Example sentences of "me [adj] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She brought me some the other day and they were ever so tasty . " |
| 2 | Of the programmes I 've watched-not all of them , let me confess-only the third , on the dhow in the Gulf seemed to enter into a wholly unknown , and dangerous environment , a way of life I could never have imagined . |
| 3 | ‘ I spoke to him on Sunday night and he wished me all the best , while I thanked him . |
| 4 | He 'd come across for a coffee , wish me all the best . |
| 5 | McEwan said : ‘ Ferguson wished me all the best and offered to help me if he could . |
| 6 | He 's always telling me all the best people are born in April . |
| 7 | Oh , they were very kind , they bought me all the right things , nice toys , I agree , but always there was this feeling , well , obligation , they gave me things but something was always expected in return . |
| 8 | Well that happened and er I was man and er they er brought me all the odd jobs that was going about and they used to go down the warehouse and er there was a fellow there , well a woman more than anything , know 'd where every thing was and in no time at all they showed me where the things were and er I er , young , it was in my memory , and in no time at all the men in the shop used to come and ask me to get them something from out the warehouse for this and that and the other . |
| 9 | Better leave showing me all the good reasons for hanging you out of hand . |
| 10 | Now I want you to tell me all the other facts that you know . |
| 11 | The thing is my father was a journalist , and he taught me all the fucking tricks . |
| 12 | The programme summed up for me all the human frustrations , hopelessness and despair . |
| 13 | He identified so closely with this work — for what seem to me all the wrong reasons — that his interpretation tended to tremble on the edge of bathos . |
| 14 | I said , that if it was not troublesome and presuming too much , I would request him to tell me all the little circumstances of his life ; what schools he attended , when he came to Oxford , when he came to London , &c. , &c. , He did not disapprove of my curiosity as to these particulars ; but said , ‘ They 'll come out by degrees as we talk together . ’ ’ |
| 15 | He was calling me all the time-awful things . |
| 16 | ‘ It belonged to me all the same , ’ Mrs Grindlewood-Gryke pointed out with the authority of a monarch claiming a sturgeon . |
| 17 | ‘ Rather him than me all the same , ’ said Jefferson , the Australian . |
| 18 | Mike wrote his own letter but showed it to me all the same . |