Example sentences of "[noun] [noun prp] [noun] [vb past] 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 | Several times Miss Havisham ordered me to bring Estella to visit her , and of course I always obeyed . |
| 5 | Next morning , as I went to take in the milk , Mrs Rankin , our Burnfoot Avenue landlady greeted me . |
| 6 | But Britain 's Vice-Consul Harold Jenkins told me : ‘ Sadly it may be quite impossible for them to make positive identifications . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ’ . |
| 10 | 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 ? |
| 11 | Then editor Ian Pye gave me my first assignment : ‘ Do the gig guide . |
| 12 | The manner in which the hand-lettered sign on the side attacked Senator Edward Kennedy told me more than enough about them . |
| 13 | Do you mean that that bloody fool Hector McGillivray fobbed me off with a boat that 's — that 's been- ? ’ |
| 14 | Hugh de Tracy refused me his daughter as if I had less worth than the slave who cleans out the garderobe tunnel . |
| 15 | Sir Hector Pittendrigh interviewed me . |
| 16 | The vacancy must be filled within three days , and for those three days Aunt Louise berated me almost without pause . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | These are the tapes Mrs Abberley showed me earlier . ’ |
| 20 | Apart from ice-skating and hockey in my youth , I was not keen on participating in sport , but the sight of skiers gliding over the unmarked hills of newly fallen snow was enticing ; so when the actor Jack Bowdry invited me to have a go at the ski-run atop Grouse Mountain , across the inlet from Vancouver , I agreed with alacrity . |
| 21 | Director Lionel Jeffries treated me and Sally Thomsett like daughters . |
| 22 | Director Barbara Radcliffe showed me one off the old processes . |
| 23 | Listening to the hon. Member for Islington , South and Finsbury ( Mr. Smith ) saying that it was not the Government who had thought of the citizens charter but Mr. Herbert Morrison reminded me that old habits die hard — in particular , the old habit , much beloved of socialist Governments everywhere , of rewriting history . |
| 24 | Deputy managing director Paul Scrimshaw told me : ‘ One of our remedies with hotels that inflate prices is to remove them from our listings . ’ |
| 25 | After the prize giving , Mr Andrew Satow , Major Rupert Lendrum , and Mr John Grant joined me in the car and we drove , still in torrential rain , to Heathrow Airport where we joined Lord and Lady Marchwood Baron de Montesquieu , and Mrs John Grant . |
| 26 | His friend Patrick Newell told me rather more about his drinking exploits . |
| 27 | One day Fred Workman called me and Matt Smith in to see him . |
| 28 | It 's a pad Uncle Jim gave me |
| 29 | A boat returned me to the little coral landing-strip ; Friendly Islands Airways took me down to Tongatapu ; and within half a day I was settled in a small hotel in Auckland , waiting for the weekly Cathay Pacific jet home . |
| 30 | Parore had been heading down the leg side — too far , ex-Central Districts keeper Jack Vernon assured me later — and had to change direction . |