Example sentences of "[to-vb] me the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She came to see me the first night I was home , and we sat on the verandah , rather tongue-tied after such a long time , saying stupid things like : " Did you have a good trip ? " |
| 2 | He came to see me the other evening . |
| 3 | I had someone come to see me the other week from the R S P C A because they said this cat was held forty foot in the air |
| 4 | ‘ You set up this whole thing deliberately , just to cause me the maximum amount of aggravation , did n't you ? |
| 5 | I am hoping to meet some of the children before the Marathon and when the pain barrier hits me at around 20 miles I will only need to think of the courage and bravery of these young children to give me the extra incentive I need to finish the race . |
| 6 | In the end I got them to give me the first aid outfit and fixed myself up . |
| 7 | In a modest attempt to amend the damage accumulated over centuries by this pernicious little fiction , I asked the children to give me the Other Version , particularly Eve 's , but Adam 's or God 's as well if they preferred . |
| 8 | ‘ Or worse still , if he was going to have her killed , it would be a nice tidy thing to give me the same treatment , and Joel too . |
| 9 | ‘ Are you going to give me the macho caveman act ? |
| 10 | Unfortunately he 's reactionary enough not to accord me the same freedom ! ’ |
| 11 | I wanted to put it all behind me , but every time I tried the TV footage would come back to haunt me the following week . |
| 12 | The progress of this story was to show me the essential solitariness of other people , people whom I had not thought of as being solitary before . |
| 13 | It was in this book that he was able to show me the first reference to the Santa Maria . |
| 14 | He pulled up at the bridge and got out to show me the concrete cancer . |
| 15 | No , just coming back home to show me the flaming car , and that 's what sa I did n't but I feel dead awful really , but I did n't jump up and down |
| 16 | Now I want you to tell me the important part — why the hell are you so desperate that you 'll go to this extent in order to get your hands on the bequest ? |
| 17 | If you choose me then you have to tell me the whole truth — who your accomplice is . |