Example sentences of "[vb pp] me the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fate , thought Charlotte , gazing innocently back into his admiring , devoted , humiliated and furious face , has certainly given me the upper hand of you , my boy ! |
| 2 | That 's okay , she 's also given me the right words to use to put it through urgently , okay , cos I mean you , I know you have n't exchanged yet , but you want to do that fairly quickly . |
| 3 | Expressing his pleasure at working with TAG , said , ‘ My experience over the last 20 years has given me the scientific and technical background which the modern catering industry requires . |
| 4 | They 've given me the main facts . |
| 5 | I waved at the receptionist , who had obviously forgotten about me , as I left , saying : ‘ Sorry , the despatcher 's given me the wrong street . ’ |
| 6 | I 'm supposed to think that you 've just given me the OK . ’ |
| 7 | As we 're roping up , who should arrive to tie on but the lad who 'd joined me the previous day . |
| 8 | Alan rung me the other day . |
| 9 | It 's lent me the black one now . |
| 10 | In preparing my speech I recalled ( as the reader also may ) the occasion during my first watch in Tartar when the first lieutenant had shown me the various instruments on the bridge , and that when I asked why one had a canvas cover , he had said , ‘ Oh , that 's the Mountbatten station-keeping gear , and we keep it covered because the captain finds it quite useless . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ An my experience at Imperial had shown me the growing need in this country to find free-standing sites on the outskirts of towns , away from parking problems and inner city violence . |
| 12 | He looked across at me with watery , beseeching eyes as if he had just told me the entire , intolerable story of his life . |
| 13 | But he 's told me the main months . |
| 14 | But I was not sure that she had told me the whole truth . |
| 15 | Mr. Green has again promised me the pencilled sketches of Dove 's Nest . |
| 16 | At this juncture , I realized that I had driven close to the point where the boat had landed me the previous evening . |
| 17 | Well she was she served me the other day , Dawn |
| 18 | I replied that of course such decisions were entirely his prerogative , then I fell into a musing mood and sought to recall something Rosa had asked me the previous week about English social customs . |
| 19 | Yes I I was erm the additional information that was available to me at this time , er Sergeant the er having left me the previous night er had actually , had gone to the premises erm , gone to the flats erm and had er put himself in the area of the flat and was able to tell me that he had heard voices , two male voices coming from within the flat . |
| 20 | I recently helped one of the Costain girls on some research and she has sent me the final document , which I suspect will one day be of invaluable professional use , so it was nice she remembered . |
| 21 | Elizabeth had sent me the hideous paper cover of the Italian translation of A Wreath of Roses , in shame marking it BURN . |
| 22 | ‘ If I 've got my pants on in the second scene , I think they 've sent me the wrong script , ’ he says . |
| 23 | He 'd tried , the first year , rooming with the others , and had found they still came up to him all the time with their queries — ‘ They 've sent me the wrong costume for Gypsy Baron . |