Example sentences of "[noun] [noun prp] [noun] [verb] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was still very pleased , however , when the statistician Ian Hodge told me at the end of the year that I had moved from being 156th in the world 100 metres ranking list in 1985 to 4th in 1986 ! |
| 2 | By contrast Burroughs Wellcome sent me a generous supply of6-MP along with some easy-to-follow directions for its administration . |
| 3 | Peggy van Praagh told me that , even so early , de Valois had said to her ‘ I think he 'll make a choreographer ’ , but she was already trying out several other aspirants , so could not give him immediate chances . |
| 4 | The Potter whose grandmother employed the second and third kitchenmaids in question was , M. André Simon tells me , Major Matthew Connolly ( father of Mr Cyril Connolly ) ; and with his felicitous evocation of a mid-Victorian country breakfast table and those second and third kitchenmaids pounding away at the ham and tongue for potting he makes a number of points , most relevant of which concerns the kitchenmaids . |
| 5 | Several times Miss Havisham ordered me to bring Estella to visit her , and of course I always obeyed . |
| 6 | Next morning , as I went to take in the milk , Mrs Rankin , our Burnfoot Avenue landlady greeted me . |
| 7 | David Lock sir excuse me . |
| 8 | But Britain 's Vice-Consul Harold Jenkins told me : ‘ Sadly it may be quite impossible for them to make positive identifications . ’ |
| 9 | I had invited any of the hospital staff who had cared to come , and my ‘ Dawes Road ’ friend Miss Dorrie Pierce told me that church folk had organized a little wedding tea , and my husband-to-be had ordered and paid for a wedding cake . |
| 10 | ‘ Then we 're Hollywood bound , ’ her agent Kerry Gardner tells me . |
| 11 | ‘ Bob accepted The Changeling because he wanted to get his teeth into some really good British heavyweight drama , ’ his agent Liz Souissi tells me . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | As show jumper and trainer John Bunyan told me on our first lesson ( see next month 's diary ) : ‘ You have to work out the difference between ‘ Ca n't ’ and ‘ Wo n't ’ . |
| 14 | The reason he asked me out , dear Leo , was because he had overheard some of the girls from the agency talking about the money Aunt Jane left me — was n't it wonderful ? |
| 15 | Then editor Ian Pye gave me my first assignment : ‘ Do the gig guide . |
| 16 | The manner in which the hand-lettered sign on the side attacked Senator Edward Kennedy told me more than enough about them . |
| 17 | Do you mean that that bloody fool Hector McGillivray fobbed me off with a boat that 's — that 's been- ? ’ |
| 18 | Nevertheless , although I knew that there would be no Castello di Blandings awaiting me — Eric had always gone to great lengths to tell me that his family was not at all grand or well-off-I said yes . |
| 19 | ‘ Does — does Mr — er — Señor de Santis want me to go out there ? ’ |
| 20 | Hugh de Tracy refused me his daughter as if I had less worth than the slave who cleans out the garderobe tunnel . |
| 21 | Then there is Thames itself , where chairman Roy Watts tells me privatisation has worked wonders with staff morale . |
| 22 | Will Resenence Jeopardy give me some kind of knowledge ? |
| 23 | Sir Hector Pittendrigh interviewed me . |
| 24 | AUTHOR Jeffrey Archer tells me that he is still signing his name ‘ Jeffrey Archer ’ in his books , rejecting the easy option available since his peerage of signing just ‘ Archer ’ . |
| 25 | The vacancy must be filled within three days , and for those three days Aunt Louise berated me almost without pause . |
| 26 | Announcing a third year of increased profits , managing director Anthony Mackintosh tells me : ‘ We plan to have a new front entrance , so in the evening it 's not quite so like Twickenham . ’ |
| 27 | The idea of a one-woman tribute was conceived five years ago , when larger-than-life director Bryan Izzard asked me to contribute to a Channel Four programme on the monologue called The Eye Of The Little Yellow Dog , starring , amongst others , the late Leonard Rossiter , Cilla Black , Alec McCowen , Diane Langton , Anita Harris and Ronald Lacey . |
| 28 | Of this Miller writes , ‘ It grows naturally in the West Indies , whence the late Mr. Robert Miller sent me the seeds ’ , and it would seem likely that Ehret 's specimen had been raised at Chelsea . |
| 29 | Sir J. Franklin desires me to give his compliments — he is in very good health & hopes you are the same . ’ |
| 30 | Yet in the middle years of the Thatcher government , I recall Sir Geoffrey Howe telling me how impressed he was by the number of letters he was receiving , especially from young people , about the crisis in the third world . |