Example sentences of "have [adv] [verb] me [art] " in BNC.

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1 I was so grateful that somebody has finally told me the reason why I was miscarrying . ’
2 Jane Daly has just given me a copy of the new Capital Equipment RTP forms .
3 Unfortunately I am obliged to terminate at this stage , because someone has just passed me a note saying that the band has to depart at 11 pm , and it is now 10.30 .
4 I in fact I 've just been shown a different copy of this , Gwen has just shown me a different copy and the colour 's is totally different , its a very , very poor erm print and , when I was looking at this through my book , the background was very strange and I felt that almost had been painted by a totally different artist , but having seen Gwin 's , er Gwen 's
5 ‘ Which is why the lady has already promised me the pleasure of her company tonight .
6 Ken has often told me the story of how Jackie came to drive single-seaters : how he had lost a driver in F3 ( Teddy Mayer 's brother Timmy ) and how John Cooper had reported to him ( belatedly , Ken says , because he 'd already spotted Jackie ) that there was some tiny Scot going around whom he absolutely must sign .
7 He has now given me a further , and most embarrassing proof of his confidence by asking me to take charge of his son and heir , aged two-and-a-half months , for a short time .
8 The governess here , Miss Lambert , has kindly taught me a little .
9 Christian Aid has agreed to my taking three months ' unpaid leave , and the English-Speaking Union of the Commonwealth has kindly awarded me a bursary to cover costs of travel .
10 Mr. Green has again promised me the pencilled sketches of Dove 's Nest .
11 Fate , thought Charlotte , gazing innocently back into his admiring , devoted , humiliated and furious face , has certainly given me the upper hand of you , my boy !
12 Mrs Gracie gave me some ; he has never paid me a penny .
13 ‘ I think you 'd better tell me the whole story , Charles . ’
14 ‘ You 'd better leave me the matches , then . ’
15 You 'd only seen me a couple of times , and then you were n't exactly falling over yourself to speak to me ! ’ she spat back .
16 Ah no he was , he , he would n't sit on his chair cos he 'd just called me an arsehole and I goes oh sit down Greg !
17 I knew that they 'd still written me a , a second letter , like asking permission to send it through the erm what do you call it ?
18 In fact I broadcast that material , but I cut it into three programmes , and I , I cut in the questions I would have asked if he 'd actually given me a chance to ask them .
19 If you 'd known at the beginning that I knew your parents you would n't have even given me the time of day .
20 ‘ Well , I think you had better tell me the whole story .
21 You had better give me a few days .
22 " You had better show me the sites , " Matthew said , " and I 'll see what I can suggest . "
23 He had already sent me the Strachey book , The Theory and Practice of Marxism , and Spender 's , the original title of which was The Approach to Communism , seemed to me to go with it very well .
24 I think you 've just cost me a fortune today .
25 So you 're feeling relaxed and comfortable and good because you 're telling me , you know , what a great tennis player I am and I really enjoy it , you 've just given me a couple of names that I 'll either make a note of or I 'll say that 's interesting cos I actually deal with Joe on a business relationship anyway erm maybe we could meet some other people from the tennis club , self employed people , professional people such as yourself , who might be interested in looking at financial planning but today I 'm more interested in talking about you Bill , erm we 'll come back to them a bit later if I may so let's press on .
26 I 'm supposed to think that you 've just given me the OK . ’
27 Flaubert was delighted with the story : ‘ Do you know , Lapierre , you 've just given me the subject of a novel , the counterpart of my Bovary , a Bovary of high society .
28 Erm you know it cos you 've just told me the
29 Stephen had just granted me the barony , and I decided ‘ t was time I had a wife .
30 He looked across at me with watery , beseeching eyes as if he had just told me the entire , intolerable story of his life .
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