Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] me [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Until I can persuade her to unbind me — or make contact with Mephistco and convince someone back at base to forgive me my trespasses just long enough to do an override — I am confined inside the plane of reflected light . |
| 2 | ‘ The course owes me nothing , ’ he said . |
| 3 | The barman passed me my Jim Beam . |
| 4 | He said I do n't know what the car owes me he said can you come back tomorrow about half past ten ? |
| 5 | I married Clive because Mummy told me he was suitable for me , and I had n't had a letter from Felipe for a long time … |
| 6 | A year ago , Norfolk Library 's local history department told me they had nothing about Edis — perhaps the most important woman photographer in East Anglia . |
| 7 | My mind told me she could n't . |
| 8 | Another Land Rover main agent told me I need part number GTR III — it has a short stem and a white top . |
| 9 | Fortunately the aircraft maintained a perfect climbing attitude while I tried to sort it out , I reached for the elevator trim wheel ; one glance told me it was in the normal position . |
| 10 | It was 11.3Oam and the crick in the back of my neck told me it was time to give up trying to read ‘ War and Peace ’ lying on a sunbed under the July Spanish sun . |
| 11 | She let herself into the comfort and glow of the solar to hear her father 's querulous voice complaining , in terms in which surely he himself did not believe : ‘ My mind misdoubts me we have done wrong to have any part in this . |
| 12 | ‘ Then mummy tells me I ca n't go out and I 'll wheel the bike back into the garage . ’ |
| 13 | The position at the moment is that the defendant tells me he would like to acquire the premises because erm a low criticism has , was made of the premises as being suitable for the carry on of the doctors surgery in partner , a doctor 's surgery in partnership because no doubt the space and other matters , er the defendant tells me that erm they are perfectly suitable for as it were a sole petitioner to carry on his practice from them and that is why he would like to acquire it . |
| 14 | I mean , if I were to sell my house now supposing somebody came galloping in along before Christmas ooh ooh I want the house on the first of Feb and they 'd come and they 'd see the house and they say yes I want it , want it , want it and it was plain that they were going to want it and we started to talk money , as soon as we 'd got the solid block of money I want one O two you er estate agent tells me I can get ninety seven between ninety five and ninety seven say they offer me ninety six |
| 15 | Bruno , while coy about the details of the offer , said : ‘ Rock gave me his telephone number and I gave him mine . |
| 16 | If you want to transfer up to 4 players , just send me an E-mail telling me which ones you wish to sell & buy . |
| 17 | I got Idan on this tape telling me he loves me . |
| 18 | For some reason this inspires the barman to tell me there were a lot of good boxers in the 1980s because they were hungry . |
| 19 | And I said , Okay look , if I 'm gon na say something to anybody , I want to have a look show me what you 're talking about . |
| 20 | My heart told me she would n't . |
| 21 | The computer told me its name . |
| 22 | I told her that what she said was a load of bollocks , and one thing led to another and my mum told me she was n't allowing me to take Natasha with me . |
| 23 | So Mum told me she was going to leave me a bit more than she had originally planned . |
| 24 | ‘ Then my mum told me it was terrible . ’ |
| 25 | My mum told me it was nude ! |
| 26 | ‘ When Slaughter told me what had transpired , I had the lass brought here to my lodgings , and had a physician take a look at her . ’ |
| 27 | The rusty taxi-cab clattered down the spine of the city and the driver told me what was wrong with Cuba , and we went past the silent skyscrapers , kosher pizzerias , glass-fronted banks , bagel factories , polish gymnasiums with belt-vibrators for rent , pharmacies selling love-potions and roach-killers , and all-night supermarkets where frail young men were buying canned rattlesnake . |
| 28 | The flush pipes from high-level cisterns need less room than the low-level types , and the extension pipe at the back of the loo told me it had been moved forward a few inches . |
| 29 | ‘ My Chinese counterpart told me his 11-month old daughter used to cry when he got home on Saturday nights because she did n't recognise him ! ’ |
| 30 | The management rep told me he 'd even heard whispers of sympathetic action among the statistical clerks . |