Example sentences of "have [verb] me [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | No yes Mr Singe is dedicated to the fewcher of Athletes Whaddon and to proove it has prezented me with a BLANK czech for £53–24p only , which is at my dispozal for strainthning the squid . |
2 | I for one value the friendship that he has given me in the eight and a half years that I have been a Member of the House , despite the fact that we are in different parties and disagree on many issues . |
3 | It has carried me from the comfortable Salisbury suburb where a kind Scottish family have made me a home , to a rough Bulawayo farmstead . |
4 | He has educated me in the best sense of the word and I have trusted him as I think I would trust no one else of my own sex . |
5 | An offshore worker has presented me with a detailed file containing his experiences as a safety representative . |
6 | I am pleased to have the opportunity to raise this subject which has interested me for a long time . |
7 | ‘ Madam , I must tell you , ’ I replied , ‘ that since he found me , my master has used me as an easy way of making money for himself . |
8 | ‘ Ah yes , ’ Leon turned to Mrs Yaxlee , ‘ your George has told me of the great days . |
9 | The minister was told plainly that ‘ the election of a member of parliament , and other publick services , has drawn me into a great deall of expence , and no small trouble … ’ |
10 | Years ago I used to think this was a fun sport but the reason for thinking this has escaped me for the last 2 weeks . |
11 | As for their laying the birch on my pocket , I compute that my support of Lewis and Brzeska has cost me at the lowest estimate about £20 per year , from one source alone since that regrettable occurrence , since I dared to discern a great sculptor and a great painter in the midst of England 's artistic desolaton . |
12 | Iii case this book should be read by some fundamentalist searching for straws to prop up his prejudices , let me state categorically that all my experience ( such as it is ) has led me to an unqualified acceptance of evolution by natural selection as a sufficient explanation for what I have seen in the fossil record . |
13 | ‘ I 've seen him myself , or else hearing about it has put me in a special state of mind , and all the other factors have come up right , atmospheric conditions , combinations of light and dark , what you like , and made me create what I believed I was seeing . |
14 | I feel so comfortable with your mother and the whole time here has changed me for the better . ’ |
15 | Their one hundred and fifty ton heavy life crane would have coped with that job easily enough but I hastily declined his offer which , apart from any other consideration would have placed me at a slight disadvantage . |
16 | You can tell him from me that if he wants me to stay in this urban backwater of yours he 'll have to provide me with an interesting occupation — and I do n't mean modelling your dress . |
17 | He could have dropped me off the first time ! |
18 | I only wish Daddy could have seen me in the black lace dress . |
19 | Someone should have told me about the local MIND and the National Schizophrenia Fellowship and what they could offer . |
20 | At another time and place she could have helped me in no uncertain manner . |
21 | ‘ A very large beetle ’ , she will say , as if she would n't have bothered me about a smaller one ; or ‘ The steps were slippery ’ ; or merely ( which strikes me as cryptic to the point of tautology ) , ‘ Something nasty ’ . |
22 | ‘ It 's worse for them because they blame themselves for having provided me with the financial means to take a plebeian job . ’ |
23 | They 'd never have allowed me on a scheduled flight , and this is one party I would n't miss . |
24 | She would have passed me by a few feet , perhaps not noticing me . |
25 | I have n't a clue about the layout of this house , so you 're going to have to point me in the right direction ! ’ |
26 | However , my secretary , ex-pupil Peter Vroomking , was to have provided me with a typed list , which has not materialised … on the other hand , Peter has recently been discovering himself as a human being … and I am sure those of you who are still here will wish to join me in congratulating … could somebody stop that door banging ? |
27 | ‘ Oh , I did that , ’ she told him flatly , ‘ but if that was your intention which I doubt , do n't you think it might have been kinder to have left me with a few illusions ? ’ |
28 | This last item did much to restore the confidence that seemed to have deserted me in the previous few months . |
29 | My wife , Daphne , volunteered to stay and man — sorry , woman — the ramparts at home ; thus proving , not for the first time , she was far too bright to have married me in the first place . |
30 | ‘ You should 've sent me to a decent school , ’ said Camille . |