Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] me the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm supposed to think that you 've just given me the OK . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | They have just given me the reasons why , which , as I see it , I am not at liberty to reveal at this stage . |
| 4 | I 've been using RapidCad for a month or so and It 's not given me the slightest problem . |
| 5 | No Alan 's not given me the go ahead really to , to do . |
| 6 | Stephen had just granted me the barony , and I decided ‘ t was time I had a wife . |
| 7 | I was so grateful that somebody has finally told me the reason why I was miscarrying . ’ |
| 8 | Perhaps , they said , he was married or engaged and had not told me the truth about himself . |
| 9 | Erm you know it cos you 've just told me the |
| 10 | He looked across at me with watery , beseeching eyes as if he had just told me the entire , intolerable story of his life . |
| 11 | ‘ He 's already told me the story and I 've read Claudia 's account . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Which is why the lady has already promised me the pleasure of her company tonight . |
| 13 | He had already sent me the Strachey book , The Theory and Practice of Marxism , and Spender 's , the original title of which was The Approach to Communism , seemed to me to go with it very well . |
| 14 | Lacking travel warrants , I could not have come home on leave had my father not sent me the fare . ) |
| 15 | I did n't much like it , mice and such like have always given me the creeps , but I did feel sorry for it being shut up . |
| 16 | It 's always interested me the name you know . |
| 17 | That 's okay , she 's also given me the right words to use to put it through urgently , okay , cos I mean you , I know you have n't exchanged yet , but you want to do that fairly quickly . |
| 18 | a number of my staff have repeatedly asked me the question , what is a project engineer ? |
| 19 | I left the FO feeling bruised and battered ; they had really given me the works . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | You wrote and told me to ring — presumably you were too mean to ring me — but you had n't given me the number . |
| 22 | You have n't given me the bits missing from the Mirror . |
| 23 | You have n't given me the bits missing from the Mirror . |
| 24 | If you 'd known at the beginning that I knew your parents you would n't have even given me the time of day . |
| 25 | ‘ The van I used to use to transport my bikes has come to the end of its day , and Bill Doig has very kindly offered me the use of the station van if it is not required for company duties . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ You have n't told me the truth . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ You still have n't told me the purpose of this call , ’ Alyssia pointed out , deciding to put an end to this surface veneer of politeness . |
| 28 | Mr. Green has again promised me the pencilled sketches of Dove 's Nest . |
| 29 | Fate , thought Charlotte , gazing innocently back into his admiring , devoted , humiliated and furious face , has certainly given me the upper hand of you , my boy ! |