Example sentences of "[v-ing] me the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean technically we do have an entitlement to visits in that Janet was was reminding me the other day that that we said , when Deborah was here , that everybody was entitled to four visits a year . |
| 2 | What with contributions to the housekeeping , the holiday was going to end up costing me the best part of £500 . |
| 3 | Erm , I was erm , put on just for in ninety seventy three and your question that you 're asked was and from nineteen seventy three till three years ago erm I know took my causes , I trust , put my trust in the doctors and erm over all those years I did n't realize that it was actually the tablets that was causing me the mental illness . |
| 4 | I thought you were calling me the bearded wonder then . |
| 5 | I usually stand at the shallow end after she 's finished teaching me the floating bit , and watch her have her swim . |
| 6 | Thank you for sending me the closing statement for the above account . |
| 7 | I 'm not asking you to help me , but at least you can let me get on with things instead of badgering me the whole time . |
| 8 | I shall always be grateful to him for not giving me the usual reply of an adult to a curious child 's questions , ‘ You 're too young to understand . ‘ |
| 9 | The Bölkow 207 is fitted with toe-operated rubber pedals on the P1 position only , so Nigel was being very trusting in giving me the only set of brakes . |
| 10 | And far from being envious , it is giving me the greatest pleasure . ’ |
| 11 | and it was dark green oh it it 's not bad but you know I 'd just lost ten pounds to the taxi driver to him giving me the wrong change so I was feeling in a very frugal mood an and this the green of this candlestick holder you know what I call the old fashioned dark green , of some china ? |
| 12 | She even got round giving me the wrong answer first , which I thought was quite subtle . |
| 13 | He says , ‘ You 've been giving me the wrong club all week . ’ |
| 14 | I know what profession she 's in , and no wonder that taxi driver was giving me the big smirk . |
| 15 | Now he s he thought he was giving me the same stuff , I did n't know what I was on , all I knew was I felt twice as bad . |
| 16 | She was berating me the whole time . |
| 17 | Jean was asking me the other day , and really , you 've told me next to nothing . |
| 18 | Signe drove the old VW carefully — she was a good driver — and insisted upon taking me the prettiest way to Inkeroinen , which meant through the little side roads around Kouvola . |
| 19 | Lastly , I would like to thank my parents for making me the Judaeo-Christian hybrid that I am ; and my husband Timothy Boon for his support and ( not always welcome ) criticism . |
| 20 | I 've never loved him , but now I 've started to hate him — for making me the mercenary bitch I am . |
| 21 | On my first day in the job he took me into the director 's Portakabin , put his arm around me and , showing me the empty trophy case , said ‘ Your job , Les , is to fill that cabinet before I die . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I 'll have your name , and I 'll see that lady who was telling me the other day that Brownie girls do n't raid orchards . ’ |
| 23 | Anyway , just after Christmas this guy says er I still want the hotel so Peter said well you better put something down , you ge , better get something so he he went and put fifty thousand as a deposit on it and then said his legal advisers would be in touch and they had a month went by and they never heard anything , so Peter rang up , he was telling me the other day , er , he rang up yeah , go , he does n't want it you know ? |
| 24 | No I do n't know what it was but Catherine was t telling me the other day about how erm oh I told you something about that and you t and you t were talking to her about it . |
| 25 | She was telling me the other day . |
| 26 | Yeah cos , my mates were telling me the other day what 's Gilly said ? |
| 27 | And he 's still , one bloke went bankrupt , and he only got amount off him , he 's telling me the other week , he 's , he 's still five thousand pounds owing to him , though , work he did twelve months ago |
| 28 | The former England striker revealed : ‘ The chairman has been telling me the same thing ever since I took over 18 months ago . |
| 29 | I 've also had people at forty plus telling me the same thing which is a nonsense . |
| 30 | Are you telling me the old bat did n't pass it on ? ’ |