Example sentences of "who [verb] me the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | It was De Gaulle who asked me the dumb question in the van-his condescension brought him down to what he imagined was my level . |
2 | It was Nanny who told me the rotten news . |
3 | At one station we were stopped for several hours alongside a troop train on which I discovered the Reverend R.H.L. Slater , now enrolled as an army chaplain , who told me the comforting news that my wife and three children had got away from Myitkyina a day or two earlier . |
4 | ‘ It was an old Pole called Poniatowski , now in exile in Paris , who told me the awful , ghastly , horrifying details . |
5 | To start with I went along to visit local parent , Mrs Audrey Durrant , who told me the main problem she faces as the mother of a ten year old dyslexic boy . |
6 | Then , a bit later , I got your landlady who told me the bad news . |
7 | The project scientist who sent me the disappointed and sceptical account of all this said that there were shrieks from the store room , but not of success . |
8 | And it was she who brought me the first evening paper . |