Example sentences of "he [verb] me the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He intimidates me the first time I ever talked to him was in the pub |
| 2 | He told me , he told me the other night . |
| 3 | I remember him taking me for a drive in his car when he told me the joyful news about his forthcoming marriage to Rosemary and feeling so happy that he was going to be happy . |
| 4 | He shows me the clean pink palms of his hands , and he raises his bushy eyebrows . |
| 5 | He showed me the cunning way in which Jim Wilson , the ship 's chandler , had hinged the top of the fuselage so that a patient could be lowered into the plane on a stretcher once the second seat had been removed to give the extra length . |
| 6 | He showed me the personal/Impersonal and the Individual/Group columns all drawn out as in figure 1 but the last column was missing . |
| 7 | He showed me the big green gabled home of Ireland 's Minister of Finance . |
| 8 | I paid the hostel owner three thousand intis for the last time and he handed me the neat slip , carefully signed and stamped twice : ‘ Hostal America PAGADO . ’ |
| 9 | He handed me the seventeenth-century pamphlet , which I had left on a table on the landing . |
| 10 | ‘ But he sees me the other way — he spoke of another photograph — he was telling me that … ’ |
| 11 | I guess he taught me the right way , because after a couple of years , when I heard something , I knew what it was before any intellectual wheels were turning in my head . |
| 12 | He rang me the next day , was very enthusiastic , but apologised that for the following two years he was only doing German opera — but that he would remember me ! |
| 13 | He sent me the first Education sentimentale ; I was not greatly impressed , but how could I not praise it ? |
| 14 | To mark his disapproval of my doing so he gives me the wrong ticket and some change , of which the amount , as far as I can see , bears no relation to any previous transaction between us . |
| 15 | He said he liked us and wanted us to come back , though he liked me the best … |
| 16 | It was Li Chao who first suggested I should have a Chinese name and I was both grateful and honoured when in the course of time he gave me the three-character name of Tdong Lao Fu which meant , literally , ‘ Portrait of Happy Man Climbing Mountain ’ . |
| 17 | He gave me the good news that Elizabeth and Ernest were safe and well . |
| 18 | He gave me the inside scoop on the Biggest Wave story : the thirty-five-foot mountain he 'd ridden on 5 January 1985 . |
| 19 | It was then he gave me the old papers I have read to you . |
| 20 | He gave me the most trouble by returning more potential Pathfinders than any other CO : hut not only — aircrew he walked about Gransden with a wad of railway warrants in his pocket , and anyone who offended got one on the spot . |
| 21 | He watches me the whole time . |
| 22 | He pushed me the other night . |