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 . |