Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [vb past] me the " in BNC.
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1 | The lady prioress glowered at me , shrugged , and with ill grace took me back to her own chamber across the cloister garden where she poured me the smallest goblet of wine I had ever seen . |
2 | Yes Chairman , of the hundred and sixty thousand plus cost , erm , part of the contribution by the major servicing committee , and I understand that they advised me the balance has been made from local contributions , and charitable sources . |
3 | Is he aware that they posed me the question , ’ Is anybody in the Government prepared to stand up and fight to defend the coal industry ? ’ |
4 | And they told me about Azul , in Jersey , and before that I think it was before that they showed me the forensic photographs of all of them : Bissett skewered on the railings , grotesque and spread and limp ; the blood-smeared vibrator used on the retired judge , Jamieson ; the drained shapeless white body of Persimmon , tied to his grid above a pool of blood , then nothing when there should have been something ; then what was left of Sir Rufus Carter , blackened bones , distorted and bent , the black skull 's jaw hinged down in a blind scream but the flesh all gone very much a dental-records job and it was all black , the nails , the wood and the bones too but it 's their mouths their jaws I remember , their silent screams , hanging slack or jammed open and it gets worse because they show me the fucking video they show me the video they think I made or that I think they think I made but I did n't ; they make me watch it and it 's horrific ; there 's a man and he 's dressed in black or dark blue and he has a gorilla mask on and he keeps sucking on this little bottle he 's carrying which must be helium because it gives him that baby voice disguising his own voice and he has this fat little guy strapped to a chrome seat , his mouth taped , one arm tied down onto the arm of the chair , shirt rolled up and the little guy 's shrieking as hard as he can but it sounds quiet because the noise is having to come down his nose while the man in the gorilla mask looks from the camera to the guy in the seat and holds up this huge fucking syringe like something from a nightmare from an old movie from a horror film and I can feel my heart beating wildly because that 's what this is . |
5 | Their reaction was so encouraging that it gave me the strength to carry on . |
6 | Tom could see this so he gave me the key to his hotel room and told me to have a shower and put on some of his clothes . |
7 | I have looked after his books for forty years and that 's all I know , so he gave me the capital to start and here I am . ’ |
8 | ‘ And you gave me the best ! ’ |
9 | for Christmas , and it was delicious the way her mother made it so she started it with me writing it down , see , and she told me the ingredients and then she said you brews the ginger I thought |
10 | I a lot , cos I remember erm when Claire was I got a really formal invitation to something and I asked Claire how you were supposed to reply and she told me the exact wording of how you should reply and I just looked at her I looked at her and I said I 'm not bloody writing that . |
11 | It was of course my mother , and she asked me the same questions as my neighbour . |
12 | There was a slight delay as she read it and then her head slowly turned in my direction and she gave me the biggest grin I 'd ever seen . |
13 | And she gave me the immortal reply , ‘ No , I 'm Heather , but wo n't I do ? ’ |
14 | And I said I said so I told her the registration and she gave me the room number but she said . |
15 | Well I 'll never forget when we were younger , we had erm some Americans living across the road and they invited us er somehow I was in the kitchen , they were going to give me lunch and she gave me the most enormous |
16 | And she bought me the glass bowl . |
17 | Even so , I did meet one girl at Binbrook who had knitted a whole twin set from darning wool cut into short lengths , weaving all the ends together as she knitted ! — and she showed me the finished product to prove it . |
18 | I did n't care if she called me the son of Frankenstein . |
19 | Mr Koc said : ‘ If you gave me the whole of Istanbul I would not do anything like that . |
20 | Mr Koc said : ‘ If you gave me the whole of Istanbul I would not do anything like that . |
21 | ‘ One train a week and they told me the wrong day . |
22 | When she decided , with the rest of the children , to go to Waco Monday and they told me the Sunday . |
23 | Most of the people I went with took mountain bikes and they envied me the Pioneer as I sped along with far less effort that they had to use . |
24 | And they sold me The Last Boy Scout . |
25 | I 'd been to see my great-aunt 's solicitors in Glasgow and they gave me the keys . |
26 | Not only was Pumblechook 's elbow in my eye , but I was n't allowed to speak , and they gave me the worst pieces of meat . |
27 | ‘ And they gave me the job . ’ |
28 | I du n no if they told me the way — I can t remember , but I think it 's this way . |
29 | I had arranged for her to see a specialist , and he told me the condition was irreversible , that she would never lose her sight completely but that she would be almost totally blind within a year . |
30 | I was just home from Germany and he asked me the way . |