Example sentences of "[vb base] me [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Book me a single room at my usual hotel , will you ? |
2 | Bring me a hot towel and a ! |
3 | These were apparently induced , or incubated , by Gilgamesh , who dug a well , went up to the mountain and poured out a fine meal on the ground before saying , " O mountain , dwelling of the gods , bring me a favourable dream " . |
4 | God speed you , and bring me a hopeful answer — both for England and Wales ! ’ |
5 | Bring me the bloody cheese grater in the ! |
6 | bring me the drowsy country thing ! |
7 | Right can one person from each table please bring me the red files Boys can I have your red files please What was that ? |
8 | Bring me the little book , that might have it as well . |
9 | Come on make me a nice cup of tea . |
10 | Go and make me a nice cup of tea Mike ? |
11 | Make me a better job prospect . ’ |
12 | ‘ I 'll be interested if Newcastle make me a good offer , ’ said the 25-year-old Ghent striker . |
13 | Make me a whole man before I go out to take the field with Wales in my hands . |
14 | Please send me a free sample from the Omega Pet Foods range and further information . |
15 | Simply send me a large cheque and I will provide you with the ordnance survey co-ordinates of its last sighting . |
16 | Please accept my application and enrol me as a member of The Literary Guild and send me the introductory books whose numbers I have printed in the boxes provided . |
17 | PEOPLE send me the funniest letters . |
18 | The waiter said no all off oh send me the usual toast . |
19 | I would be grateful if you could look into the matter and send me the duplicate Agreement as soon as possible , as I have your copy of the tape ( VM on IBM at 1600 bpi ) ready to despatch to you on return of the documents . |
20 | The first part of the remark was tautologous ( show me a peaceful terrorist ) ; and the second was untrue : Gerry Adams had just lost his West Belfast constituency . |
21 | You show me a tweed-skirted twinset and pearl wearer , and I guarantee there 's a scarlet bustier pulsating beneath . |
22 | ‘ To those who took offence at the ‘ Burn down the disco ’ line , I 'd say , please show me the black members of New Order . |
23 | Show me the ultimate intensifiers of sin . |
24 | And they told me about Azul , in Jersey , and before that I think it was before that they showed me the forensic photographs of all of them : Bissett skewered on the railings , grotesque and spread and limp ; the blood-smeared vibrator used on the retired judge , Jamieson ; the drained shapeless white body of Persimmon , tied to his grid above a pool of blood , then nothing when there should have been something ; then what was left of Sir Rufus Carter , blackened bones , distorted and bent , the black skull 's jaw hinged down in a blind scream but the flesh all gone very much a dental-records job and it was all black , the nails , the wood and the bones too but it 's their mouths their jaws I remember , their silent screams , hanging slack or jammed open and it gets worse because they show me the fucking video they show me the video they think I made or that I think they think I made but I did n't ; they make me watch it and it 's horrific ; there 's a man and he 's dressed in black or dark blue and he has a gorilla mask on and he keeps sucking on this little bottle he 's carrying which must be helium because it gives him that baby voice disguising his own voice and he has this fat little guy strapped to a chrome seat , his mouth taped , one arm tied down onto the arm of the chair , shirt rolled up and the little guy 's shrieking as hard as he can but it sounds quiet because the noise is having to come down his nose while the man in the gorilla mask looks from the camera to the guy in the seat and holds up this huge fucking syringe like something from a nightmare from an old movie from a horror film and I can feel my heart beating wildly because that 's what this is . |
25 | Yeah , cost me a lot , cost me a great deal of money . |
26 | 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 . ’ |
27 | ‘ Your — your integrity cost me an awful lot of misery , ’ she whispered . |
28 | She now has a wedding dress that cost me the national debt , but which now bears no relation to the original creation because all the expensive seed-pearls are strewn around her bedroom floor , and which the dog thought would be marvellous to eat and is now residing at the local vet 's and which will cost me even more money . |
29 | stop me a little bit . |
30 | I definitely could n't afford that , so I took it back to the Oxford Used Car Centre and erm what happened , the mechanical breakdown service — now this is where I thought they were very good — they reimbursed me all the money that I 'd paid out on those repairs plus they did the repairs and put me a new gearbox in and the car 's running perfectly . |