Example sentences of "[adj] [noun prp] [noun] [vb past] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ Old Harry Stearns told me . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Old Harry Stearns told me . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Another story touching on wet days : poor old Mrs Suggett told me it . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | As we drove back to Sligo Town , good Father Devine regaled me with stories of Ireland 's literary giants . |
| 9 | I had to find it , going through her things and making a record as her grand London Lawyer instructed me ! ’ |
| 10 | The next day , the lecherous SS man met me — he said by chance . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ IT USED TO BE an honour to have the local MP to dine , ’ a big Yorkshire landowner told me . |
| 14 | ‘ What enabled you to be so certain Heather Mallender visited me here ? ’ |
| 15 | The acquisition of a new Wilson racquet fooled me into thinking I could teach Adam how to play . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |