Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] me a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And if you want to do me a real favour , stop saying yes , for Christ 's sake . ’ |
| 2 | That skimp cost me a learned pig of prodigious memory , two weeks in Benidorm with a beautician called Tracey , a life peerage and my entire collection of Marc Bolan records . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Just stop giving me a hard time and leave me alone . ’ |
| 4 | Sir , If you please to send me a scarlet Cardinal [ a short red cloak ] , and let it be full yard long , and rather longer than a yard long , and let it be full , for it be for a large Woman , they tell me I may have a long one , and a handsome one , for 11s but I shou 'd not be willing to give more than 12s , but if you have any as long as that , either duffil or cloth , if it is cheaper , I shou 'd like it as well as , for I am not to give but 12s for it . |
| 5 | ‘ The other boys keep calling me a big cissy , ’ sobbed John , ‘ and hitting me ! ’ |
| 6 | ‘ You do love me a little bit , do n't you , Harry ? ’ she said . |
| 7 | They 've given me a major interrogation — I 'd told you about the Englishman — that 's what I should have been working on , not an idiot fire . |
| 8 | And they 've assigned me a prolific blighter ( 'lific blighter ) — |
| 9 | Dearest wave bobber — you 've shown me a living rainbow . ’ |
| 10 | If the Ashford Castle Hotel now wish to give me a free suite in return for this publicity , I shall not demur . |
| 11 | " You 've led me a merry dance , I must say . " |
| 12 | for my biscuit today and for myself I had a dinosaur , Miss gave me a whole dinosaur and I had the head arms , erm , the head of the big one |
| 13 | I add them up yesterday and said what 's it , what do I do , I 've not come to , now they 've sent me a temporary one . |
| 14 | We will — once you 've bid me a proper good morning , the sort a woman gives a man after she 's spent the night in his arms . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ The police have given me a special telephone number . |
| 16 | ‘ They have given me a special office in the Kremlin . |
| 17 | ‘ You have given me a whole month of misery . |
| 18 | Both have given me a remarkable insight into the events they portray . |
| 19 | ‘ Women have taught me a tremendous amount about emotions . |
| 20 | ‘ They have called me a rotten apple , which , coming from them , I take as a compliment , ’ he says . |
| 21 | ‘ You have spun me a whole tissue of lies , of course , ’ Vologsky said finally . |
| 22 | These flowers have lasted me a long time cos Ruth gave them to me on my birthday last month . |