Example sentences of "[adj] [noun prp] [noun] [verb] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 've had a problem with damp Mollie Noel tells me ? |
| 2 | I 've lived carefully , and I 've got some savings — and old Mr. Stavanger left me £2,000 in his will — because of my father , you see . |
| 3 | I suppose if you were either one of them it would be nice but I 'd go out and say to them , ‘ David , it 's time for us to do a vocal now ’ and Angie would say , ‘ Oh , Davey Wavey , do you have to leave me now ? ’ , to which he 'd reply , ‘ Oh , Angie Pangie , I suppose I do — old Uncle Tony wants me in the studio . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Old Harry Stearns told me . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Old Harry Stearns told me . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Another story touching on wet days : poor old Mrs Suggett told me it . |
| 7 | I did n't actually visit Mum for very long but old Mrs McSporran told me all the news of the Senior Citizens and our deacon gave me a few tips about growing rhubarb . |
| 8 | IT did n't take the small but determined palmist , medium and clairvoyant Verran Boswell to tell me I would never afford the ‘ Dream House ’ at the Ideal Home Exhibition . |
| 9 | That bloody Williams bloke makes me puke ! |
| 10 | A young woman living in a semi-detached house on an unpopular Sheffield estate showed me a letter she 'd just received from the electricity board : " A board employee will … call at your premises to cut off the electricity supply on 9/11/82 . |
| 11 | Nicandra tried to think of something pleasing to say : " Maman , do you think the Little Lord Jesus heard me ? " she came out with at last . |
| 12 | Well thank you Chairman , I have to go back to last Wednesday afternoon , when I had a telephone call from a reporter from the Eastern Daily Press asking me to make a statement on the press release by Suffolk County Council stating that the Bungay bypass has been abandoned well Chairman I have to say that I was somewhat erm put out , because I did I disappoint I think because they , the Highway Department did n't have the courtesy to inform me first , and you can well imagine how I felt er having received this news . |
| 13 | As we drove back to Sligo Town , good Father Devine regaled me with stories of Ireland 's literary giants . |
| 14 | I had to find it , going through her things and making a record as her grand London Lawyer instructed me ! ’ |
| 15 | The next day , the lecherous SS man met me — he said by chance . |
| 16 | Indeed on the nineteenth of January the Noble Earl Lord told me that of the three hundred and sixty letters which had been received from a wide variety of organisations representing people of totally different political opinions and that following the publication of the White Paper . |
| 17 | The Repertory of the Homoeopathic Materia Medica presented me with a view of patients and diseases which was quite unlike anything which I had encountered , and gave many lively examples of the ways in which Kent had solved the clinical problems with which he had been faced . |
| 18 | ‘ IT USED TO BE an honour to have the local MP to dine , ’ a big Yorkshire landowner told me . |
| 19 | ‘ What enabled you to be so certain Heather Mallender visited me here ? ’ |
| 20 | But trainer-manager Alan Toweel tells me : ‘ The crowd gave Pierre a standing ovation and then Bowe came into our dressing-room . |
| 21 | The acquisition of a new Wilson racquet fooled me into thinking I could teach Adam how to play . |
| 22 | Redundancy and a wrecked career as a forgotten man seemed inevitable until right out of the blue Graham Taylor threw me a lifeline and persuaded me to join him at Aston Villa . |
| 23 | Last Winter , queuing in New York early one Saturday morning for the next week 's standing tickets at the Met ( a tremendous set of experiences : to queue , to stand , to hear Opera at the Metropolitan ) , a young Yale Student commended me to COPLAND 's 3rd Symphony . |
| 24 | And how well I remember the tawdry Dave Mellor castigating me for ‘ snorting and sneering ’ at his apocalyptic view of what a Labour Government would mean . |
| 25 | ‘ If you go to the left of the ditch you will be in real trouble with reeds rushes , bushes and goodness knows what , ’ professional John Davies warned me . |
| 26 | A talkative Bruce Willis dropped me outside the London flat fifteen minutes later ( you can assess the situation on the way upstairs ) , and Kenneth came down to meet me at the door . |
| 27 | ‘ I 've bin rubbin' 'im wiv that liniment ole Doctor Kelly give me , an' I made 'im wear a sheet o' brown paper under 'is vest . |