Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [verb] me [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was bending my brains to think of a way of introducing Brian Harley into the conversation when the television monitor in the corner of the tent gave me the ideal opportunity . |
| 2 | He said : ‘ The board gave me a free hand with the retained list and backed me all the way . |
| 3 | Mother Francis would n't have the money to buy me a new frock . ’ |
| 4 | After take-off , a miracle I might have thought in other circumstances , the stewardess handed me a sickly sweet fruit drink and I tried to peer through the tight lattice of scratch marks on the window at the Andes , at the snow , at the jungle . |
| 5 | The photographer shot the usual roll of pictures ; the President gave me a firm , friendly handshake . |
| 6 | The cop gave me a hard look and moved off . |
| 7 | One agent in North 's employ remembered being over at CIA headquarters one day when a call came in to him from North , ‘ and everybody in the room gave me a dirty look . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I used to love listening to Elvis records , which helped me pick up the lingo , and now everyone in the business calls me the Rocking Singh . |
| 9 | To my surprise , the singer gave me a friendly nod before throwing his head back and tackling the last verses . |
| 10 | When I was a kid , in Hull , my father and mother took me to Hessle to have tea with his boss , and I remember Mother telling me that she had stayed up half the night making me a new sailor suit and saying , ‘ Behave yourself , Bill . |
| 11 | Then the King asked me a large number of questions . |
| 12 | That 's west unless we 're off course , in which case it 's night ; the King gave me the same as you , the King gave you the same as me : the King never gave me the letter , the King gave you the letter , we do n't know what 's in the letter ; we take Hamlet to the English King , it depending on when we get there who he is , and we hand over the letter , which may or may not have something in it to keep us going , and if not , we are finished and at a loose end , if they have loose ends . |
| 13 | In a third shop I was moderately interested in one particular model until the assistant gave me a global price for a computer , printer and so on . |
| 14 | but just being on the bench gives me the tiniest little bit of hope … |
| 15 | Raising a hand to put an end to these blows the woman gave me a warm smile . |
| 16 | I just stay there , squatting down and the woman gives me a funny look and tugs the little girl 's hand and they walk round me and go off down the road . |
| 17 | The colonel gave me a friendly pat on the shoulder , and we made for the outside world again . |
| 18 | I thought , in my anxious state , that the orderly gave me a funny look as he left me there . |
| 19 | The mirror showed me a youngish man , perhaps a little thin and no more than average height — whatever average is in a galaxy overflowing with exters and mutant humans . |
| 20 | Training in the choir gave me a fine knowledge of the Psalms , though I must say that none of us choir boys looked forward to the fifteenth evening of the month when the set psalm had no less than seventy-three verses . |
| 21 | The Sheriff asked me the same question and I gave him the same answer as I have you . ’ |
| 22 | I remember being unable to connect those grainy breasts and pubic hair with anything in my own life — flesh , for instance — but the image gave me a mysterious frisson which I mistakenly took for sex . |
| 23 | The fellow gave me a world-weary look and shook his head . |
| 24 | The Minister told me the other week that compulsory competitive tendering can produce savings of 8 per cent . |
| 25 | So , with flight planning filed , mostly mentally , I sat back and waited for the weather to give me a perfect day . |