Example sentences of "[vb past] me [det] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You got me all wrong , Malamute , ’ SHe said , ‘ I do n't need that kind of support from you . |
| 2 | I think they got me this lovely velvet one . |
| 3 | so I got them , me mum got me some black ones , but they 're like , they come right down to the ankles |
| 4 | In fact it got me some funny looks because I was reading Today 's Horse on the tube and could n't help laughing out loud ! |
| 5 | He made me all wet . |
| 6 | Otley made me some hot milk and honey and helped himself to a cheese and pickle sandwich and a mug of strong coffee . |
| 7 | And , of course , my co-author John Baskett sold me many fine paintings and drawings before he retired as an art dealer , and I have the highest respect for his taste and integrity . |
| 8 | And that Hodge promised me some good cheap mince for the shepherd 's . |
| 9 | He advised me that normal meningitis , the kind that affects young kids , is much worse . |
| 10 | One of the girls at school assured me that unbaptised infants were sent not to hell , but to limbo . |
| 11 | In fact the professional golfers almost took a back seat , and it always afforded me some wry amusement when Ryder Cup golfers of repute were ignored by the spectators who were intent on getting the autograph of some star from a television soap opera . |
| 12 | Dr M M Muthiah , consultant physician , told me that existing good relations with social services and other disciplines should ensure a smooth transition to the new style of community care . |
| 13 | Even in the nuclear family , women told me that certain jobs should never be done by a man , they were not Izzat wali kam ( i.e. jobs of honour ) or they were not manly , and predictably these tasks included almost all household chores . |
| 14 | I was advised to speak initially to the region 's director of public health , who told me that geographical limitations and the pastoral duties of a vicar 's wife were not a good enough reason to train part time , and he would not support my application . |
| 15 | They told me that sexual examination is a routine part of the entry certificate procedure at British Diplomatic missions in the Indian subcontinent . |
| 16 | Tony Ruffell , chief executive of Nottinghamshire FHSA , told me that preliminary research in the county suggested that each general practitioner would encounter only a few such difficult decisions a year — perhaps five or six . |
| 17 | One , living in Newcastle on Tyne 's Salvation Army Men 's palace , told me that homeless men lost basic citizen 's rights because " laws apply to them but never for them " . |
| 18 | Inside , the elderly English upper-class proprietor told me that true Communism only survives in Albania . |
| 19 | As we walked back , Silver told me many interesting things about the ships that we passed . |
| 20 | He told me this foolish theory many times , but really he was just telling it to himself : the less of a woman be made me out to be , the less of a lover he would need to be . |
| 21 | ‘ He told me some extraordinary facts . |
| 22 | He told me some hair-raising stories of the casual , careless way in which bodies can be handled at the undertaker 's and in transit , the most common being losing the coffin on the way to the funeral because the doors have not been properly secured or the wrong name-plates having been attached , resulting in great distress to the relations of the deceased and confusion for the minister concerned , all of which made our dealings with Nigel seem positively reverential ! |
| 23 | Anyway this woman , the problematic one , stopped me in full view of everyone and handed me this folded piece of paper . |
| 24 | A call from a trusted contact informed me that senior police officers from the Royalty and Diplomatic Protection squad had been summoned to Buckingham Palace and ordered to find who leaked the story . |
| 25 | My visit in February ( a report is forthcoming ) showed me that Northern Spain is at an excellent stage of development to be used as a test bed for software . |
| 26 | I only once went into his garden , a beautifully kept one , even in war-time , when he kindly picked a bunch of tulips for me and showed me some new potatoes he was growing in pots in the greenhouse . |
| 27 | ‘ We met and he showed me some excellent photos he had taken at the crash site . |
| 28 | He had a degree of concern for the vanquished Germans , and respect for them as individuals , which taught me another valuable lesson , and which still makes his name in Wilhelmshaven one which is honoured rather than reviled . |
| 29 | My experience of working with other nationalities both at Wilhelmshaven and later , when with David Wheeler I had set up the German Fishery Protection Service in the Baltic , also taught me some fundamental lessons . |
| 30 | The international action made me aware of the necessity for international co-operation in the fight for the fundamental rights of man and reassured me that human compassion is still alive in this world . |