Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] me [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Albert as chairman asked me a number of questions to which he already knew the answers for the good reason that we had already gone over them in Fulham . |
| 2 | Geoff 's mum got me a piece of cheese last week from Superkeys . |
| 3 | The card told me the rest . |
| 4 | The silver threepenny piece that I received as reward was hard earned but the episode taught me a lesson early in life — that good results are only achieved by extra effort . |
| 5 | My mummy brought me a bit and we 're going out on Saturday anyway . |
| 6 | The feedback gave me a review of those questions . |
| 7 | Her entry gave me the chance to ignore Ernest and present her with Victor 's note myself , which I did . |
| 8 | D.C.L. degree by Oxford University and the College gave me the honour of welcoming her with flowers ’ . |
| 9 | Eventually the Corporal gave me a cigarette , and in due course we pulled over at a roadside cafe to have a cup of coffee and to stretch our legs . |
| 10 | Oh , and the priest gave me a pot of wild boar pâté . |
| 11 | After more enquiries , a devout soccer fan gave me a selection to read . |
| 12 | Recently my local baker told me the stoneground organic loaf I was buying would be the last . |
| 13 | ‘ Yes , Mum told me a couple of days go , and that he was working at OBEX . |
| 14 | The Fat Controller poured me a glass . |
| 15 | The painting on the flat inner bowl of the kylix gave me a shock . |
| 16 | According to the map it was there , but the fact that the dwellings seemed half hidden by the trees and were the same colour as the desert gave me a tinge of doubt . |
| 17 | ‘ As a newcomer to AEA the Strategic Options Exercise gave me the chance to focus on some fundamental issues about the way we manage our activities , ’ he told AEA Times . |
| 18 | Another boy wrote me a postcard saying that he wanted to marry me tomorrow ! |
| 19 | The midwife showed me a note that had been pinned to the baby 's jacket under the shawl . |
| 20 | His Excellency showed me a film he had taken of the three northern islands of the Tonga group which — being some 300 miles north of the main island — are invariably overlooked by such few visitors as Tonga receives . |
| 21 | So , for example , a 44-year-old man maintained that sex taunts drove him to strangle his wife , which produced the headline SEX JIBE MADE ME A KILLER ( Daily Mirror ) . |
| 22 | The dressing-robot made me a wedding dress — we have robots for everything like that . |
| 23 | The accident cost me a visit to the local doctor , and Mother several consolatory ice creams . |
| 24 | I was probably asleep when the robot teacher told me the answer to that ! |
| 25 | The postman handed me a letter as I eventually reached my Pop 's house — it was an offer of a council house . |
| 26 | I made a short story of the business and sent it up to Encounter , but the puritanical buggers in charge sent me a rejection slip ! |
| 27 | The Mandarin Group offered me a package I could n't refuse . ’ |
| 28 | My husband gave me the news that my father had died back in the village . |
| 29 | I wanted to have a go but being not yet seven was refused , however the sideshow gave me an idea . |
| 30 | MY HUSBAND bought me a watch as a birthday present , but it kept losing time and I returned it after the holidays . |