Example sentences of "[be] [verb] me the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No I am grateful to Mr because he 's finally crystallised in my mind something that 's been bugging me the longer I stay on this council about exactly what the Tories see their role here as and it 's now very clear to me , more than ever and that is that if you want to be obstructive and negative and if you go on long enough being obstructive and negative what you can end up doing is that you 'll find yourself eventually in a position going on long enough that you can make totally meaningless speeches but at least you 'll get nice headlines in the paper and that seems to me the whole essence of the Tory strategy . |
| 2 | He says , ‘ You 've been giving me the wrong club all week . ’ |
| 3 | And obviously Janet , you 'll be giving me the other one , so if you can take the time to look at it . |
| 4 | Next thing you 'll be telling me the little cow 's summoned up the ‘ forces of Evil ’ . |
| 5 | I thought you were calling me the bearded wonder then . |
| 6 | And you were telling me the other clubs men men had |
| 7 | Yeah cos , my mates were telling me the other day what 's Gilly said ? |
| 8 | The former England striker revealed : ‘ The chairman has been telling me the same thing ever since I took over 18 months ago . |
| 9 | have n't seen him , it 's Dr I think that 's attended me the last time . |
| 10 | And far from being envious , it is giving me the greatest pleasure . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ What you 're doing , Eva , is handing me the old ‘ everyone 's a junkie ’ line , right ? |
| 12 | And he 's still , one bloke went bankrupt , and he only got amount off him , he 's telling me the other week , he 's , he 's still five thousand pounds owing to him , though , work he did twelve months ago |
| 13 | I mean technically we do have an entitlement to visits in that Janet was was reminding me the other day that that we said , when Deborah was here , that everybody was entitled to four visits a year . |
| 14 | Erm , I was erm , put on just for in ninety seventy three and your question that you 're asked was and from nineteen seventy three till three years ago erm I know took my causes , I trust , put my trust in the doctors and erm over all those years I did n't realize that it was actually the tablets that was causing me the mental illness . |
| 15 | She was berating me the whole time . |
| 16 | Jean was asking me the other day , and really , you 've told me next to nothing . |
| 17 | At 60,000 feet it was harder to tell which was giving me the better high : the puppy poo , the Beastie Boys album or the Cessna . |
| 18 | ‘ Yes , that was because Lesley-Jane was giving me the wrong cues . |
| 19 | I know what profession she 's in , and no wonder that taxi driver was giving me the big smirk . |
| 20 | Now he s he thought he was giving me the same stuff , I did n't know what I was on , all I knew was I felt twice as bad . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'll have your name , and I 'll see that lady who was telling me the other day that Brownie girls do n't raid orchards . ’ |
| 22 | Anyway , just after Christmas this guy says er I still want the hotel so Peter said well you better put something down , you ge , better get something so he he went and put fifty thousand as a deposit on it and then said his legal advisers would be in touch and they had a month went by and they never heard anything , so Peter rang up , he was telling me the other day , er , he rang up yeah , go , he does n't want it you know ? |
| 23 | She was telling me the other day . |
| 24 | Josh Cornock was telling me the big tides of the last few days have brought the elvers down . |
| 25 | The progress of this story was to show me the essential solitariness of other people , people whom I had not thought of as being solitary before . |