Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] me the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Someone told me the hedge is centuries old . |
| 2 | Earlier this year the mother of three , who counts Warren Beatty and George Hamilton among her former beaus , was quoted as saying : ‘ If someone gave me the cash I 'd have a facelift this minute . ’ |
| 3 | Which made me the family oddity . ’ |
| 4 | Rex asked , which spared me the bother . |
| 5 | Bainbridge has a lovely village green which was the setting for nothing more remarkable than the fact that I arrived there one day to walk over from Bainbridge to Cam Houses with Tony and Eddie , the landlord from my local pub , only to discover that I 'd left my walking boots back at home in Dentdale and had to do the entire walk in a pair of fur-lined cowboy boots , which earned me the nickname of Roy Rogers for the rest of the week . |
| 6 | which earned me the status |
| 7 | Aside from this , there was an invitation to take part in Poll Tax Bingo , an introductory subscription to a new magazine called Torture , Bestiality , Ritual Murder And Game Shows On Cable and Satellite ! and a letter which gave me the chance to send £10 notes to ten strangers . |
| 8 | I 'm just sorry the whole thing happened and the man who must be embarrassed about this most of all is sponsor Matt Laverty who lent me the bike on Thursday night at practice . ’ |
| 9 | She lent me the money to get my second bike — that Triumph Speed Twin : it had a lot of poke for the size . |
| 10 | and erm , she phoned me the night before last for the results come through |
| 11 | said she phoned me the night before last and she said she 's been looking at flats I thought I 'd just ring you to tell you we 've been looking at flats and they range from two hundred and fifty to four hundred and eighty pounds a week for a flat |
| 12 | ‘ This came from the man who found me the assassin , ’ he went on . |
| 13 | A lot of discussion went on between J Walter Thompson and my agent 's assistant , who told me the idea was to vary the commercials considerably so as not to bore the general public . |
| 14 | You told me the truth . ’ |
| 15 | You told me the truth . |
| 16 | You told me the house is in need of attention ; move and you can move to a place which is in excellent order and in a more central position where you 'll be able to attract more customers , ’ he said , treading a verbal tightrope between head-banging irritation and reasoned appeal . |
| 17 | SHE TOLD me the story , but not before she had advised me that she was absolutely scandalized . |
| 18 | where it , she said it was too big for her and er she wanted something smaller , with a swap , well I did n't swap for the reason mine was overlooking the lake , it was in a better position , and er , then she told me the reason she wanted to swap cos er , she said it was too big cos her husband had died , I started to speak to her about when God 's kingdom comes on the earth , these dead ones will come back , these loved ones |
| 19 | She handed me the sheet of grey paper with its synoptic chart which had been transmitted from Florida just a few moments before . |
| 20 | She showed me the way to the Burma Road , and I set off up the wooded slope behind the house . |
| 21 | She was really odd , she showed me the way but she kept saying she would n't come in because she was n't allowed to set foot in there . ’ |
| 22 | She acknowledged this with a raised thumb , but when she showed me the assortment of charts on the bed-table pushed against the wall she gave a thumbs-down over his fluid-intake . |
| 23 | She taught me the song later , and showed me how to control my voice , open my mouth wide and sing loud or sing softly . |
| 24 | I did n't care if she called me the son of Frankenstein . |
| 25 | As we 're going to the 18th tee he says , ‘ Tip , you lost me the Championship . ’ |
| 26 | Though there is a good deal there which I found deeply offensive , he wrote , as you must have realized when you sent me the stuff , though , knowing you as I do , I suspect it may not even have crossed your mind , anyway , to be brief , I have , of course , put my feelings to one side and decided to honour the integrity of . |
| 27 | eighty pound if it 's not one thing you know it 's fortnight ago from Co-Op it 's forty one P a packet , went last week it was forty six P a packet , so Richard and Angela went the other day for nan and they got me some at same time , she leant me the money , yeah , cos I was absolutely broke , gone back down again to forty one |
| 28 | I would accept that since I saw a report only the other day about such a case ( the funeral director involved had a son in my class who brought me the file ) the embalmer had used 8 oz per 80 oz of a very good fluid , but had not put in any co or pre injection fluids and did not mix any other fluids , and he put in 4 × 80 oz bottles . |
| 29 | That 's why she sent me the tape . |
| 30 | It was Virginia who gave me the clue . |