Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] me [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | St John approved of my keenness to work , and promised to find me some paid employment . |
| 2 | and so he frequently tried conducting me that way . |
| 3 | The driver of a passenger lorry stopped to give me some bread and carrots . |
| 4 | ‘ You promised to tell me all about it . |
| 5 | Certainly , it was quite a strenuous walk — though I can say it failed to cause me any real difficulty — the path rising in zigzags up the hillside for a hundred yards or so . |
| 6 | ‘ Did Capron ask you straight whether you 'd given me any help ? ’ |
| 7 | Erm but he 'd given me this number , Glen about Portakabins . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | ‘ He came to see me several times and even brought Gordon [ Jackson ] along too . |
| 10 | He came to see me some weeks later explaining that he had failed to get a job . |
| 11 | She wrote as if she 'd hated me all my life . ’ |
| 12 | I remembered another story they 'd told me that day of the first snowfall : it was about a hunt several years ago , on a day like this . |
| 13 | I wonder if — I wish you 'd told me that , Alan . |
| 14 | ‘ It would have been useful if you 'd told me all this at the beginning . ’ |
| 15 | If you 'd told me all those years ago , I would have grown up with the idea of another mother , perhaps miles away , perhaps just around the corner . |
| 16 | I only wish you 'd told me this earlier . |
| 17 | If you 'd told me this in the make-up room when you came to have your hair cut , you 'd have saved yourself a needless journey . |
| 18 | She said , ‘ I wish he 'd told me this himself . ’ |
| 19 | " You certainly gave him your version of how your aunt came to leave me this property , " Matthew said bitterly . |
| 20 | Maybe I 'd set him at ease by saying ‘ g'day ’ , but he looked like he 'd known me all his eight years , and leant quite steadily on me for the drive to Robert 's parents ' cottage , where we arranged photos . |
| 21 | I told you she 'd sent me some cast-offs and they 're much too grand for me to wear . |
| 22 | Kāli came to bring me some of the cooked meat , chewing some herself . |
| 23 | As time went on and Basil began showing me all of these things , it gradually came over me that it would be nice for the American people to see that English art was much more variegated and lively than just these big portraits . |
| 24 | In the following example , the head is the first five syllables : Bill called to give me those |
| 25 | At first they asked me if I wanted my mum to go out but I said No , but when they started asking me all those sorts of questions they asked me again and I said Yes . |
| 26 | He knew I 'd be interested in the reward money before he started telling me all the details , otherwise he 'd have kept most of it to himself . |
| 27 | Coupled to an external VHF aerial the 5.0W setting is capable of giving a useful range equal to that of many panel-mounted sets , but on test in the cockpit it failed to offer me much real advantage over the lower-powered units when all were used with the standard screw-on flexible antennas as supplied . |
| 28 | Well Geoff did buy me some sherry glasses he says oh , you give me two |
| 29 | she did show me that and then she 's got it like straps on it where she can take it off but er oh she |
| 30 | Yes , in one five , erm they 're practising notes from Eynsham it does happen to be in Cherwell ward and not North ward , erm there is a booklet out about health and housing in Cutteslowe , and I wondered what the connection between , you know , not being on this committee , but these health action areas , and what in fact is happening in housing , because the director did assure me that other wards were going to be treated to the same erm treatment . |