Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] do " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clare Short , Labour MP for Ladywood , who raised the issue in the Commons in January , said : ‘ I think the West Midlands Police were trying to brush the matter under the carpet and it was only pressure from MPs and the media that made them do anything . ’ |
| 2 | My soldiers were guarding the master copies of the very instructions that made them do the guarding . |
| 3 | ‘ The pleasure of being top , and nothing else , except the interest of my father , made me do such homework as I did in the evenings … . |
| 4 | He made me do terrible things , things with animals , for instance . |
| 5 | ‘ My parents made me do it . |
| 6 | See what you made me do ? |
| 7 | Well , it was his fault , it was him stealing my money , he made me do it , Officer , I 'm not guilty , M' lud . |
| 8 | ‘ S/he made me do it ! ’ |
| 9 | Asked how personal development had been affected , responses reveal improvements in self-confidence , social skills and aspirations : ‘ it has given me extra confidence to speak at meetings , e.g. community council , community association meetings ’ ; ‘ it has brought out skills I never new I had ’ ; ‘ I have learned to work closer with people since I joined , which is a new experience for me , and become more tolerant of people 's attitudes and ways ’ ; ‘ I am more aware of my own attitude towards my group ’ ; ‘ it has given me more confidence in my own ability to learn new skills ’ ; ‘ made me do things that I thought I was not capable of doing ’ . |
| 10 | My earliest memories of being abused are of going into a neighbour 's house when I was five or six and getting money for what he made me do . |
| 11 | But he made me do it , I did n't want to do it , but he he he made me do it . |
| 12 | But he made me do it , I did n't want to do it , but he he he made me do it . |
| 13 | My father knew I would n't do biology , but he made me do chemistry and only a small amount of mathematics . |
| 14 | Oh , I do n't know what made me do that , rotten thing to do , that was . |
| 15 | ‘ I ca n't believe you made me do that ! ’ |
| 16 | I did n't have to do any of these crazy things they made me do . |
| 17 | This recalls the habitual remark of youngsters admitting to some misdemeanor performed under the influence of another : He made me do it ! , which would be significantly different from He forced me to do it which implies an action one was pushed into by means of force rather than one performed under coercion . |
| 18 | It was 's fault , he made me do it . |
| 19 | Now look what you made me do ! ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Now look what you made me do ! ’ |
| 21 | We can make another baby , Herta and I. If I wept copiously both before and after , she let me do it , or try it , but I am impotent and do n't even go to the whores any more . |
| 22 | Yeah we bought you the cartons in the picture , Anthy let me do your pyjamas , you know they 're there , you know that , what nanny got you ? |
| 23 | It helped me do all sorts of things I would n't have done otherwise . ’ |
| 24 | ( 217b ) * I don't/did n't let him do it , but he does/did it . |
| 25 | He is still very young and has only played for one season ( Wilko let him do a degree first , a 1st in chemisty ) . |
| 26 | You could give him a book token let him do his own . |
| 27 | I remember before he became Prime Minister he was in charge of the Conservative re-think where I helped him do a lot of that work and I think he enjoyed that very much . |
| 28 | ‘ What Maurice did — what you helped him do — was wrong . |
| 29 | What shou 'd he do ? … |
| 30 | ‘ What 'd he do — rob a bank ? ’ |