Example sentences of "[vb past] me [art] [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The lady prioress glowered at me , shrugged , and with ill grace took me back to her own chamber across the cloister garden where she poured me the smallest goblet of wine I had ever seen . |
| 2 | Abraham bought me new clothes , gave me a new place to live , and sent me the finest food . |
| 3 | They voted me the biggest flirt and they actually printed that under my picture in the school yearbook . |
| 4 | He said he liked us and wanted us to come back , though he liked me the best … |
| 5 | Among those which gave me the greatest pleasure I remember the whole of Shakespeare , Shaw 's Androcles and the Lion , and Thornton Wilder 's Our Town . |
| 6 | ‘ Royal Gait gave me the best day of my racing career at Cheltenham last March , ’ he added . |
| 7 | ‘ Trust yourself ’ she says and gave me the best gift in the universe , one hour of total relaxation . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ And you gave me the best ! ’ |
| 9 | Maybe that does n't sound like anything , but I 'll tell you it gave me the strangest feeling I ever had . |
| 10 | There was a slight delay as she read it and then her head slowly turned in my direction and she gave me the biggest grin I 'd ever seen . |
| 11 | ‘ No one ever gave me the slightest inkling that they thought any different than me at the recording sessions and things like that . |
| 12 | Not only was Pumblechook 's elbow in my eye , but I was n't allowed to speak , and they gave me the worst pieces of meat . |
| 13 | By the time we met I had almost reached The Old Castle Inn at Old Sarum and good old Dad bought me the largest ginger beer I 've ever had . |
| 14 | ‘ Alcohol did me the greatest favour , which is that it brought me down to earth . |
| 15 | Another greatly pleasurable result of the broadcast was that it put me in touch with colleagues of his , and their wives , in the lighthouse business , several of whom wrote me the kindest letters expressing the most heart-warming comments . |
| 16 | And thus I was brought , by the gracious providence of God , to that place which had the chiefest of my labours and yielded me the greatest fruits of comfort . ’ |