Example sentences of "[vb past] me [pos pn] [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | And er of course as I tell you , I finished when I was thirteen years old and I was on this er bottle washing stunt and o one chap as lived next door to us , back at er at Road he got me his this job on the farm . |
| 2 | ‘ Eleanor told me her late father was Principal of Brigston . |
| 3 | Told me your real feeling about … oh , about life and writing and things . ’ |
| 4 | The pater told me his former guardians had frittered away the money his father left him , and Harry told me the amount of the salary Mr Harvey pays him . |
| 5 | ‘ My Chinese counterpart told me his 11-month old daughter used to cry when he got home on Saturday nights because she did n't recognise him ! ’ |
| 6 | No doubt if I had responded to Hilda and Annie and the rest as they told me I should respond , as they all told me my true nature , my deeper nature was crying out to respond , I would be surrounded today by love and wives and children and the rest . |
| 7 | Mr Vulcan handed me his black-edged handkerchief . |
| 8 | Before he went though I reminded him I was going too and he paid me my last wages . |
| 9 | She had a room to herself , and showed me her built-in dressing-table , wardrobe , and cupboards . |
| 10 | Mrs MacKenzie proudly showed me her minuscule immaculate palace , the walls almost thicker than the passageway . |
| 11 | They showed me my new hip . |
| 12 | Friend of mine , I had a beer with in the week , showed me his new car , and he said the big irritation is it does n't centrally lock , having been used to it . |
| 13 | During one of the hold-ups in play in the Centenary Test at Lord 's in 1980 , I met a splendid young man ( then aged about 14 ) from Yorkshire , who showed me his foolscap-size autograph book , beautifully kept , with separate pages for each country and county , adorned with photographs , magazine pictures , statistics and coloured inks . |
| 14 | However , a few months ago , a friend showed me his latest acquisition , the all-singing-all-dancing computer which did just about everything except dive for you . |
| 15 | They gave each other presents at the Hanukha-Christmas festival , and the rector showed me his latest gift , a book with the inscription ‘ To my friend the rector , from his friend , the rabbi ’ . |
| 16 | Yes I could , and that 's what landed me my first part — Captain O'Hagarty , a dastardly villain in a ‘ Children 's Hour ’ serial . |
| 17 | And she kissed me , and called me her dear Blanche , and said I knew she was a good girl , and very strong , and not foolish . |
| 18 | He called me his old darling at one point . |
| 19 | She carried a pair of sun glasses in her left hand and offered me her right hand , smiling as she shook mine . |
| 20 | I would n't leave Madley if they offered me my own travelling dressing-room . |
| 21 | He offered me his spare bed for the night , but I could not stand the stench of the creek , and I wanted to make an early start on the work I had to do on Wavebreaker , so I caught the bus to McIllvanney 's boatyard . |
| 22 | Harvey scrambled up some roughly cut foot-holds , held on to a gnarled grey tree and offered me his other hand . |
| 23 | Of course ’ — he offered me his ingenuous grin — ‘ what really keeps me fit is all that prime USDA beef . ’ |
| 24 | In return she sent me her third and latest novel , A View of the Harbour : and it was then that I recognized her as the author of At Mrs Lippincote 's . |
| 25 | At the same time I wrote to Ann Kite Education Services and they sent me their basic Video Course . |
| 26 | This time I finished third and this earned me my first indoor international , with a place in the 4 × 200 metres relay team , against West Germany . |
| 27 | However , the run earned me my first individual outdoor international selection for a match against Finland at Lappeenranta . |
| 28 | It was not Diana 's day to lunch so they gave me her secluded table from which to view the proceedings . |
| 29 | It was the prostitutes in Douai and Lille and Paris who gave me my first induction into their ways and wiles . |
| 30 | He was in the top three after round one , and that gave me my first taste of a possible major win . |