Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] me [adv] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had often rehearsed the choice phrases which I would use on this very occasion but the sight of the animal restrained me ; if he had come to consult me professionally I could hardly start pitching into him right away . |
| 2 | Bill O'Reilly has told me how he got to know Jardine in later tours of England as a cricketer and writer . |
| 3 | Since she has been grown-up she has told me how she remembers those Saturday mornings and how she loved them . |
| 4 | erm then erm what I 'll do I 'll pick it up next week and that will obviously show you a bit more about Abbey Life and any , any of your friends or anybody you think might , might like to look at the video erm you know just to give them an insight , people you mentioned erm to me that you perhaps know you 'd like to pass the video on to them to have a look erm and if er er you 've got my number and if you want to ring me then I can get some more videos if you think other people might be interested I 'm quite happy to pass them on , on to you as well , okay ? |
| 5 | When they tried to take me away he explained , politely , that he was staying with me . |
| 6 | ‘ I expect you want to ask me how I began in the theatre , ’ Stella said . |
| 7 | When your mother , good woman that she is , came to see me yesterday I was not shocked to hear what she had to say . |
| 8 | The mysterious Fox — I was more certain than ever that he was Special Branch now — that wretched young woman lying there in the mortuary , and I remembered my unease when she 'd told me how she had returned that file at the Records Office . |
| 9 | And then I got all the she 'd mis-changed me so I had to go back and get it . |
| 10 | It was as if I owed him financially for everything he 'd given me , he 'd drawn up a sort of balance sheet , setting adoption against the chances he 'd given me ; because he 'd taken me on I owed him . |
| 11 | ‘ Now , jest tell me when I hurt . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Would you mind telling me where you have just been , and where you are going ? ’ |
| 13 | Before you go , would you mind telling me where you 're staying ? ’ |
| 14 | As the housekeeper hurried away Luce asked dazedly , ‘ Would you mind telling me why I require a coat and a bag ? ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Would you mind telling me how you heard your sister , Sandra Riverton , had been murdered ? ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Do you mind telling me how you know ? ’ |
| 17 | Outside the last bar the cab was waiting remorselessly , the driver with his face averted , waiting to take me somewhere I did n't want to go . |
| 18 | They sent him home from school or something , send him straight home from school and er , do n't know I suppose take him to hospital today and then , I assume they 've got to bring him home and he said oh no he said you have n't got to take me home he said cos the boy 's got to be from school , come round tomorrow and pick you up |
| 19 | Do you like to ask me how I feel ? |
| 20 | Merton 's clothes on this show had by now reached previously unfathomed depths : shrunk , unironed Magic Roundabout T-shirts and lumberjack shirts without washing instructions ( on the one occasion Merton wore a smart suit , he stopped the show mid-way through and exclaimed : ‘ Is n't anyone going to ask me why I 'm looking so smart today ? ’ ) . |
| 21 | ‘ Are n't you going to ask me how I am ? ’ |
| 22 | With the less-than-reliable weather we have been known to experience rom time to time during the course of a season — it never ceases to amaze me how we ever managed to invent a game like cricket in England — an artificial pitch can be extremely valuable in enabling play to take place when otherwise it might not have done . |
| 23 | ‘ You 've got to tell me how you got her to come here — what you said to her — what she said to you — what happened to her . ’ |
| 24 | Donaldson said , ‘ Are you finally going to tell me why I 'm here ? ’ |
| 25 | Rosie said , as they lay back , eyes narrowed in the sun , ‘ Are you going to tell me why you chose Lina ? |
| 26 | ‘ The innocence I saw five years ago is gone , ’ he said calmly , ‘ and one day you 're going to tell me how it happened . |
| 27 | ‘ Would you like to tell me why you want an abortion ? ’ |
| 28 | So , before you start demanding to know why I lied , perhaps you 'd like to tell me why you lied . ’ |
| 29 | Perhaps , to start with , you 'd like to tell me why you felt that you needed a bolt-hole ? |
| 30 | Would you like to tell me where you went last night ? |