Example sentences of "and [verb] me [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | He immediately took to his heels with is case of cigarettes and led me a merry dance away from the docks , through a council estate , finally finishing up on the perimeter track of Ipswich Airport where I was rescued in the nick of time by a squad car full of policemen just as I was about to be filled in by the burly seaman . |
2 | In the meantime , I want you all to try and build me a decent-sized castle , right ? ’ |
3 | Go and make me a nice cup of tea Mike ? |
4 | God speed you , and bring me a hopeful answer — both for England and Wales ! ’ |
5 | The taxi driver leaned through his window at one point and passed me a small scrap of paper . |
6 | They told me to stay there until they came and got me the following day — which I did n't . |
7 | I would be grateful if you could look into the matter and send me the duplicate Agreement as soon as possible , as I have your copy of the tape ( VM on IBM at 1600 bpi ) ready to despatch to you on return of the documents . |
8 | Then Sir Alfred pulled in in his Bentley and promised me a free hand to design a car that worked . |
9 | She 'd come and give me a hot water bottle . |
10 | I definitely could n't afford that , so I took it back to the Oxford Used Car Centre and erm what happened , the mechanical breakdown service — now this is where I thought they were very good — they reimbursed me all the money that I 'd paid out on those repairs plus they did the repairs and put me a new gearbox in and the car 's running perfectly . |
11 | He chuckled , produced two cardboard cups , and poured me a generous slug of the whiskey . |
12 | Eva sat down on the edge of the bed and read me The Selfish Giant , dramatizing all the characters and imitating a smug vicar at the sentimental end of the story . |
13 | She reached between her and Aline and handed me a half-finished bottle of Irn-Bru . |
14 | As Taff poured me a good measure of cider and handed me a boiled egg and a chunk of meat I described the situation at No. 4 . |
15 | As he finished he smiled and handed me the empty plate . |
16 | George opened the top lid of the tank and showed me a small plank floating on the surface . |
17 | I began to feel something sharp coming through the roof of my mouth and went to Mr Grover , who X-rayed me and showed me a pretty picture of that fateful root still there despite the hammer and chisel . |
18 | The robot finished its work and showed me a little animal . |
19 | Father Devine beckoned and showed me a huge slab of rock . |
20 | A Corporal had given me a coathanger and a broom and showed me the Foreign Legion 's way of unblocking a difficult lavatory bowl ; it involved unbending the coathanger , jamming it down the U-bend , and working it vigorously backwards and forwards . |
21 | Whenever my mother and I had visited her from Štanjel , the first thing Aunt Ema always did was to call me into the larder , which was dark and cool , and give me a large spoonful of the most delicious cream from which she used to make butter , saying in the Mavhinje dialect : ‘ Take this , beautiful , because I know that you do n't like cream in your coffee . ’ |
22 | I suppose I thought she 'd either be fantastically frosty and sit on one of those little gilt chairs with a fancy gilt mirror behind her , or else be quite fat and red-faced and come in from the stove holding a wooden spoon and give me a huge embrace smelling of garlic and stockpot . |
23 | And they 'll have my old one in and give me the extra bread for it . |
24 | Go on , God damn it , and give me the right stuff this time around . " |
25 | But Clare was ten thousand miles away , I was thinking as I woke up , while Toma made fresh coffee and cooked me a man-sized breakfast of local bacon-cum-ham and two of the island 's tiny eggs . |
26 | He was a long distance lorry driver but he knew how to dress and taught me the golden rule ‘ Do n't mix your stripes ’ . ’ |
27 | Everyone laughed , and the captain clapped me on the back and called me a good fellow . |
28 | ‘ Two sharks got into the perspex tunnel and believe me the startled look we got from Sean was not anything to do with his acting ability , ’ said Terence . |
29 | Being the only Leeds fan in a London inner city school with Alan Clarks famous speach about bring Success to Leeds in 3 Years , is causing me to go into cold shivers and giving me a pessimistic mood about the new season , I can still remember the years of telling school friends at the end of each season that we are rebuilding and that we would come up the next season . |
30 | ‘ Go and fetch me a dry shirt , then p'raps we 'll get some rest . ’ |