Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [verb] me [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A hypothetical imperative tells me that , as a rational being , I must do such and such if I desire to obtain a certain upshot , because it is the essential means to that upshot , and he who wills the end must will the means . |
| 2 | Another monster gave me some fruit to eat . |
| 3 | Cos you ca n't get , an old bloke told me that . |
| 4 | ( The Bass Centre tell me this has now been superseded , although details of the new ‘ P ’ logo have not yet been made available . ) |
| 5 | I must admit that this situation caused me some anxiety at an earlier stage , but no point was made about this in the Press either before or after the Election . |
| 6 | A call from a trusted contact informed me that senior police officers from the Royalty and Diplomatic Protection squad had been summoned to Buckingham Palace and ordered to find who leaked the story . |
| 7 | A little bird tells me that Scottish & Newcastle 's private jet has been spotted in the neighbourhood of Pilsen . |
| 8 | I 'd then put down the typical weight , a typical height , the main use , the usual colour tell me some key to press please ? |
| 9 | Oliver now come on darling be a good boy give me that . |
| 10 | ‘ I know I 'm your therapist , but I do n't think it 's a good idea to tell me this . |
| 11 | But my clinical experience tells me that for many of you , there 's no choice — other than the possibility of celibacy — for as you 've developed , you 'll have gradually realised that your sexual orientation is homosexual and that you can no more change that than the colour of your eyes . |
| 12 | Speaking of which , the controversial rapper offers me another drink . |
| 13 | Grand Lodge Librarian and Curator John Hamill made it his first priority to assure me that ‘ freemasonry contains neither pagan nor occult practices ’ . |
| 14 | ‘ Of course , I agreed to carry his bag like a shot , and the Irish golfer gave me some very basic instruction in my duties over a couple of pints of the dark stuff from his native land . |
| 15 | Mr Brandreth tells me : ‘ I discovered that we were at Oxford when an American reporter rang me some months ago to ask about him . |
| 16 | Big style give me some boards to look at |
| 17 | I think if you went and saw our own doctors a lot of our fears would be allayed because most of the young doctors would n't , would recommend to you , my own doctor asked me all the questions and different things and then he says he 's a young doctor , he says if I were a women and if I 'd answered all the questions as you did , I would go on H R T. |
| 18 | The thought that such armament was compulsory for anyone privileged enough to own a private car in my own time reminded me that , Napoleonic Wars apart , I was now in an age where the safety and sanctity of the individual was taken for granted . |
| 19 | Yeah well I du n no I 'm dreading the Easter holidays cos I 've got like erm we 're probably gon na have about two hundred pieces of coursework to mark over Easter then there 's , and they 're sort of you know projecty things and things like that erm and then there 's first week next term there 's like all these second year social , which is well over a hundred of them plus about forty final year projects will come in , plus about I 'm hoping it 'll only be twenty things from Loughborough but it might be as many as , as fifty if the other person gives me all their marking er as they have , they 've given some indication that they will |
| 20 | Inside , the elderly English upper-class proprietor told me that true Communism only survives in Albania . |
| 21 | ( A senior African nurse told me this ; and so did Miss Barbara Tredgold , sister of the former Chief Justice and a great champion of the Africans . ) |
| 22 | Will you tell that gaoler to give me some wine ? ’ |
| 23 | I would have concluded Herr Bremann was suffering from some serious illness , but for certain remarks his lordship made at that time assuring me this was not so . |
| 24 | The eccentric bachelor Intrigued me all the time . |
| 25 | ‘ I early found that I had not the literary ability to give me such a place among English authors as I should have desired ; but I thought that I had an opportunity of gaining a knowledge of many of the distinguished men of the age , and that I might do some good by keeping a record of my interviews with them . ’ |
| 26 | Then a British colleague at the Zoological station for this and next academic year lent me another four , and I found a couple on our shelves that I had not read before , so was well away . |
| 27 | Yes , where erm my next neighbour gave me some stuff erm , then I went into her shed cos she had erm , some mice problems so dad went in there to have a look round , seeing the poison were wore off and we found quite a lot of old gardening chu , tools . |
| 28 | I 'd love a true professional to give me some tips , particularly on which brands are best . |