Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [verb] me [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ There 's an inside to things , ’ he explained , ‘ and print only gave me the outside .
2 Trade & Travel kindly gave me a fez ‘ for my daughter ’ , which resulted in a complaint from one colleague that if I was going to invent one offspring why not a few more so that all the staff could have fezzes .
3 Sapt also brought me a letter .
4 They keep on calling me a celebrity , but I can not really accept that .
5 Well Hayden says to me , if you go either give me a ring , he said , and I .
6 You do not tell me the depth of your pond , but shallow ponds ( if yours is indeed shallow ) are much more prone to algal infestation because they warm up so much more quickly and have such a large surface area in relation to volume .
7 that 's a funny thing on the phone when he said about paying I said a hundred a six pound complete so I said and do n't give me a cheque cos I do n't want one !
8 There 's some people standing round watching me , but they do n't give me a hand .
9 What if she do n't give me a loan of it , what if she tells me , you know , ‘ eff off , ’ or something , and by the time you come to the door , he 'll go like that , ‘ Just keep the lawnmower ’ , you know what I mean .
10 Fans of the band 's music do n't particularly get anything extra from the rag-arsed studio orphan ‘ Do n't Give Me No Lip , Child ’ or the ‘ Live At Trondheim ’ CD which ends , in tribute to ‘ Metallic KO ’ , with the sounds of dumped instruments and broken bottles .
11 He do n't give me the position .
12 Do n't tell me a mistake ?
13 Do n't tell me the work wo n't be piling up . ’
14 No it ai n't do n't tell me the answer
15 Do n't tell me the doctor does n't have sherry and stuff regularly on tap in the house . ’
16 ‘ No , you do n't owe me a thing . ’
17 ‘ You do n't owe me a penny .
18 ‘ And if you do n't like me the way I am now , then that 's very easily remedied .
19 ‘ So do n't call me a bastard . ’
20 He said do n't call me a liar !
21 Do n't call me a charlatan , you miserable old creep , ’ Otley would explode .
22 If you do then tell me the truth .
23 I think you 've just cost me a fortune today .
24 So you 're feeling relaxed and comfortable and good because you 're telling me , you know , what a great tennis player I am and I really enjoy it , you 've just given me a couple of names that I 'll either make a note of or I 'll say that 's interesting cos I actually deal with Joe on a business relationship anyway erm maybe we could meet some other people from the tennis club , self employed people , professional people such as yourself , who might be interested in looking at financial planning but today I 'm more interested in talking about you Bill , erm we 'll come back to them a bit later if I may so let's press on .
25 Flaubert was delighted with the story : ‘ Do you know , Lapierre , you 've just given me the subject of a novel , the counterpart of my Bovary , a Bovary of high society .
26 Now this year what I 've done is actually going to see the form teacher and look at the classes and they 've actually given me a lot more information this year and hopefully , keep our fingers crossed , the classes are very varied and we have good , we have middling , and we have the not so good and we 've tried to keep those like that .
27 And er again , when we get to year fifteen , I get one or two clients who say to me well actually the Norwich have just sent me a bonus record through and I 've actually got nine thousand in the pot already , I think I 'll pay the mortgage off .
28 a number of my staff have repeatedly asked me the question , what is a project engineer ?
29 ‘ But you have n't given me an answer . ’
30 ‘ You have n't told me a thing , if you do n't mind my saying so . ’
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