Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [noun prp] [noun] [verb] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally , my old friend Alistair Sampson set me up with a cheerful office over his shop in the Brompton Road , where I am gathering stock and beginning life again . |
| 2 | Do you mean that that bloody fool Hector McGillivray fobbed me off with a boat that 's — that 's been- ? ’ |
| 3 | Chief executive Arno Bohn told me that securing skilled labour for its Stuttgart plant was no problem . |
| 4 | United chief executive Martin Edwards assured me last week — after the first enquiry for Hirst — that he would not talk to Wednesday again . |
| 5 | In my babyhood , he had asked the great Australian centre Dave Brown to let me be photographed with an enormous stuffed lion Brown had brought back from a Kangaroo tour of Great Britain . |
| 6 | In recent times I have been able to go down to the hostel , where my good friend Richard Megson gives me the opportunity to wash in lovely hot water . |
| 7 | At Dillons , assistant manager Graham Wilson told me with quiet confidence that ‘ at customer service we are good ’ . |
| 8 | Irate pensioner Kevin Higgins told me : ‘ Just like Maxwell , he tried to play the good guy . |
| 9 | Announcing a third year of increased profits , managing director Anthony Mackintosh tells me : ‘ We plan to have a new front entrance , so in the evening it 's not quite so like Twickenham . ’ |
| 10 | Deputy managing director Paul Scrimshaw told me : ‘ One of our remedies with hotels that inflate prices is to remove them from our listings . ’ |
| 11 | My next-door neighbour Elsie Dobson told me Clara Orchard took the baby out in the fog and the child got a terrible cough . |
| 12 | Senior South African official Ali Bacher told me last night : ‘ We are concerned about Allan , but he is entitled to earn a living wherever he can . |
| 13 | The idea of a one-woman tribute was conceived five years ago , when larger-than-life director Bryan Izzard asked me to contribute to a Channel Four programme on the monologue called The Eye Of The Little Yellow Dog , starring , amongst others , the late Leonard Rossiter , Cilla Black , Alec McCowen , Diane Langton , Anita Harris and Ronald Lacey . |