Example sentences of "[verb] me he [verb] just " in BNC.
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1 | I remember some years ago being called by a man who told me he had just now heard things for the first time in the Beethoven Fifth . |
2 | When I complained to one of the newspaper 's senior editors , he told me he had just rejected an article highly critical of me and ray position . |
3 | Barney sniggered then continued , ‘ Selwyn Hopkins told me he has just bought a motorbike . |
4 | When trying to guess where someone went when I missed him at the airport I do not imagine his thoughts , I try to imagine his situation as someone like him would see it , and think ; if he tells me he has just learned he has cancer I may hear in imagination the doctor 's grave voice , but I do not imagine the fear , I feel the chill of it ; if I see him cut his finger I do not imagine the pain as something objective before my ‘ mind 's eye ’ , either I look on as though the knife were cutting through cheese or I incipiently wince . |
5 | He only mentioned his wife to tell me he 'd just bought her something new to wear and he tried to give me the impression his brother-in-law was something of a poor fish because he could n't make ends meet . ’ |