Example sentences of "me a [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | They 've given me a theatre for a season . |
| 2 | give me a bubble gum . |
| 3 | He sent me a computer program he had written called Equalizer . |
| 4 | There was one lad who was a real bully , and he says , ‘ Give me a hair cut . ’ |
| 5 | Next to me a girl eating a box of liquorice torpedoes . |
| 6 | Dolly , healthily peckish , said , ‘ I do n't know how you can be so good to me , nursin' me ankle , givin' me your bed , and feedin' me as well , and me a girl that 's done pinchin' and nickin' . ’ |
| 7 | They sent me a girl in her mid-twenties who was petite and reasonably attractive . |
| 8 | The constant view of so much hair excited in me a love of nature , wild nature , that has never waned . |
| 9 | ‘ When I was fired at , he missed and that gave me a love of life . ’ |
| 10 | I mean my belief is that if Standard Life and M and G ca n't show me a profit on a , a good managed fund , I doubt that anybody in a another institute is going to do any better . |
| 11 | Yes , and my parents had booked the audition for the Central School and found me a bed-sit in Swiss Cottage and being completely naive it was assumed that this was where I would be going . |
| 12 | Nobody 's ever offered me a bribe . |
| 13 | Unknown to me a honeybee had made a hive in this part of the wall and not long afterwards I became aware of an angry bee searching frantically for the entrance to its hive . |
| 14 | She used to make me a plum duff , the old currant duffs and anything like that my mother would make for us . |
| 15 | Neumann , conveniently , attributes to me a generalization I did not make then proceeds to refute it . |
| 16 | — With Mr. Gould all this is very different — he has sufficient to live on , whether his subscribers pay or not , & can well afford the innumerable little expenses of printing — but for poor I — I have just nine and twenty times resolved to give up Parrots & all — & should certainly have done so — had not my good genius with vast reluctance just 9 & 20 times set me a going again . ’ |
| 17 | Doctor Turner swears by a universal prophylactic of gin and guava juice , offering me a swig from his thermos . |
| 18 | ‘ Piss on your XPDs , ’ I croak , ‘ and give me a swig of that fizzy water fast or I 'll disintegrate messily all over your in-tray . ’ |
| 19 | She handed me a stack of forms . |
| 20 | Oh everything , they give me a stack of batteries , they told me to change the batteries after every three tapes |
| 21 | In fact I 've often said that if you show me a system which does n't have a performance problem then you 've shown me a system which is a failure . |
| 22 | In fact I 've often said that if you show me a system which does n't have a performance problem then you 've shown me a system which is a failure . |
| 23 | Yes , and he did say when he phoned me a night or two ago that you might |
| 24 | The beautiful blue groundwash is so sensuously placid and dreamlike ( almost aquatic ) , and the simple but elegant forms and lines animate the scene , producing in me a state of quiet limbo . |
| 25 | It suits me a treat ! |
| 26 | Now I said to Ken that 'll be your christmas present to me in nineteen years and that 'll do me a treat cos that 's really worth it . |
| 27 | Give me a cruise missile will you ? |
| 28 | You go to all the trouble of finding me a bed in a night shelter and you then get me so drunk they 'll refuse point-blank to let me in ! ’ |
| 29 | He rang up the hospital and got me a bed for the next week . |
| 30 | ‘ And that was not a hint for you to offer me a bed for the night , Miss Rose Fenemore . |