Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] me the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you ever feel uncomfortable , please tell me or show me the stop sigh . |
| 2 | Then they had their way and asked me the usual series of childish but charmingly eager questions about myself , about London , about England . |
| 3 | Ward stirred and asked me the time in a voice heavy with sleep . |
| 4 | Go on , Emma snatch that and read me the Gilbert and Sullivan clue . |
| 5 | And bring me the rum . |
| 6 | ‘ My hosts have driven me down the avenue and given me the figures . |
| 7 | He nodded , paid the deposit , again in US dollars , and passed me the keys . |
| 8 | And passed me the shovel . |
| 9 | They told me to stay there until they came and got me the following day — which I did n't . |
| 10 | I would be grateful if you could look into the matter and send me the duplicate Agreement as soon as possible , as I have your copy of the tape ( VM on IBM at 1600 bpi ) ready to despatch to you on return of the documents . |
| 11 | Please accept my application and enrol me as a member of The Literary Guild and send me the introductory books whose numbers I have printed in the boxes provided . |
| 12 | Please accept my application and enrol me into Quality Paperbacks Direct , and send me the five introductory books whose numbers I have printed in the boxes provided . |
| 13 | Be a pal , Kate , and slip me the copy of Gay News you hide under your desk because I do n't allow it in the library , talk about work , Kate , discuss how we spend £5000 on economics books for the university libraries , tell me about how you 're stopping the students thieving my favourite art books , but please for God 's sake , Kate , do n't be difficult , do n't talk about imperialism and marxism and feminism , I 've heard it all before and said it all myself , twenty years ago before I had a wife and children to support . |
| 14 | I was just as confused as that day she came in and told me the news . |
| 15 | ‘ Mr Lloyd George came … and informed me that he is able to form an administration and told me the proposed names of his colleagues , ’ the King wrote in his diary . |
| 16 | Tonight Lorenzo gave me the doge 's ring , and told me the history of this lovely old house . |
| 17 | Gerry offered to be my guide , and show me the sites of the county . |
| 18 | ‘ Cut the crap and show me the pics , ’ he said . |
| 19 | If they want to take it all away in the end and match me up with that slimy halfwit , why then take me up to the mountain and show me the world ? |
| 20 | Thereafter it 's no more than a recurrent talking-point or a way of talking down , with all this I do n't feel I really know you and What 's really going on in there ? and Show me the real you . |
| 21 | I asked erm Ian yesterday to try and give me the dates so I , I 'm , I expect him to come back to me today with some idea on that . |
| 22 | Eva sat down on the edge of the bed and read me The Selfish Giant , dramatizing all the characters and imitating a smug vicar at the sentimental end of the story . |
| 23 | She unlocked the car herself and handed me the keys without comment . |
| 24 | How Alan kept his temper I will never know , but he quietly sorted out the mess , mounted a huge Loch Ordie , rowed out from the shore again and handed me the fly rod : ‘ Here , Bruce , you fish , I 'll work the dap and mind the oars . ’ |
| 25 | She opened the envelope and handed me the forms which would be needed if the senator undertook the repairs to Masquerade . |
| 26 | If he came to me now and knelt and handed me the poker , I could n't hit him . |
| 27 | As he finished he smiled and handed me the empty plate . |
| 28 | ‘ Rats , ’ I told him , but he opened the cover on the drain outside my back door and showed me the trap to stop rats climbing up . |
| 29 | He took me back to the past and showed me the future . |
| 30 | Frustrated but secretly delighted that I had maybe caught him out with shoddy workmanship until an old fellow from Bernera stopped to give me a lift on the way past Carlaway and showed me the right ones , just before the main stones of Callanish . |