Example sentences of "[verb] me this [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Helen : For some reason I thought of it that they 've given me this monster of a baby that I was n't going to be able to love , and some woman came round — she may have been the hospital social worker or an almoner — and spent about an hour telling me how this was going to completely change the course of my life , I was going to be saddled with this child that would need twenty-four hour care and attention , and I had to think carefully about whether I wanted that for the rest of my life , i.e. was I going to keep him — virtually talking me into not keeping him , and I think the turning-point was that I felt there was something coming from the outside that was , sort of , really trying to urge me to reject him , and that I rebelled against it . |
| 2 | Since Siah told me this story about a supreme storyteller , 1 have told the story myself many times . |
| 3 | I was very sorry when you told me this morning of your decision to resign from the Government . |
| 4 | Mix me this zone with that ! |
| 5 | To give me this day at your side was an unforeseen joy , but it oppresses me that it is undeserved : that Famagusta is not yet yours . |
| 6 | THANK YOU , J R SMITH OF CANTERBURY , for sending me this cutting from the Canterbury Extra , offering the ultimate Austin for sale … |
| 7 | And then again if they pay me this money as an ex gratia payment . |
| 8 | But I thank You for giving me this sight of a life of Truth . |
| 9 | And she rang me this morning for , well er it was so comical cos Gemma had said to me yesterday you know what about the holiday and I said sure that does n't have to be paid till the end of the month and erm you sure before we go into this ? |
| 10 | This week 's prize goes by unanimous decision of the judges to East Sussex director Nicholas Holbrook who sent me this letter on alarmingly realistic DoH headed notepaper , with alarmingly realistic signatures of SSI supremo Herbert Laming and Alan Langlands of the NHS Management Executive . |
| 11 | I shou 'd like a cloth one best if you please — I beg of your Sir to be so good as not to fail me this Cardinal by Wednesday , without fail , but let it be full yard long I beg , or else it will not do fail not on Wednesday , and in so doing you will very much oblige me . |
| 12 | ‘ Oh , come on , you do n't really think you 're the first man who 's issued me this kind of invitation ? ’ |
| 13 | ‘ My lord , I have good reason to know that it was you who said a word for me in his Grace 's ear , and gave me this day for thought , and even offered me arguments I was not wise enough to find for myself . |
| 14 | I said it was about the photographs , but even before I 'd finished talking , he gave me this message from Marius to … you know … to get lost . ’ |
| 15 | The second point i is this issue about self containment , er Mr Davis accused me this morning of using some somewhat outlandish words , I think , erm , I did obviously refer to the er my vision of what a new settlement of this size proposed would be , and I I did n't in that mean to imply that I did n't in that mean to imply that I did n't expect that with the right planning that it could n't have clearly local facilities , local school , library , etcetera , but it seemed to me quite clear that the scale proposed it would not have the higher order functions which as we 've heard earlier , Greater York has been defined based on York 's planning assumptions , clearly the major shopping , educational , and social facilities will continue to be provided in the city , and it will produce what is in effect dormitory settlement . |
| 16 | I received with much pleasure the token of your friendship which you have sent me this morning in the way of [ a ] dram Bottle and shall treasure it up until I reach the wilds of the beautiful country I anticipate so much pleasure in exploring . |
| 17 | But , under threat , my Creator has agreed to make me this Eve with whom you interfere , uncovering her nakedness . |