Example sentences of "[vb past] me the [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | I took my godson , Dominic Robinson , round my laboratory the other day , which is a physics laboratory , and he enjoyed it immensely and asked a number of questions , and was absolutely intrigued and fascinated by the various bits of wires and plugs and so on like that , and he asked me the sort of questions that I do n't think I would expect sometimes my undergraduates to ask . |
| 2 | I took my godson , Dominic Robinson , round my laboratory the other day , which is a physics laboratory , and he enjoyed it immensely and asked a number of questions , and was absolutely intrigued and fascinated by the various bits of wires and plugs and so on like that , and he asked me the sort of questions that I do n't think I would expect sometimes my undergraduates to ask . |
| 3 | And that led me the think of phetam , and to wonder again if it really did confer super-powers . |
| 4 | Rounds of 67 , 69 , 66 and 65 made me the winner of the Lancome Trophy and a very happy man . |
| 5 | When Stephen told me the name of the submarine captain , I recognized it . |
| 6 | One afternoon , while walking in the gardens of Thornfield , he told me the story of his love-affair in Paris with a French dancer , Céline . |
| 7 | He closed his moist , red-rimmed eyes and , in a voice soft and careful , told me the story of St Tom . |
| 8 | He told me the story of the house . |
| 9 | Tonight Lorenzo gave me the doge 's ring , and told me the history of this lovely old house . |
| 10 | The pater told me his former guardians had frittered away the money his father left him , and Harry told me the amount of the salary Mr Harvey pays him . |
| 11 | Whenever a favourable opportunity offered , Captain McKellar obligingly allowed me the use of a boat , and by this means enabled me to collect nearly all the species of this interesting family that we fell in with … ’ |
| 12 | She handed me the sheet of grey paper with its synoptic chart which had been transmitted from Florida just a few moments before . |
| 13 | He handed me the square of now sodden sheet . |
| 14 | He just handed me the photograph of Sam , then took the letters and walked away . |
| 15 | He showed me the location of Bentwaters in the old AA Book of the Road I always carried and then bought the two ounces of Red from me at four times what I 'd agreed to pay for it . |
| 16 | And Managing Director Richard Doyle-Davidson once showed me the ceiling of his office where water was seeping in . |
| 17 | Nor were the books that Edward showed me the kind of thing I would normally have read — not , at least , as anything more than a casual browse among the dustier nooks of human eccentricity . |
| 18 | She acknowledged this with a raised thumb , but when she showed me the assortment of charts on the bed-table pushed against the wall she gave a thumbs-down over his fluid-intake . |
| 19 | He showed me the tape of the race … ’ |
| 20 | He nodded politely and showed me the palm of a gloved hand . |
| 21 | He showed me the page of the book — the passage had been furiously scored with a pen nib . |
| 22 | He showed me the journal of the Mountain Club of South Africa , which included an article detailing the attractions of climbing in the UK . |
| 23 | ‘ My father taught me the value of manners and being a gentleman . |
| 24 | He taught me the lesson of supply and demand for , although quite willing to swap , he demanded twelve of my Anstie spares for the one card . |
| 25 | I did n't care if she called me the son of Frankenstein . |
| 26 | Kathleen offered me the use of her office telephone and so , one morning , I settled down to make some enquiries . |
| 27 | There was a story that she had once been married to a hollow cheeked Indian tour guide called Willy Wither who had taken us up the river and touchingly offered me the use of his very expensive camera ( ‘ A holiday without a camera is a terrible thing . ’ ) , |
| 28 | ‘ I 'd only been at Rangers five minutes when he offered me the use of his villa in Florida . |
| 29 | One management even offered me the role of Fairy Godmother in Cinderella . |
| 30 | It took me the rest of the day to clean up . |