Example sentences of "[vb past] me his [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I taught for a term at a crammer half a mile from my home , and instead of passing lazy days with charming children whose actively hatted mothers would smile , condescend and yet flirt during some endless pollen-spattered sports day , I spent my time with the son of the local bookmaker ( he lent me his bike : I crashed it ) and the daughter of the suburb 's solicitor . |
| 2 | Immediately he lent me his support , his judgement and helped me find a publisher , putting me in touch with Jan Martens and the Fonds Mercator which publish admirable art books . |
| 3 | Anyway , he 's alright by me cos he lent me his Porsche . |
| 4 | ‘ One of the bosses lent me his Jaguar Sovereign XJ6 for a week when my car broke down , ’ said Pete . |
| 5 | He sat beside me and lent me his shoulder as a back-rest . |
| 6 | ‘ And he lent me his boat for a family outing . |
| 7 | Finally I saw shapes of valleys , hills , crags , the white flash of waterfalls and then after Bill Robins lent me his binoculars , even houses , mostly thatched with palms or with roofs of red corrugated iron , the trademark of Polynesia , with the occasional roof of startling white . |
| 8 | Tremayne lent me his Volvo to go to the boatyard in the morning , reminding me before I set off that it was the day of the awards dinner at which he was to be honoured . |
| 9 | There was a lot to do , and Mr. Andrew made me his secretary . |
| 10 | And if I 'm friendly towards you in future , you 'll remind yourself , ‘ That man nearly made me his mistress — I must be ice-cold to him , ’ and ice-cold is what you 'll be . ’ |
| 11 | Twice he passed me his pipe to cut the ends of my suture and on one occasion I found myself trying in the dim light to thread the silk through his reaming tool . |
| 12 | Waaagh ! ’ — Jack leaned forward and passed me his handkerchief . |
| 13 | He told me his motives were purely patriotic ; he loved his country and was worried about its future . |
| 14 | He told me his plan was to murder his hated guest that night , with the weapon he had shown me . |
| 15 | I thought he was conning me when he told me his plan . |
| 16 | During the course of that regression he told me his name , his trade ( he was a cloth merchant ) and the fact that he lived and worked in the Bristol area . |
| 17 | He was not a bad looker , I thought , and shook hands as he told me his name was Freddy . |
| 18 | But if , as in the present case , all he can say is : ‘ I saw him once in Peckham High Street and someone told me his name was Joseph Fergus ’ then there is obviously a weak link in the case : how is it to be shown that the accused is the same man that was pointed out to the witness as Fergus ' ? |
| 19 | He told me his name was Abel Magwitch , and after breakfast he lit his pipe and held out his hands for mine again . |
| 20 | ‘ The man told me his name , ’ said the driver . |
| 21 | She told me his name , I do n't know . |
| 22 | So he told me his name , I think it 's something like Mr . |
| 23 | The expenditure of public money on this , yet another television service , has been criticized in some quarters , but the Governor told me his decision was based on the fact , as he saw it , of NTV 's pro-Federal bias . |
| 24 | Well he come into garage the other day and told me his wife had kicked him out ! |
| 25 | He told me his wife had kicked him out ! |
| 26 | Watched by an Italianate studio owner , Tony Verrechia , he told me his story . |
| 27 | We relaxed into another large bottle of Cusqueño beer as Barry told me his story . |
| 28 | She said : ‘ Just before Gary was killed , he told me his girlfriend was pregnant . |
| 29 | Their origins stem from France where old Mr Fauchon years ago told me his forebears were Huguenots , who fled their country from a small place bearing the family name of Fauchonville . |
| 30 | When I first met Richard , he told me his grandfather had been ‘ a parson ’ . |