Example sentences of "[verb] me [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was an unexpected rest and it has taught me many things , like patience . ’ |
| 2 | ABOVE As time went by , more and more people started bringing me injured birds to look after . |
| 3 | These words of wisdom remind me of a student who came to see me many years ago after the long vacation during which she had begun her undergraduate dissertation ( with another tutor who had left the university that summer , I must emphasize ) . |
| 4 | He came to see me some weeks later explaining that he had failed to get a job . |
| 5 | ‘ He came to see me several times and even brought Gordon [ Jackson ] along too . |
| 6 | Could you lend me two fingers ? |
| 7 | ‘ Could you spare me five minutes before the lectures start ? ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Surely you can spare me ten minutes — say a quarter of an hour ? ’ |
| 9 | As I have described , she had consulted me many years back over a libel matter which I had discouraged her — unsuccessfully — from pursuing , with calamitous financial results ; but I was able to give her a little assistance in another matter which to some small extent repaired the damage arising from the first disaster . |
| 10 | On the way to my next appointment with Denis King , a piano and some Joyce Grenfell songs , I stopped at a nearby theatre to smile winsomely at the box office boys in the hope that they 'd recognize me , in spite of my Titian disguise , and sell me some tickets for their sell-out play . |
| 11 | ‘ Lady Lavinia , I beg of you , do n't make me any gifts ! |
| 12 | So erm then er oh he asked me other questions . |
| 13 | They asked me personal questions that I could not even repeat here today . |
| 14 | Er , not in the decision , I I spoke to Mr and he asked me certain questions . |
| 15 | I was a witness and so on you see and down below and the sergeant said to me , the sergeant came up and said to me , you 'll have to be careful because he said that boy , he was sitting there with his mother , poor woman , all in black and er the em the boy 's employer had got a solicitor on his behalf , you see , and I said well I can only speak through and say what happened , that 's all I can do and er , so of course when I went into the witness box this man came and er asked me all sorts of questions . |
| 16 | My old , dear and intimate friend Princess Marie Louise , who furnishing the Queen 's Dolls ' House , asked me some months ago to let twelve poems of mine be copied small to form one volume in the library ; and I selected the twelve shortest and simplest and least likely to fatigue the attention of dolls or the illustrious House of Hanover . ’ |
| 17 | The British official behind his high desk asked me numerous questions which I did n't understand . |
| 18 | She beckoned to the waiter and said without asking Wexford first , ‘ Bring me two coffees . ’ |
| 19 | I miss it , I missed it on Sunday , they bring me yorkshire puddings in |
| 20 | ‘ Many parents bring me rebellious teenagers with the plea , ‘ Please change her , doctor ! ' ’ |
| 21 | Bring me some books . " |
| 22 | Run home at once , and bring me some gloves and a fan . |
| 23 | Wattling , bring me those saucers there . ’ |
| 24 | She , and she got me five dishcloths and five dusters . |
| 25 | So he got me last nights , we 're gon na have to go tomorrow so we 'll have to go tonight now , got ta tell ! |
| 26 | Yeah , he got me some springs |
| 27 | There was a pile of really filthy-looking blankets on the bed , they got me some sheets and a towel , and I managed to get an extra pillow because of my asthma . |
| 28 | I 'm probably blowing it way out of proportion , but everything upsets me these days . |
| 29 | The sport has also given me many friends . |
| 30 | ‘ Richard has also given me many opportunities and without him and Peter my life as a freelance jockey would be made just that little bit more difficult . ’ |