Example sentences of "he [verb] me [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 He made me a desk with a roll-top and secret drawers and a matching leather stool ; a huge Tudor doll 's house with leaded windows and roses round the door , filled with hand-carved furniture ; a bow-windowed shop with a sign saying ‘ Lynne 's Store ’ and shelves stocked with dozens of tiny tins of Heinz products — it had taken him a year to cut out all the miniature Heinz logos from magazine adverts , which he had stuck to one-inch lengths of silver-painted dowelling .
2 It has been my pleasure and privilege to have known since 1967 when he made me a member of the Labour Party .
3 No , , it 's just a but he was , you know , I was fairly slow , and then I went on , I followed erm , I ended up slightly , as well , erm , then I went to college up to the age of eighteen , erm , and as soon as I finished college he made me a department manager .
4 He made me a monster , and in his own image , I guess ! ’
5 He made me an outcast at Old Trafford ’
6 ‘ You realise he hates me every bit as much as he hates your father ? ’
7 He passed me a map and a brochure he had picked up at the hotel .
8 And he passed me a pistol .
9 He passed me a note that was propped behind a bottle of Long John .
10 Ordering fresh coffee from the waitress who came to take my order , he passed me the Guardian and picked up the Sun .
11 He passed me the receiver , saying unnecessarily , ‘ It 's Ronnie Curzon . ’
12 When in May , six months later , he came to Paris and took me to the Tour d'Argent for lunch , he passed me an envelope .
13 He sold me a car .
14 He sold me the caravan .
15 He asked me a lot of questions which I did not understand .
16 And he asked me a lot of very pertinent questions which seemed to me more than idle curiosity .
17 He asked me a lot of suspicious questions , and eventually I was shown to what must have been the poorest room in his house , over the kitchen , facing a hen-run .
18 He asked me a lot of questions about myself — what I wanted to do with my life , that sort of thing …
19 I was just home from Germany and he asked me the way .
20 I took my godson , Dominic Robinson , round my laboratory the other day , which is a physics laboratory , and he enjoyed it immensely and asked a number of questions , and was absolutely intrigued and fascinated by the various bits of wires and plugs and so on like that , and he asked me the sort of questions that I do n't think I would expect sometimes my undergraduates to ask .
21 I took my godson , Dominic Robinson , round my laboratory the other day , which is a physics laboratory , and he enjoyed it immensely and asked a number of questions , and was absolutely intrigued and fascinated by the various bits of wires and plugs and so on like that , and he asked me the sort of questions that I do n't think I would expect sometimes my undergraduates to ask .
22 He go , he got me , he got me a t-shirt , hat erm he got me trousers , a wicked pair of ragamuffin trousers .
23 He got me a ring a few years ago .
24 And he got me a house at , two shilling a week , and eightpence for coal .
25 He got me a lot of stuff man !
26 As a very small child , I 'd sit and listen while he read me the comic .
27 ‘ The first time Jimmy Patino , who represented family interests on the board , came to a meeting , he read me the riot act about how of every £1 I was talking about , 51p was owned by the family , and of that 51p , 25p of it was his .
28 Yes , and he did say when he phoned me a night or two ago that you might
29 That 's alright , I 'll let you drive me all the way round once so , he owes me a quid you see .
30 He drew me a map of the route with a stick in the sand .
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