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 . ’
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