Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] me the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps he thought that , and he 'd given me the slip . |
| 2 | She did n't realise that she 'd given me the greatest gift of all . |
| 3 | ‘ What are you grinning at , Cambridge ? ’ he demanded — he 'd given me the nickname after some reference I made to my own past ; it was an affectionate pan of coals for my head — ‘ It 's perfectly true . |
| 4 | ‘ And , if you 'd given me the chance to finish , you would also have heard me specify ‘ for the general collection ’ . |
| 5 | It would n't have surprised me if you 'd given me the boot there and then . |
| 6 | I said ’ Oh yes ’ and I saw the and he 'd kept the collar on , and of course he 'd given me the one that tossed his head up did n't he ! |
| 7 | As we 're roping up , who should arrive to tie on but the lad who 'd joined me the previous day . |
| 8 | ‘ If you 'd told me the truth about that years ago , none of this wretched business would have happened . ’ |
| 9 | If he had given me the £5000 , under the rules at the time I would have had to donate 15 per cent to the British Board — totally unfair in my view as I had had to find the sponsorship myself . |
| 10 | Alex , who had given me the cigarettes , was Scottish and had been at Lille for three days ; he had deserted from the Military Police in Germany , and thought that French food was nowhere as good as Glaswegian . |
| 11 | With horror I suddenly recognized one of them — it was the man in our village pub who had given me the two pound notes ! and strangely enough , during the journey I heard the prisoners talking about it . |
| 12 | After Mr Brocklehurst had given me the book and left , I felt I had to speak . |
| 13 | He had given me the runaround in his sleep . |
| 14 | She glared at me , dug beneath her cloak and pushed a purse ( much leaner than the one she had given me the night before ) into my hand . |
| 15 | I told him that Jo had given me the cash , though I was suitably vague as to exactly how I recovered her lost property . |
| 16 | I thought Gav had given me the heave-ho for the minute . |
| 17 | Jamila had phoned me the day after Helen and I fucked in Anerley Park to tell me of her decision . |
| 18 | Matthew McIllvanney was not the real boss of Cutwater Yacht Charters ( Bahamas ) Limited , which belonged to a retired theatre owner who now lived in Bermuda and was a long-time friend of my father , a friendship that had secured me the job of skippering Wavebreaker when Masquerade was wrecked , but McIllvanney actually looked after the day-to-day running of the charter business . |
| 19 | Capron had lent me the gun , and suggested the ploy of telling Graham that I had found new evidence that would clear his name of the allegations that he was a Soviet agent . |
| 20 | And my elder brother , he had told me the same thing — ‘ Babi , you are not listening to us so we are not responsible for anything . ’ |
| 21 | I had wept back in the office after Mr Charles had told me the Scharnhorst was steaming up the channel unchallenged . |
| 22 | She had told me the tunnels had now been connected up and the workmen used the subway constantly as a private short cut . |
| 23 | But I was not sure that she had told me the whole truth . |
| 24 | Dod had got me the job and we were using his van , so everything was okay by me . |
| 25 | My readings in Zen , too , had shown me the folly of love , analysed it as an illusion among all the other illusions of this floating and temporary world , an emotion that by its very nature created suffering . |
| 26 | In preparing my speech I recalled ( as the reader also may ) the occasion during my first watch in Tartar when the first lieutenant had shown me the various instruments on the bridge , and that when I asked why one had a canvas cover , he had said , ‘ Oh , that 's the Mountbatten station-keeping gear , and we keep it covered because the captain finds it quite useless . ’ |
| 27 | The attacker could have been either Orlick , or the stranger who had shown me the file . |
| 28 | ‘ An my experience at Imperial had shown me the growing need in this country to find free-standing sites on the outskirts of towns , away from parking problems and inner city violence . |
| 29 | At this juncture , I realized that I had driven close to the point where the boat had landed me the previous evening . |
| 30 | On the album I make the comment that somebody had asked me the same question and I said , ‘ Yep , my left hand 's doing good , right hand 's doing alright , my mind 's as sharp as a tack . |