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 …
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