Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] me what [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His profound sense of fatalism becomes apparent as early as the last paragraph of his very first speech : ‘ … every few years there is still a case , and as the parties tell me what the trouble is , … the thought comes in that … another lawyer , quite differently dressed , heard the same complaint and sat there as powerless as I , and watched it run its bloody course . ’ |
| 2 | The girl asks me what the woman is singing about . |
| 3 | ‘ But Mother went scarlet when the boss 's wife told me what a nice suit I was wearing , and I told her that Mother had spent nearly all night making it . ’ |
| 4 | On one U-day last winter , a short-sighted neighbour asked me what the pretty flowers were . |
| 5 | ‘ You would n't believe how many of our employees told me what a good deal they got on a car or a boat because they adopted Karrass ' strategies ’ says an executive of a major oil company . |