Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] me [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A youth tried to sell me a Socialist Worker and seemed confused when I told him that in my experience the words were diametrically opposed . |
| 2 | He tried to sell me a Pottz picture . |
| 3 | Koo Stark was out there in the powder room and seemed to identify with my predicament ; indeed she promised to procure me a long thin-necked vessel and return . |
| 4 | He promised to give me a silver coin every month for doing this . |
| 5 | As we ate , Dr Jaffery promised to give me a ring the following morning to confirm that the festival was going to be celebrated . |
| 6 | ‘ I expect it 's Vera — she promised to give me a recipe for salmon mousse . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He only mentioned his wife to tell me he 'd just bought her something new to wear and he tried to give me the impression his brother-in-law was something of a poor fish because he could n't make ends meet . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ She tried to spin me a yarn about her husband going back to Poland on holiday in 1950 and being killed in a car crash . |
| 10 | He promised to send me a card . |
| 11 | He promised to send me a fucking picture postcard . |
| 12 | He promised to send me a list , but I told him not to bother . |
| 13 | Before he went , Connors promised to get me a rundown on the police activity in the Fourth Precinct following the incident at the back of the Regal Arms . |
| 14 | And I think they tried to drug me the night before I rode Shine On at York . ’ |
| 15 | I saw this ad on the back of a matchbox which promised to show me the way to achieve success without having to go through college . |
| 16 | He promised to bring me a few notes from which I could prepare a draft but he never did . ’ |
| 17 | He said he was n't when he came to see me a couple of years back . |
| 18 | She came to see me a year later , total loss of weight , total short of breath , hardly , she 's struggling to keep body and soul together . |
| 19 | He came to see me the other evening . |
| 20 | She came to see me the first night I was home , and we sat on the verandah , rather tongue-tied after such a long time , saying stupid things like : " Did you have a good trip ? " |
| 21 | But that oil , it seemed to help me a lot . |
| 22 | But that oil , it seemed to help me a lot . |
| 23 | ‘ Why she seemed to dislike me the moment she set eyes on me . |
| 24 | This frightened me but seemed to make me a hero in the eyes of the Dutch who broke out into a fever of winks and jerked-up thumbs and V-signs all round me . |
| 25 | My wife telephoned to give me the news which had been heard by our daughter listening to the radio . |
| 26 | The first was to Duncan the Drunken in Barking who agreed to do me a weekend deal on a Transit in exchange for a loan of Armstrong . |
| 27 | And my pounding heart served to give me a feeling of impending doom . |
| 28 | He even threatened to send me a bill for his time . ’ |
| 29 | He began to tell me the difficulties of his life at home , and finally he told me that he had tried more than once to find a home with another brother or sister , but they had persuaded him to return to Cis and Elfed . |
| 30 | Neither could I conceal that although I wrote to my parents once a week ( a school rule ) they scarcely ever wrote to me , and failed to send me the necessary supplies of toothpaste , stockings , etc. , so that I was always having to borrow from other girls ( strictly against the rules ) and getting into trouble as a result . |