Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] [vb past] me [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | All I was told is that you 're getting twelve months guarantee , but you 've got to have a three thousand mile service , and as the gentleman said erm I recorded the deliveries and sent them all back and on the third one , when I took it in I asked if they 'd put a new set of points in for me and erm unfortunately when it came out there was no compression at all and because because I it was suggested that I dug my heels in a bit and got an independent report and erm basically they told me to get lost because it cost fifty pound to do the report . |
2 | So they asked me to go away and come back again in a week which gave me breathing space and time at least to learn it properly . |
3 | He , they left the er they 'd gone said leave it in the conservatory , then he went out and and and and er shut his conservatory so they could n't leave it so they asked me to keep it for him . |
4 | I ca n't believe how long it took me to realise you really were innocent ! ’ |
5 | D do you know how how long it took me to do them ? |
6 | Perhaps he wanted me to admit that I 'm a lucky bastard to be where I am , that I 'm Hollywood 's most successful failure , perhaps he wanted me to cry on screen . |
7 | Perhaps he wanted me to admit that I 'm a lucky bastard to be where I am , that I 'm Hollywood 's most successful failure , perhaps he wanted me to cry on screen . |
8 | So he taught me to drive see and It was much easier then you see with a car . |
9 | So he told me to go and ask for a job there . |
10 | So he told me to keep clear of them . |
11 | So he asked me to bring some stuff up . ’ |
12 | So he asked me to play , cos they 're playing against the Scotches . |
13 | So he made me pretend I was in a dead faint . |
14 | and er , anyway she got me walking out and she says er , see you when I come back , that was er about twenty past that was twenty past eleven was n't it ? |
15 | They did n't like the EVO column one bit and finally they made me choose between them and it . ’ |
16 | McIllvanney did not respond , except to stare at me with his unblinking and reptilian eyes , and thus he forced me to add an unnecessary explanation . |
17 | Downstairs he let me watch him make tea ( in the outer cellar ) , and something ridiculous he said made me laugh — or want to laugh . |
18 | And once she took me to see . |
19 | Den it made me gu looking fe a job , |
20 | In fact a couple of nights later he took me to see Max Miller at Holborn Empire and would not let me pay for anything . |
21 | Now she wanted me to help her edit it into shape . |
22 | Now he wanted me to return the favour . |
23 | Well I got me shopping and it cost me forty summat one . |
24 | Well she taught me to knit and she taught me to do a lot of embroidery and that sort of thing . |
25 | Well she convinced me to start off with foam , you know webbing on the foam and I said well |
26 | Even she wanted me to get erm Sophie . |
27 | So I carried on walking and they start going through this bleeding wood , well they had me climbing over three fence things , all like them metal you know like them metal fences at wood ? |
28 | Five years ago they invited me to go and spend Christmas with them . |
29 | ‘ Today he told me to deliver a packet and I was not to tell you . |
30 | well he told me to say it |