Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] he [vb -s] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I pay the rent and he lets me sleep here . ’ |
| 2 | At Christmas I give Otley my turkey and he gives me his Brussels sprouts . |
| 3 | He has his independence and he tells me he has never been happier in his life . |
| 4 | He tells us that he ‘ spent months researching ’ ( citations from his letter , The Art Newspaper No. 22 , October 1992 , p.3 ) the texts which he uses in his work at the Neue Galerie at Kassel and he criticises me for ‘ forgetting ’ these texts which took him so long to research , even though they are clearly mentioned in the second , fourth and fifth paragraphs of my article which comprises only seven paragraphs . |
| 5 | Oh yes it 's , it 's been changed a lot and a , and er , it 's made such a difference and I 've met er , I 've got a er fr a very good friend who 's , who 's a Red Cross young man who I met at Leah Manning and he takes me out in the car which I would n't , never get out otherwise because my boys are all working you see they ca n't , they 're busy working and erm do shift work and security work , one 's got his own security business and the other one 's got a factory in Bishop 's Stortford so that they do n't get much chance , they work away , some of them do that they can not get to take me out see , so he takes me out , which he 's very , very good you know , he 's , yesterday he took me to erm , yesterday we , he took me to Ongar to see his sister in the bungalow and then he took me for a meal at erm The Chariot at er , at Brentwood , Brentwood , yes Brentwood The Chariot , it was quite nice I had rather , a good time , erm cos usually I ca n't get out unless I go out in the wheelchair you see I 'm confined to a wheelchair , though I struggle out into the kitchen with me two sticks and I 've got a stool in there that I do all my own cooking and I make cakes and that and I 'm doing a cake gon na make a cake for Christmas for me brother and make a cake , er another one for myself like , but , and then I go to my erm daughter-in-law 's to spend Christmas Day and then I , I 'm going to my son 's and spend Boxing Day which is my birthday , I 'll be seventy four on Boxing Day I 'm dreaded to say , yeah , but erm , this young man that takes me lives in Northbrooks , he 's er a widower , but he 's very , very good , he helps all us old people , you know , he 's ever so good he is to me , he comes up and brings my shopping today , does my shopping for me as well , so , well he 's , yes , he 's most kind , for , nearly two years I 've know him , that 's a photo over there , it was taken at a wedding look , of my , that 's it , over there , taken at a wedding dear , very good |
| 6 | To mark his disapproval of my doing so he gives me the wrong ticket and some change , of which the amount , as far as I can see , bears no relation to any previous transaction between us . |
| 7 | I love my husband and he loves me . |
| 8 | I catch the colleague 's eye as he passes me . |
| 9 | A : hello Mr Parkin this is Guy Cook here B : yes A : er do you remember um sending us a er an estimate for electrical repairs * for a hundred and fifty pounds * well I 've er just had a word with the Electricity Board with an engineer called Mr Golding and he tells me that the er the list of jobs you gave us unless there 's any special circumstances should not be more than around one hundred pounds B : oh * A : well he said he 'd have to look at it of course but er is there some special reason why you thought it would cost more A : well would you be prepared to do it for the price he quoted B : no A : well why not B : I ca n't afford it not with my wages and overheads £ I have A : well £ why should I pay an extra fifty pounds if I can get it done cheaper * B : well if you can do that * do |
| 10 | I 'll go and phone him , put ten P in the phone and he rings me at the phone box . |
| 11 | It was pinned down by Bowe when he said : ‘ Lewis will never be regarded as world champion until he beats me . ’ |
| 12 | I call my dad Roderick and he calls me Louiserick . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ The cliché is true : he is a living , breathing creature and he haunts me . |
| 14 | When he 's on the tee he asks Tony Jacklin if he knows me , and Tony says , ‘ Yes . |
| 15 | I have checked with our Information Services manager and he tells me that Wimpey did not take any photographs of military airfields prior to or during the war years . |
| 16 | I happen to know , from a friend of mine , that Robert Trivers , long before he was the great evolutionary biologist he is today , when he was an illustrator of children 's books , argued the whole thing to and fro with a friend of mine who was a Freudian analyist and he tells me that in the beginning all they talked about was Freud . |
| 17 | But I have been in regular contact with Ali Bacher and he assures me there are no problems over the tour and that it is definitely on . ’ |
| 18 | There 's a pal of mine who works at the wood yard and he brings me a bag of bits of wood that 's been left over . |
| 19 | Now I teach him about indie music and he teaches me about dance . |
| 20 | He wonders why I 'm not caddying for Arnold Palmer , so I tell him there 's been a mix-up and he takes me on . |
| 21 | If I 'm with Ibrahim , I go to bed when he tells me , otherwise I just go to bed when I 'm tired . |
| 22 | She says in her letter that he misses me dreadfully . ’ |
| 23 | It 's when I try to flutter out of line that he hates me . |
| 24 | I sit and eat my meals and read a book and he watches me . |
| 25 | ‘ Fine by me , but wo n't Bryant smell a rat when he sees me walking out with all this ? ’ |
| 26 | I could not have him put down as I am a widow and he keeps me company . |
| 27 | Can you try and work out why he 's at school cos he baffles me ! |
| 28 | He 's mad on polo so he takes me to the Hurlingham Club to watch him play . |
| 29 | He has a mordant wit , ‘ t is plain , and it diverts me to teach him our language as he serves me . |