Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] me the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | It was De Gaulle who asked me the dumb question in the van-his condescension brought him down to what he imagined was my level . |
| 2 | I 'm just sorry the whole thing happened and the man who must be embarrassed about this most of all is sponsor Matt Laverty who lent me the bike on Thursday night at practice . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ This came from the man who found me the assassin , ’ he went on . |
| 4 | It was Nanny who told me the rotten news . |
| 5 | I called the local council who told me the wasps were best left until the end of the season when they would follow their queen and find somewhere else to live . |
| 6 | At one station we were stopped for several hours alongside a troop train on which I discovered the Reverend R.H.L. Slater , now enrolled as an army chaplain , who told me the comforting news that my wife and three children had got away from Myitkyina a day or two earlier . |
| 7 | Then , a bit later , I got your landlady who told me the bad news . |
| 8 | It was a friend of Francis 's who told me the facts , one woman whom I do remember , though not her face . |
| 9 | ‘ It was an old Pole called Poniatowski , now in exile in Paris , who told me the awful , ghastly , horrifying details . |
| 10 | A lot of discussion went on between J Walter Thompson and my agent 's assistant , who told me the idea was to vary the commercials considerably so as not to bore the general public . |
| 11 | To start with I went along to visit local parent , Mrs Audrey Durrant , who told me the main problem she faces as the mother of a ten year old dyslexic boy . |
| 12 | The project scientist who sent me the disappointed and sceptical account of all this said that there were shrieks from the store room , but not of success . |
| 13 | I still have n't heard back from the young lady who sent me the Valentine card ; did you really mean it ? |
| 14 | And it was she who brought me the first evening paper . |
| 15 | I would accept that since I saw a report only the other day about such a case ( the funeral director involved had a son in my class who brought me the file ) the embalmer had used 8 oz per 80 oz of a very good fluid , but had not put in any co or pre injection fluids and did not mix any other fluids , and he put in 4 × 80 oz bottles . |
| 16 | ‘ Remember , Alec , the doctor in London who gave me the job did say Koraloona was a living laboratory for the treatment of polio . |
| 17 | The doctor who gave me the medication asked me , ‘ Why did you do it ? ’ and I could n't answer because I did n't know . |
| 18 | I ca n't recall who gave me the information . |
| 19 | It was Virginia who gave me the clue . |
| 20 | Shine On 's owner was the man who had the big gamble on Pendero , and Jack Butler , the bookie , was the one who slipped me the drug . |
| 21 | If I analyse the bosses I 've worked for , the ones who irritated me the most were the ones who were indecisive and who constantly asked for more information just to delay making a decision . |
| 22 | Another greatly pleasurable result of the broadcast was that it put me in touch with colleagues of his , and their wives , in the lighthouse business , several of whom wrote me the kindest letters expressing the most heart-warming comments . |