Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] me [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She gave me an extra pillow , kept me supplied with boiling bottles , brought me Vichy , and my meals on a little round table , actually produced a bottle of alcool camphre & frictioned me & gave me some lime flower tea before I went to sleep . |
| 2 | The dank smell of the water was not unpleasant , and for years the scent of la Sologne that enveloped me that night would pierce my memory : a combination of stagnant water , slime , wild mushrooms , wispy dry grasses , sand and well-hung game . |
| 3 | I mean as I said when I was filling in the questionnaire I was thinking well this , really this is my preference and you know I 'd much rather be in a job that allowed me some flexibility . |
| 4 | But the thing that fascinated me last night was the statistic about Gillette do you know they said when Gillette started When Gillette started doing the erm Gillette Cup , it cost them five thousand a year . |
| 5 | Somehow if I could only know what he was doing and who he was seeing , that gave me some kind of control over the situation . |
| 6 | And rang me this morning . |
| 7 | I gave my orders and they led me to a private room and brought me some writing paper and a pen . |
| 8 | I recently had some bad news and everyone helped me through it and gave me great support . |
| 9 | I will return and tell Prince Rainbow that the lung 's guard were foolish and gave me such treatment as one might expect from a crowd of flea-bitten louts . " |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ At the hospital , the registrar said , ‘ No , it 's a sebaceous cyst , and we would n't normally operate , but since you are worried we 'll cut it out , ’ and gave me local anaesthetic . |
| 12 | Er you get some man come and gave me ten pound for it . |
| 13 | Somebody told me we were halfway to Maun and gave me some water which I was too thirsty to sterilise . |
| 14 | Although small , my enthusiasm for all Sports helped me and gave me some popularity at school . |
| 15 | The nurse came down and gave me some medicine which totally knocked me out . |
| 16 | Sure enough she offered straight away and gave me some lipstick as well . |
| 17 | Altogether , the tour gave the Indians maximum exposure to me and gave me maximum exposure to the ELT situation in India . |
| 18 | Here 's me thinking I woke me and dressed me this morning , and all the time I 'm still in bed and dreaming . |
| 19 | I rang the School of Tropical Medicine in London and told them I 'd picked up a botfly , and they said ‘ very exciting ’ and quoted me some home cures : ‘ Keep a raw steak over the hole for a couple of hours and the larva will burrow to the surface to breathe and then you can take the steak away … ‘ |
| 20 | The rescue helicopter still had n't arrived when we were fifteen miles from the coast and Warton gave me Blackpool 's frequency and wished me good day ’ . |
| 21 | After a period spent talking about the Legion and what we thought it was going to be like , he turned to me , shook my hand and wished me good luck . |