Example sentences of "[verb] me [adv] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Why do yer want me ter have a key ? ’ |
| 2 | Saying this to me was like holding a red rag to a bull : the more anyone told me not to do a thing , the more I tried to do it . |
| 3 | She told me not to make a fuss over such a small thing . |
| 4 | Well , there was a silly ole cow workin' in the office an' when I went in there she give me a dirty look an' told me ter take a seat . |
| 5 | Now you told me how to start a sentence |
| 6 | Their teeth and jaws can inflict such damage that an expert fisherman once told me never to put a finger in even a dead pikes ' mouth . |
| 7 | And I 'll see you next , let me just make a note of this , on this form , a green form . |
| 8 | Let me just take a coffee down to er . |
| 9 | Now let me just have a look at them thank you . |
| 10 | Let me just have a word with |
| 11 | Okay let's get Even though it 's fantastically interesting but er erm let me just get a bit of feedback from . |
| 12 | it 's , it 's fair do all together anyway I ca n't see me ever painting a car again |
| 13 | The man who had shown me in reached a pewter tankard down from the Welsh dresser and filled it with champagne . |
| 14 | One o'clock — after lunch my mother shows me how to make a cake so that I can have it for tea . |
| 15 | ‘ Watch him , watch him , ’ the Youngest Son would say , pulling me around to see a TV video of a lute player , or a religious song celebration with long lines of men chanting Islamic verses in a sort of mouth music with hand-clapping accompaniment . |
| 16 | There was a sense of the primeval about the place , and it would not have surprised me unduly to see a pterodactyl alight clumsily , or a dinosaur emerge from behind the rocks . |
| 17 | He bustled about with champagne flutes and ice and showed me how to fold a napkin round the neck of a bottle and how to pour without drips . |
| 18 | My father come up to school , he come up there on a bike to see the schoolmaster and get me out to get a load of hay home . |
| 19 | ( 38 ) They taught me how to use a word-processor . |
| 20 | I joined the Moose Jaw Flying Club and took weekly flying lessons from Dick Ryan , the instructor , who taught me how to handle a deHavilland and a Gypsy Moth aircraft . |
| 21 | ‘ He taught me how to tie a package with very little twine and very little paper and still make it look nice , ’ Walton later recalled . |
| 22 | He was shaken , but unhurt , and merely ordered me not to say a word . |
| 23 | The tale that tickled me most concerns a trip to England — a country which Rollins caricatures as a pissing-with-rain hell hole populated entirely by spotty Morrissey-worshipping wimps who eat nothing but fish and potatoes smeared with grease . |
| 24 | " The Koran tells me never to drink a drop of wine . " |
| 25 | ‘ Can you tell me where to take a left ? ’ he asked after a while . |
| 26 | Could you tell me how to hack a game ? |
| 27 | Nobody wished me goodnight , as Zillah took me upstairs to find a bed for me . |
| 28 | His mouth opened and closed while portraits of notables revolved on some sort of belt contraption behind him and my mind strayed to Phil Collins 's story about the time he went up and asked Steve Davis for an autograph : ‘ He did n't even glance at me , just sent me off to get a pen , and then signed his name , still without looking at me . |
| 29 | ‘ They sent me out to do a match report and while I was sitting at a desk typing it up , Captain Bob appeared in the office , attracted by the presence of television cameras . |
| 30 | Then I remembered Stephen Roskill telling me not to believe a word Mountbatten said or claimed unless it was corroborated from other sources . |