Example sentences of "[conj] he [vb past] me the " in BNC.
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1 | Tom could see this so he gave me the key to his hotel room and told me to have a shower and put on some of his clothes . |
2 | I have looked after his books for forty years and that 's all I know , so he gave me the capital to start and here I am . ’ |
3 | I had arranged for her to see a specialist , and he told me the condition was irreversible , that she would never lose her sight completely but that she would be almost totally blind within a year . |
4 | I was just home from Germany and he asked me the way . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | He signalled me from Pitt Street and I met him and he gave me the peg [ the notebook entry you both make ] . |
8 | ‘ He was very candid and he gave me the benefit of his thinking about a lot of things , ’ Clinton told reporters after leaving the White House . |
9 | I sat up and he gave me the handkerchief out of his pyjama pocket . |
10 | Then I nearly fell over when Hywel walked in because I met him on the mountain and he gave me the eye . ’ |
11 | I smiled at him , and he gave me the trace of a wary smile back . |
12 | And he just stuck the needle in his arm , and he said , ‘ Well , I think the baby 's a mongol ’ , and he showed me the door and that was it . |
13 | Been in the ground more than two hundred years , Dr. Mac said , and he showed me the crack — just like a cracked cup — where his skull had been bashed in . |
14 | 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 . ’ |
15 | The cop was embarrassed , and he handed me the ‘ producer ’ and left . |
16 | I struggled to a sitting position and he handed me the tabloids which had slipped from the end of the bed . |
17 | If he did tell me anything it would be a pack of lies , because obviously the secret would n't be a secret any more if he told me the truth , and he can feel , as I do , that with my increasing maturity he needs all the holds over me he can get ; I 'm not a child any more . |
18 | ‘ But he gave me the car … . ’ |
19 | I do n't quite know why , but he gave me the impression , without uttering more than a few words , that he had much more than superficial knowledge , and an amusing touch of the sardonic as well . |
20 | When he and his brothers left this world , I could not go with him , but he gave me the gift of never growing old . |
21 | I did n't know quite what to answer , but he saved me the trouble . |
22 | As a very small child , I 'd sit and listen while he read me the comic . |
23 | I was shocked when he told me the truth . |
24 | 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 . |
25 | He said he liked us and wanted us to come back , though he liked me the best … |