Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] me the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sharmi told me the story : |
| 2 | The card told me the rest . |
| 3 | Robson said yesterday : ‘ Bobby told me the atmosphere got to certain players last time . |
| 4 | Yeah Sue told me the other day that er she wo n't come out till she 's , she 's right cold . |
| 5 | When I arrived , Small showed me the bodies of two lambs killed by foxes the previous night . |
| 6 | Monsieur Saulnier informed me the other day that it was not usual in this part of Normandy to have so many mosquitoes . |
| 7 | Nor were the books that Edward showed me the kind of thing I would normally have read — not , at least , as anything more than a casual browse among the dustier nooks of human eccentricity . |
| 8 | Kathleen offered me the use of her office telephone and so , one morning , I settled down to make some enquiries . |
| 9 | The Brazilian agent saw me the next morning . |
| 10 | Beatrix sent me the letters and that 's all . |
| 11 | Her entry gave me the chance to ignore Ernest and present her with Victor 's note myself , which I did . |
| 12 | D.C.L. degree by Oxford University and the College gave me the honour of welcoming her with flowers ’ . |
| 13 | But I have never forgotten advice that my research adviser gave me the first time that I was pursuing a dead end : ‘ It is important to recognise when to quit . ’ |
| 14 | Dennis gave me the vague smile of complicity that men exchange in lavatorial situations . |
| 15 | Blyth saved me the trouble of suggesting a game of football by doing it himself . |
| 16 | Rex gave me the glance . |
| 17 | And last night Doyle told me the truth behind the bizarre and evil campaign . |
| 18 | Liese told me the two centres of the chi — the life force — were located an inch or two above and below the navel . |
| 19 | Recently my local baker told me the stoneground organic loaf I was buying would be the last . |
| 20 | ‘ I realised I had to stop putting it in though , ’ Kaye admits , ‘ when a friend of one of my sons told me the house looked more and more like a church every time he came round . ’ |
| 21 | Mum told me the facts of life when I was twelve . |
| 22 | The warden 's wife at the Beinn Eighe Nature Reserve told me the no doubt apocryphal tale of a traveller in Northern Canada laboriously taking down phonetic notes from an Inuit pointing to various landmarks in his territory . |
| 23 | Ginny lent me The King Must Die . |
| 24 | ‘ It 's a fine idea , but Mrs. Olinton told me the other day that Mr. Olinton would n't lend any of his buildings to Scouts or Guides or Brownies or Cubs . |
| 25 | So we know , we should and remember of course that in the book Freud chooses two examples as Joy told me the church and the army and these are just examples and of course Freud chooses them partly because they 're very big groups so they in some ways they er exemplify the principles he 's talking about because clearly in a small group like this you could say well look , what is going on is really I mean we all have , we all know each other and it 's a face-to-face group and really what happens here is an of the dynamics group and I think it is actually . |
| 26 | He said : ‘ Alan rang me the other night and told me to bring my hosepipe because he 's on fire at the moment . |
| 27 | Cos Dr offered me the the other day , a nurse to do my leg . |
| 28 | ‘ All three judges gave me the decision and having watched the video , I reckon I lost only two rounds — the fourth and the tenth . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ All credit to Gavin gave me the ball in the end , with a little persuasion . |
| 30 | ‘ I do n't mind telling you , Doctor , Mrs Carrow gave me the creeps sometimes when I took on looking after Miss Celia . |