Example sentences of "[vb past] me [adj] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ I made me second team debut when I was eight year old , ’ he claims . |
2 | Harvey passed me two New York numbers on the Hanover exchange . |
3 | Mm used me two times table . |
4 | My chance came some weeks later , when he visited me one November evening in my little cottage . |
5 | So I phoned her last Nancy phoned me last Friday afternoon before she went on holiday to tell me , and I phoned I was n't sure whether just to sort of play it low key or then I thought , Well I know I really should just give here a wee ring . |
6 | ‘ Me dad told me that story abaht Bobby Peel as a lesson . |
7 | I had invited any of the hospital staff who had cared to come , and my ‘ Dawes Road ’ friend Miss Dorrie Pierce told me that church folk had organized a little wedding tea , and my husband-to-be had ordered and paid for a wedding cake . |
8 | One of the Tory MPs who supported him for the leadership of the party in 1990 told me that Michael Heseltine no longer had a political future . |
9 | ‘ When I was still involved with Vernons , we participated in the introduction of the lotteries in both New York and Sydney , and our experience then told me that football pools would be swept away should lotteries ever come to Britain . |
10 | I then retraced my steps all the way back round to Crib Goch because the position of the sun allowed me renewed photo opportunities from its rim — a rim now 40 feet above me as I lay on a ledge . |
11 | Derek Piggott , my instructor/demonstrator who has many hours on the Chevron , informed me that climb rate can be increased considerably by using thermal activity , and he showed very adequately the power off characteristics of the aircraft by stopping the engine and demonstrating the very impressive 17 to 1 glide ratio . |
12 | 14.45 : Secretary informed me that Class Teacher had written a letter to parent of child with Head Lice to replace one written by Head . |
13 | It showed me that d-i-y decorating and repairs need not always be so technical and difficult — and you do n't have to be a big strapping man to do d-i-y . |
14 | I gave my orders and they led me to a private room and brought me some writing paper and a pen . |
15 | He brought me this type book . |
16 | Dad hated old Gran anyway , we had n't seen her for years and she always sent me Californian Poppy Bath Salts for Christmas . |
17 | Ah , it ju , although , I mean , just when you said that just reminded me that time Hannah ! |
18 | Brian and Tom asked me to get in touch with people for them ; Tom even gave me long phone numbers for his wife in Beirut and daughters in the States . |
19 | Bill gave me that bonus cheque last week , and — ’ |
20 | In desperation your mother gave me some home movies they 'd made over the years , and I watched a chubby five-year-old with a cheeky grin and eyes like pansies . |
21 | She gave me an extra pillow , kept me supplied with boiling bottles , brought me Vichy , and my meals on a little round table , actually produced a bottle of alcool camphre & frictioned me & gave me some lime flower tea before I went to sleep . |
22 | ‘ I met a parson once that was good to me , but he never gave me any treacle tart , just a kind message of 'ope . |
23 | He loved buying me clothes , he bought me twenty-nine ball gowns , one for each year of our marriage and I have them all still , hanging up in my closet . |
24 | Bought me trusted cottage cheese . |