Example sentences of "[vb past] me any [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If those winters caused me any anxiety it was only in the nets where Graham and I , as the two overseas professionals in a team of mainly part-timers with jobs to do in midweek , spent a lot of time practising together . |
| 2 | I just love sitting and reading and doing NOTHING … a huge man came here the other day and practically THREATENED me if I would n't write my life story … offered me any money I asked for … but thank God I am well off now . |
| 3 | Mum had a habit , whenever she sent me any distance on an errand , of insisting that I had clean bloomers on , ‘ in case yer get knocked down by a 'orse ’ , which was why I was scared of them . |
| 4 | The forest was dark and low upon me , and only the gunfire gave me any sense of direction . |
| 5 | ‘ I met a parson once that was good to me , but he never gave me any treacle tart , just a kind message of 'ope . |
| 6 | I saw my mother once a day at dinner time and I saw my father three or four times a week , but they never gave me any love . |
| 7 | But to do him justice , the Prime Minister never gave me any impression that he wanted me to succeed him … . |
| 8 | Neither the General nor Bill gave me any hint of lolly . ’ |
| 9 | With remarks like ‘ Ah well , that never did me any harm ; I have gone through worse ’ , he would brush aside his colleagues ' explorations as irrelevant , yet hint at having himself suffered as a child . |
| 10 | While I 'm standing up to my thighs in water trying to kill a lot of fish that never did me any harm , somebody in this town takes it into his head to rub out Jack Mahoney . ’ |
| 11 | He never did me any harm . ’ |