Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [vb past] me the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One day Tom came to see me and poured out a story which told me the other side of his ambitious , over-achieving self . |
| 2 | The same story you told me the last time we met , ’ she said with a sneer . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It was Nanny who told me the rotten news . |
| 5 | Then , a bit later , I got your landlady who told me the bad news . |
| 6 | It was Li Chao who first suggested I should have a Chinese name and I was both grateful and honoured when in the course of time he gave me the three-character name of Tdong Lao Fu which meant , literally , ‘ Portrait of Happy Man Climbing Mountain ’ . |