Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [vb past] me [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I felt ill and someone gave me some DFs and I felt better . |
| 2 | I implored him not to , but he was adamant , thus following Rear Admiral Poland who had resigned from Muirfield in consequence of my being blackballed there ( ‘ it makes no sense at all ’ , he wrote to the secretary , ‘ that he can be accepted as a guest but blackballed as a member ’ ) : both were sacrifices for which I felt a personal responsibility and which caused me much distress . |
| 3 | It 's obviously a hell of a technique to master and somebody told me that , just to make things worse , you grinned when you did it ! |
| 4 | And nobody told me that . |
| 5 | And who gave me that Right ? ’ |
| 6 | And she told me that , while working at another bank , she had once been summoned to an office four flights away . |
| 7 | And she told me some character called Steve produced a gun when Newman , the foreign correspondent , interrupted their tete-a-tete . |
| 8 | Mrs Chamberlin has more than a dozen and she gave me such beautiful eggs to bring home . |
| 9 | And she rang me this morning for , well er it was so comical cos Gemma had said to me yesterday you know what about the holiday and I said sure that does n't have to be paid till the end of the month and erm you sure before we go into this ? |
| 10 | So I had to go to the , like the job centre and they offered me this , which I did n't really fancy at the time . |
| 11 | ‘ — and I was placed between Harry Burrows and Piers Langley and they told me all about hunting round here and really it was so interesting that I hardly noticed what we ate , some sort of fish and pheasant I think and , oh yes , there was an ice but by that stage , you know , I did n't have the smallest corner to put in so much as a mouthful — ’ |
| 12 | I mean in terms of population I think I somebody did er Strathclyde regional council used to be a client of mine when I was with Three M er well you know a client of my rep up here but er and they told me some time that I think a huge percentage of the whole of Scotland 's population |
| 13 | eighty pound if it 's not one thing you know it 's fortnight ago from Co-Op it 's forty one P a packet , went last week it was forty six P a packet , so Richard and Angela went the other day for nan and they got me some at same time , she leant me the money , yeah , cos I was absolutely broke , gone back down again to forty one |
| 14 | And Ford 's put up a lot of the money and so they wanted their cut from the publicity , and they gave me another award , and their manager in Brighton came to present it . |
| 15 | And they says , Well a person who lived in your flat before you had a telly , you know and they gave me some excuse , you know that the the the person who lived in here before me had ripped them off and they says , How do we know that you 're not that person , you know things like that . |
| 16 | I read them , furtively , like boys do pornography , and they showed me another world . |
| 17 | The thing is my father was a journalist , and he taught me all the fucking tricks . |
| 18 | Well and he wrote me this letter saying erm saying I , I realise that there 's been something on your mind recently and I hope you can talk to me about it . |
| 19 | and he told me many funerals used to pass |
| 20 | He refused to eat , the stupid man , and he sent me some angry letters . |
| 21 | And he brought me these forty baskets of tomatoes this Friday night . |
| 22 | ‘ I spoke to him on Sunday night and he wished me all the best , while I thanked him . |
| 23 | I , he asked me the one , you know , we were on about this morning , the only one we looked at , fifty miles an hour and he asked me that one and I knew it . |
| 24 | He retired after the last C E T and he gave me all his pens and stuff . |
| 25 | and he gave me that information repeatedly and he 's terribly involved . |
| 26 | And he gave me that information that there were eighteen crews . |
| 27 | ‘ Oh yes , I suppose so ’ , he said , and he gave me some tablets . |
| 28 | He said , ‘ I 'll get you out tonight , ’ and he gave me some of his stuff — black polo-neck , black pyjamas . |
| 29 | A farmer friend of mine came to look the place over shortly after we bought it and he gave me some useful advice : that , whatever happened , we must enjoy doing the work . |
| 30 | Especially as I went in and he gave me those brochures . |