Example sentences of "and [pron] [vb past] me the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And you gave me the best ! ’ |
| 2 | for Christmas , and it was delicious the way her mother made it so she started it with me writing it down , see , and she told me the ingredients and then she said you brews the ginger I thought |
| 3 | I a lot , cos I remember erm when Claire was I got a really formal invitation to something and I asked Claire how you were supposed to reply and she told me the exact wording of how you should reply and I just looked at her I looked at her and I said I 'm not bloody writing that . |
| 4 | It was of course my mother , and she asked me the same questions as my neighbour . |
| 5 | There was a slight delay as she read it and then her head slowly turned in my direction and she gave me the biggest grin I 'd ever seen . |
| 6 | And she gave me the immortal reply , ‘ No , I 'm Heather , but wo n't I do ? ’ |
| 7 | And I said I said so I told her the registration and she gave me the room number but she said . |
| 8 | Well I 'll never forget when we were younger , we had erm some Americans living across the road and they invited us er somehow I was in the kitchen , they were going to give me lunch and she gave me the most enormous |
| 9 | And she bought me the glass bowl . |
| 10 | Even so , I did meet one girl at Binbrook who had knitted a whole twin set from darning wool cut into short lengths , weaving all the ends together as she knitted ! — and she showed me the finished product to prove it . |
| 11 | A group of lads talked loudly and one gave me the eye |
| 12 | ‘ One train a week and they told me the wrong day . |
| 13 | When she decided , with the rest of the children , to go to Waco Monday and they told me the Sunday . |
| 14 | Most of the people I went with took mountain bikes and they envied me the Pioneer as I sped along with far less effort that they had to use . |
| 15 | And they sold me The Last Boy Scout . |
| 16 | I 'd been to see my great-aunt 's solicitors in Glasgow and they gave me the keys . |
| 17 | Not only was Pumblechook 's elbow in my eye , but I was n't allowed to speak , and they gave me the worst pieces of meat . |
| 18 | ‘ And they gave me the job . ’ |
| 19 | I had arranged for her to see a specialist , and he told me the condition was irreversible , that she would never lose her sight completely but that she would be almost totally blind within a year . |
| 20 | I was just home from Germany and he asked me the way . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | He signalled me from Pitt Street and I met him and he gave me the peg [ the notebook entry you both make ] . |
| 24 | ‘ He was very candid and he gave me the benefit of his thinking about a lot of things , ’ Clinton told reporters after leaving the White House . |
| 25 | I sat up and he gave me the handkerchief out of his pyjama pocket . |
| 26 | Then I nearly fell over when Hywel walked in because I met him on the mountain and he gave me the eye . ’ |
| 27 | I smiled at him , and he gave me the trace of a wary smile back . |
| 28 | And he just stuck the needle in his arm , and he said , ‘ Well , I think the baby 's a mongol ’ , and he showed me the door and that was it . |
| 29 | Been in the ground more than two hundred years , Dr. Mac said , and he showed me the crack — just like a cracked cup — where his skull had been bashed in . |
| 30 | I paid the hostel owner three thousand intis for the last time and he handed me the neat slip , carefully signed and stamped twice : ‘ Hostal America PAGADO . ’ |