Example sentences of "[vb past] me some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My old , dear and intimate friend Princess Marie Louise , who furnishing the Queen 's Dolls ' House , asked me some months ago to let twelve poems of mine be copied small to form one volume in the library ; and I selected the twelve shortest and simplest and least likely to fatigue the attention of dolls or the illustrious House of Hanover . ’ |
| 2 | Yeah , he got me some springs |
| 3 | My American agent once got me some stuff placed in Reader 's Digest . ’ |
| 4 | There was a pile of really filthy-looking blankets on the bed , they got me some sheets and a towel , and I managed to get an extra pillow because of my asthma . |
| 5 | ‘ You promised me some cigarettes , Mrs Dawson . ’ |
| 6 | Oh , I can pay cash , changed me some dollars right in the airport … ’ |
| 7 | I have read my Foucault , I am aware of the conceptual shortcomings of a timeless , essentialist homosexual identity , I might even want to take the step of putting quotations marks around the word ‘ gay ’ — but the man who queerbashed me some years ago did not put quotation marks around his fists . |
| 8 | He told me some firm did all the furniture choosing and decorating . |
| 9 | And she told me some character called Steve produced a gun when Newman , the foreign correspondent , interrupted their tete-a-tete . |
| 10 | Last time we spoke you told me some lies . ’ |
| 11 | He said : ‘ Jaguar people told me some valves were already bent through test-driving . ’ |
| 12 | One of my assets in journalism , as Fred Workman told me some years later , was the habit of creating stories and features by developing an idea and then taking the necessary steps to work it into an acceptable feature . |
| 13 | I mean in terms of population I think I somebody did er Strathclyde regional council used to be a client of mine when I was with Three M er well you know a client of my rep up here but er and they told me some time that I think a huge percentage of the whole of Scotland 's population |
| 14 | I must admit that this situation caused me some anxiety at an earlier stage , but no point was made about this in the Press either before or after the Election . |
| 15 | A possible clue to this unusual verbal spate of self-revelation , which caused me some surprise , was , as we now know , that he was at that time engaged in writing The Family Reunion . |
| 16 | This news , combined with his presence , caused me some confusion . |
| 17 | I had been training throughout the winter and Andy , as promised , sneaked me some races in the summer . |
| 18 | ‘ I think it was quite a victory , looking at ‘ The Aztecs ’ , that they allowed me some leeway there : having me chosen as the wife of the Warrior , which more or less said , look she 's marriageable now . |
| 19 | I mean as I said when I was filling in the questionnaire I was thinking well this , really this is my preference and you know I 'd much rather be in a job that allowed me some flexibility . |
| 20 | He handed me some leaflets and magazines about the French Army , one of which was Képi Blanc , the monthly journal of the Foreign Legion . |
| 21 | This is all in the working week for Tim Renwick , who spared me some time just before he started work on ‘ Tom Jones — The Right Time ’ … |
| 22 | I once asked Alec Motyer , who was the wise and saintly principal of my theological college , how to hear the guidance of God , and he showed me some verses from Isaiah 50:4 , 5 which he called a deep place of guidance in the Bible : |
| 23 | Signe said , ‘ That man who just flew off in the aeroplane taught me some words of Latin . ’ |
| 24 | Mr Brandreth tells me : ‘ I discovered that we were at Oxford when an American reporter rang me some months ago to ask about him . |
| 25 | I gave my orders and they led me to a private room and brought me some writing paper and a pen . |
| 26 | You 'll find enclosed the original photograph you brought me some time ago — the one I took the enlargement from . |
| 27 | One day Sapt brought me some news — he had found out where the King was . |
| 28 | She brought me some oranges from my orchard but I could n't eat them . |
| 29 | ‘ Come on , lazybones , it 's nearly dinner-time , ’ Otley scolded when he brought me some tea up . |
| 30 | I found that if I imbibed the medicinal stimulant too quickly , the pace of creative work ( and the typing ) slowed down , and it took me some weeks of careful experimentation to find the most efficacious ration . |