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

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1 I was so grateful that somebody has finally told me the reason why I was miscarrying . ’
2 Jane Daly has just given me a copy of the new Capital Equipment RTP forms .
3 Unfortunately I am obliged to terminate at this stage , because someone has just passed me a note saying that the band has to depart at 11 pm , and it is now 10.30 .
4 ‘ Which is why the lady has already promised me the pleasure of her company tonight .
5 Ken has often told me the story of how Jackie came to drive single-seaters : how he had lost a driver in F3 ( Teddy Mayer 's brother Timmy ) and how John Cooper had reported to him ( belatedly , Ken says , because he 'd already spotted Jackie ) that there was some tiny Scot going around whom he absolutely must sign .
6 Christian Aid has agreed to my taking three months ' unpaid leave , and the English-Speaking Union of the Commonwealth has kindly awarded me a bursary to cover costs of travel .
7 ‘ My son has n't called me an asshole yet , ’ said Jim .
8 then Sandy has n't given me a time but I think I 'd suggested to him between six and seven I think people like that they do n't have to go home and
9 And then I , I was at Doctor 's but he er he has n't sent me a letter .
10 Mrs Gracie gave me some ; he has never paid me a penny .
11 You 'd only seen me a couple of times , and then you were n't exactly falling over yourself to speak to me ! ’ she spat back .
12 Ah no he was , he , he would n't sit on his chair cos he 'd just called me an arsehole and I goes oh sit down Greg !
13 In fact I broadcast that material , but I cut it into three programmes , and I , I cut in the questions I would have asked if he 'd actually given me a chance to ask them .
14 If you 'd known at the beginning that I knew your parents you would n't have even given me the time of day .
15 Perhaps , they said , he was married or engaged and had not told me the truth about himself .
16 I think you 've just cost me a fortune today .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 Stephen had just granted me the barony , and I decided ‘ t was time I had a wife .
20 I was neither Jew nor English nor white , or even a proper Indian or a proper Pakistani ; but my travels through Europe and stay in the USA and my near acceptance there as a living entity capable of suffering pain and enjoying pleasure had temporarily given me a sort of quasi-human status , further aggravated by those willing to be my sexual partners ; I had become spoilt and pampered .
21 It was likely that Alison had n't given me a thought for weeks , and that she had had half a dozen more affaires .
22 You wrote and told me to ring — presumably you were too mean to ring me — but you had n't given me the number .
23 and because she was in Mustique and had n't bought me a birthday present she made sure that there were two Gardenia plants at the party that night she bought me .
24 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 .
25 As though you were some kind , caring person , who had never caused me a moment 's upset ?
26 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 .
27 I 'm going tomorrow morning there anyway cos Roy 's just given me a call , they 've got some problems with screw support bearings locking up , but er I 'll go over there some time
28 Nanda 's just told me a secret , she said .
29 No , no , he 's just bought me a car now
30 a number of my staff have repeatedly asked me the question , what is a project engineer ?
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