couple who let their dog foul outside the gate were all candidates for a warm hug and a deluge of good wishes . |
| 7 | I could kiss the man who told me that , two years of happiness he 's given me . |
| 8 | I have read my Foucault , I am aware of the conceptual shortcomings of a timeless , essentialist homosexual identity , I might even want to take the step of putting quotations marks around the word ‘ gay ’ — but the man who queerbashed me some years ago did not put quotation marks around his fists . |
| 9 | P : ‘ Not if they 're like the ones you gave me last week ! ’ |
| 10 | This therefore will be my last Sunday with you and so I take this opportunity to thank you again for all your kindnesses to me and for the way you made me welcome when I arrived 5 years ago ( does n't time fly ! ) . |
| 11 | If I 'd stayed any longer with the villain who sold me those QE2 boots , I 'd have walked from the shop with a case of tent pegs and a canoe . |
| 12 | At least five tragic scenarios had gone through my head by the time he told me that Dad had died . |
| 13 | That 's only half the time it took me last time . |
| 14 | ‘ That 's not the impression you gave me last weekend at Casa Sciorto , Caroline . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ No , but after what you told me I have a suspicion you kissed me that night at Ib 's Club deliberately in an effort to convince her you 'd found someone else to replace her in your heart and in your bed . ’ |
| 16 | Marie helps me with my money , and every week she gives me some so I can buy plants and stuff for my room . |
| 17 | To my ears , much of the talk was about death , a subject which made me nervous . |
| 18 | I enclose a letter which sent me sometime ago . |
| 19 | As it stood , it consisted of a multi-volume jumble of vers libre , written over many years , some in the form of letters , especially to her mother — ‘ if I sent her a letter she sent me some money — so I kept on writing ’ — listing the men she 'd known . |
| 20 | When you became a Minister you appointed me Managing Director . |
| 21 | So I live with a constant and uncomely reminder of folly and failure , and no doubt it does me good . |
| 22 | And no doubt she thinks me strange beyond belief I am too tall , not handsome by this world 's standards , and I do n't know how to pay the pretty compliments a young woman expects . |
| 23 | The bus terminus is finally reached and I choose to exit through a 4 inch square window and slide down the caked mud of the tin side , my coat brushing sufficient mud off one area that reveals an emblem which informs me that " Glasgow Flourishes " ! |
| 24 | Then I met an Arab who gave me 200 francs and my ambition was never to come back to England again . |
| 25 | I 've also got an Explorer which cost me four hundred bucks — mind you , there 's no case with that . |