Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [verb] me [art] " 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 | I 'm just sorry the whole thing happened and the man who must be embarrassed about this most of all is sponsor Matt Laverty who lent me the bike on Thursday night at practice . ’ |
| 3 | And when I appeal in parishes Sunday by Sunday I am aware that I meet the very people who made me a missionary . |
| 4 | ‘ This came from the man who found me the assassin , ’ he went on . |
| 5 | I scrounged that off Tom McAskill who owes me a favour ’ |
| 6 | I 've arranged with a friend who owes me a favour that I 'll supply the supervisor for medical equipment being flown to Bucharest . |
| 7 | She owes me a letter , thank heavens , somebody who owes me a letter instead of vice versa . |
| 8 | Ps. livingstonii — was one of my great loves in my early Mbuna-keeping days , probably because my male was not only a ‘ big softy ’ who caused me no trouble whatsoever , but also because he became a great pet . |
| 9 | ‘ I met someone today , ’ she said , ‘ who affected me a little as you describe Deanes affecting you . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ You know , Holly , there was a man here once who told me an extraordinary thing about women … ’ |
| 11 | It was Nanny who told me the rotten news . |
| 12 | I called the local council who told me the wasps were best left until the end of the season when they would follow their queen and find somewhere else to live . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Then , a bit later , I got your landlady who told me the bad news . |
| 15 | It was a friend of Francis 's who told me the facts , one woman whom I do remember , though not her face . |
| 16 | ‘ It was an old Pole called Poniatowski , now in exile in Paris , who told me the awful , ghastly , horrifying details . |
| 17 | A lot of discussion went on between J Walter Thompson and my agent 's assistant , who told me the idea was to vary the commercials considerably so as not to bore the general public . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The idea of the vats of the mind reminds me of an occasion when I was walking on the Appalachian Trail in Pennsylvania with some friends , who showed me an oak gall . |
| 20 | The new entrant in this category , and one who interests me a lot , is Fred Couples . |
| 21 | On arrival I have a chat with the Duty Sergeant , who hands me a map with a route or ‘ beat ’ on it . |
| 22 | The head of the family when I first remember them was William Henry Bayles who was Grandmother 's cousin and the father of a lady who taught me a little bit of music . |
| 23 | The person who called me a positivist went on to add that everyone knew that positivism was out of date — another case of refutation by denigration . |
| 24 | Thanks in particular to Alan Bosworth ( London ) who sent me a table of Tandon drives and Mike Newsome ( Worthing ) who took the trouble to fax the details ! |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | I still have n't heard back from the young lady who sent me the Valentine card ; did you really mean it ? |
| 27 | ‘ Only there is a young lady as lodges with me , who asks me every day what Mrs Browning writes and is eager to know for she announces she lives for your poetry . ’ |
| 28 | Someone who tells me an apparently irrelevant fact may well want me to deduce a hidden inference in it , a proposition they prefer not to make explicit . |
| 29 | This appears , for instance , where Margery first rejects Wilekin 's advances , referring to " " houre Loverd , hevene king " " and going straight on to : ( " I have my lord who is my spouse who brought me a virgin to his house … " ) |
| 30 | And it was she who brought me the first evening paper . |