Example sentences of "[noun pl] [noun prp] [noun] [verb] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | Several times Miss Havisham ordered me to bring Estella to visit her , and of course I always obeyed . |
| 2 | The vacancy must be filled within three days , and for those three days Aunt Louise berated me almost without pause . |
| 3 | These are the tapes Mrs Abberley showed me earlier . ’ |
| 4 | I worked it out , from things Barbara Coleman told me , and I hitched a lift in a car going up the valley and walked the last mile or two . |
| 5 | By now denying that the arm's-length principle applies to national museums Lord Armstrong makes me wonder how he interpreted his new role when he moved from being Mrs Thatcher 's Cabinet Secretary to being her choice as Chairman of the V & A. If he saw himself as dutifully executing government policy over the V & A 's restructuring it is understandable that he did not subsequently feel constrained to resign , nor to dismiss his director , when it had become clear to the museum 's staff that the essence of the restructuring separation of research from ‘ object-management ’ had been abandoned as unworkable . |
| 6 | In many societies David McKnight tells me the man who does the circumcision who actually chops off the foreskins as it were , owes you a wife for it and he says in many of them if you give a man your foreskin then you 've got a right to demand a wife . |
| 7 | So that 's what I do — I bring all my plants and the flowers Mr Frost gave me a couple of days ago . |
| 8 | And chief of police Don Berke told me : ‘ You are not welcome . |
| 9 | I had been invited to 10 Downing Street for dinner a number of times and on one of those occasions Harold Wilson asked me if I could suggest someone who would go to Salisbury and meet Ian Smith in order to find out whether there was any basis for renewing negotiations . |