Example sentences of "she [vb past] me [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I a lot , cos I remember erm when Claire was I got a really formal invitation to something and I asked Claire how you were supposed to reply and she told me the exact wording of how you should reply and I just looked at her I looked at her and I said I 'm not bloody writing that . |
| 2 | She poured me a second cup of coffee . |
| 3 | The lady prioress glowered at me , shrugged , and with ill grace took me back to her own chamber across the cloister garden where she poured me the smallest goblet of wine I had ever seen . |
| 4 | Her nails black , her fingers blistered and nicotine-stained , she handed me a brown paper-bag . |
| 5 | She paid me no particular attention . |
| 6 | She showed me a half-built kennel block . |
| 7 | She showed me a large bag made of toughened brown paper with a sealing device at the mouth . |
| 8 | She showed me a little bottle before we got back on the truck . |
| 9 | Er so I 'm gon na have them but she showed me the small room , what they call the small room , well that was huge well it will be perfect for what we want . |
| 10 | Even so , I did meet one girl at Binbrook who had knitted a whole twin set from darning wool cut into short lengths , weaving all the ends together as she knitted ! — and she showed me the finished product to prove it . |
| 11 | She called me a Black bitch . |
| 12 | She called me an old snout , flipping thing is right , like thing like the noise that I 've |
| 13 | And then — she called me the Lost Prince , but supposing there is another Lost Prince ? |
| 14 | She rang me the other day and said , ‘ I 've found this marvellous place for clothes — get in the car and we 'll go . ’ |
| 15 | I was fourteen at the time , so was she ; she sent me a signed photograph which I keep in the breast pocket of my school blazer until both photograph and blazer fell apart . |
| 16 | She was polite , she gave me a small box of chocolates with a thank-you card and kissed me and shook my hand when she came for a meal on Sunday . |
| 17 | Mrs Webster was very understanding about my wanting to team up with Wendy , which was how I put it to her ; and when I left she gave me a Victorian glass inkwell and a brown ironstone plate , because I ‘ liked old things ’ . |
| 18 | Before I left , she gave me a long talk on the re-wiring of her flat and asked if we have old-fashioned fuse-boxes . |
| 19 | She gave me a long discourse regarding the horrors of the Middle Ages , concluding by saying , ‘ Then was much misery in Budapest . |
| 20 | She gave me a sharp look . |
| 21 | She gave me a weak smile and said : ‘ I might as well go to bed . |
| 22 | She gave me a weak smile and a fluttery little wave . |
| 23 | When she saw me , she gave me a haughty stare and carried on meowing . |
| 24 | One is she 's very interested in the occult , erm , she actually practices tarot card readings , and what she calls the crystal oracle , and she gave me a brief explanation , which is throwing a load of rocks up a cloth er , but I 'm not going to push me |
| 25 | She gave me a quick look , softened by a little smile . |
| 26 | I intended to ask the Baronessa Dulcibene why she had come to pay her last respects to this mysterious Englishman but she gave me a glassy look of non-recognition and moved rapidly away with her companion . |
| 27 | I queried it , I mean she gave me a precise figure of twenty thousand , and six hundred and fifty five something or other . |
| 28 | She gave me a winning smile . |
| 29 | She gave me a ninety niner . |
| 30 | Bless the lady : she gave me a large breakfast and then told me she had arranged with a friend who had a car to take me into Lochinver . |