Example sentences of "[vb past] me [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was a witness and so on you see and down below and the sergeant said to me , the sergeant came up and said to me , you 'll have to be careful because he said that boy , he was sitting there with his mother , poor woman , all in black and er the em the boy 's employer had got a solicitor on his behalf , you see , and I said well I can only speak through and say what happened , that 's all I can do and er , so of course when I went into the witness box this man came and er asked me all sorts of questions . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | Yeah , he got me some springs |
| 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 | He invited me several times to supper at his parents ' house . |
| 7 | Oh , I can pay cash , changed me some dollars right in the airport … ’ |
| 8 | It cost me many night-hours the more because I was reading of one thing and thinking of another . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I , I , a hairdresser told me that years ago Elaine . |
| 11 | He told me many things that were deeply fascinating . |
| 12 | and he told me many funerals used to pass |
| 13 | Charlotte told me those things , much later . |
| 14 | He never told me those things . |
| 15 | Last time we spoke you told me some lies . ’ |
| 16 | He said : ‘ Jaguar people told me some valves were already bent through test-driving . ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | He never told me any details . ’ |
| 19 | And everything he did , as he told me several times in his Tel Aviv office , was strictly according to the law . |
| 20 | I had been training throughout the winter and Andy , as promised , sneaked me some races in the summer . |
| 21 | He handed me some leaflets and magazines about the French Army , one of which was Képi Blanc , the monthly journal of the Foreign Legion . |
| 22 | I did n't really believe the , so they showed me these pictures of themselves with Mr Brando , on his Tahitian island , their arms round him . |
| 23 | 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 : |
| 24 | Sue showed me those pictures you sent , but they were so small and faraway and you were all wearing those funny oil-rig hats , I could n't really see you . |
| 25 | ‘ You taught me many things . |
| 26 | ‘ Francis taught me all kinds of stuff from books and talked to me . |
| 27 | Signe said , ‘ That man who just flew off in the aeroplane taught me some words of Latin . ’ |
| 28 | She called me all sorts of names , said I was a liar . |
| 29 | He hit me many times and my arm was red . |
| 30 | Mr Brandreth tells me : ‘ I discovered that we were at Oxford when an American reporter rang me some months ago to ask about him . |