Example sentences of "[adj] and [pers pn] [verb] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | I complained to Northumbrian Water about this and they gave me a very dusty answer . |
| 2 | I thought it showed a gross lack of understanding on her part to have made a comment like this and it made me doubt whether she understood the complexity of the situation . |
| 3 | He then accepted this and he told me he was going to pay me the other £2,500 in Turkey in Turkish money . ’ |
| 4 | He come in laughing one day , look at this Paul , look at this and he shows me this big long letter that this teacher had wrote on . |
| 5 | You see , if I do you a wrong and you forgive me , it 's not because I 've exercised grace , it 's because you 've exercised the grace . |
| 6 | ‘ He was very candid and he gave me the benefit of his thinking about a lot of things , ’ Clinton told reporters after leaving the White House . |
| 7 | I find it unpleasant and it gives me an allergy so I 'd rather you did n't from my point of view . |
| 8 | He 's very , very clever and he teaches me sums and helps me with my homework . |
| 9 | ‘ Dad 's very , very clever and he teaches me sums ’ |
| 10 | The policeman is civil and he lets me go , commenting on my eyesore of a car , warning me to get my tail-light repaired . |
| 11 | I arrived early and he led me upstairs to a comfortable polish-scented lounge and made coffee , before returning to the bar to finish off . |
| 12 | At the time Lady Moon , 54 , said : ‘ It was all so easy and it gave me a hell of a buzz , better than drugs . |
| 13 | And er , that 's right and they told me what they wanted and er that 's right , there was a hundred and fifty-five locks . |
| 14 | The woman in the shop 's pretty friendly and she tells me what to do with the plants — you know , water them once a week , or keep them out of draughts and that . |
| 15 | I specifically asked if this upgrade would be possible and they assured me that it would . |
| 16 | He does n't like to be seen with mum and dad , but when I 'm poorly and he takes me out in the wheelchair , he does n't mind who he meets and he says : ‘ Hi fellas , this is my mum . ’ |
| 17 | If it 's s something like that and they tell me the amount of furniture and if two thirds of the van will be filled with big stuff , and then they tell me there 'll be half a dozen boxes , I assume there 'll be at least four times that number of boxes , and if it 's still going to go on , we 'll do it . |
| 18 | ‘ You say things like that and you expect me to bloody well sleep with you . ’ |
| 19 | She 'd seen her brother 's and she wanted to see if they all looked like that and she asked me so I showed her mine , but it was only if she 'd show me hers and she did as well . ’ |
| 20 | Only a bit in that and he told me , and she kept that . |
| 21 | Paintings erm have the power to take you back in time , I can look at a painting and remember something that 's happened yesterday or years and years ago and as a small child , looking at this painting I remembered as a small child seeing for the first time erm the sea dipping into er , sorry the sun dipping into , into the sea and being horrified I was convinced that the heat of the sun would boil the oceans and the world dry and it reminded me for an awful lot of my childhood and I 'm sure if I 'd seen this painting years ago it would of persuaded me otherwise , erm this is called In A Days Work Satisfaction in a days work , chosen not given , eating the laxed food , face turned to steer a sun , making cloth into a gown and giving colour to the side of a boat |
| 22 | Er the butty paid you , you see , out of his tin , what he thought fit and he gave me ten shillings for the first one I done , first day I done , and I told me Dad when I got home , he says , Ten shillings ? |
| 23 | Mrs Chamberlin has more than a dozen and she gave me such beautiful eggs to bring home . |
| 24 | This was the summer of 1969 and it fired me into action . |
| 25 | She sort of flinches but I dab real soft and she lets me finish . |
| 26 | I could see he was going to be humble and it depressed me . |
| 27 | It 's long and shiny and it takes me ages to do it . |
| 28 | on an underground train which could n't decide if it 's going to move or not , it did eventually move I got a taxi at one point and I was so sick and tired and they put me outside Liberties , I gave the man a twenty pound note and he gave me change for a ten yes , coming back from Oxford Circus from Liberty 's , I thought I 'd better economise , I 've been done out of ten pounds , I do n't think it was dishonesty I think it was just sheer muddle , I , I 'm ten pounds down , I 'm must cut down a bit , so I will come back underground from Oxford Circus to Waterloo to get down to and you 've guessed it , I got into an , an underground train which would not move , it simply stuck , and it would go chugga , chugga , chugga , chugga , chugga , then it would stop in the tunnel for a while , while its . |
| 29 | The descent was nerve-racking and it reminded me of the slow , queasy way light planes come in to land in Himalayan valleys . |
| 30 | Nothing major and it took me a minute or two before I could make out what it was . |