Example sentences of "[coord] [vb infin] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | My men , whom I had instructed to keep close together and sing from the time they left the camp until they joined me on the forest road , were not due for an hour and a half , and during this time it was more than likely that the tigress would break cover and try to stalk or rush me . |
| 2 | I have been convinced for a long time that people could not love , accept or respect me for the person I am , only for the amazing amount of exercise I can do . |
| 3 | I began to feel myself being pulled further and further under the water , I screamed and swore but nobody seemed to hear or believe me and then my head went under and all I remember is a feeling of despair as I squeezed the tree trunk only to find that it simply crumbled in my hands . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'll meet you secretly , if you promise not to watch or follow me , ’ said Nancy . |
| 5 | ‘ Clare did n't see or hear me coming . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm sure the manager knows that if I keep playing the way I am then he 's either going to have to let me go or put me in . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm sure the manager knows that if I keep playing the way I am then he 's either going to have to let me go or put me in . ’ |
| 8 | The only people who can hurt or compliment me are my friends |
| 9 | [ She ] … will not interpret my sharing of my pain as an assault , she will not turn away or urge me to be strong , or murmur some expression of sympathy or swallow hard because there is , finally , nothing to say to someone who is beyond comfort though not beyond caring . |
| 10 | In the meantime , I want you all to try and build me a decent-sized castle , right ? ’ |
| 11 | For ten days I spent all my spare time in a question-and-answer session till the experience started to confuse and hurt me , also — much to my horror — defile me . |
| 12 | Oh if only the ground would proverbially open and swallow me . |
| 13 | I just do n't see how you can kiss and cuddle me in the department when nothing at all is going on between us , and then just as soon as there is , you switch it all off like a blasted tap ! ’ |
| 14 | Normally I 'd get up and make me and Marie a cup of coffee , but there ai n't no point now , so I stay in bed . |
| 15 | Oh dear , he thought , she 's going to cry and make me look a bastard in front of all the doctors and nurses . |
| 16 | ‘ Would you like me to dig too , or will you stop and make me a cup of coffee ? ’ |
| 17 | Do n't try and make me out to be some kind of embittered nut compensating for an unsatisfactory sex-life . ’ |
| 18 | They always do that , the saucy wenches , they like to tease and make me beg for them to come back . |
| 19 | Oh well of course that 's making me have a parched throat you know , so you 're gon na have to ma , go and make me a cup of tea ! |
| 20 | ‘ Now , if you set up a decent practice , somewhere in Belgravia , instead of this … slum , you could come and treat me . |
| 21 | The women would look up and congratulate me and encourage me to ‘ go on , go on , you can , you can ’ . |
| 22 | Erm I 've been off work in excess of five years now er add my income has been very very small and whatever award I get will never go ahead and compensate me or my wife for what I 've been through . |
| 23 | ‘ Perhaps I can shoot two or three , ’ I said to myself , ‘ but then they will kill and eat me . ’ |
| 24 | Erm , okay the bogie man would come and eat me up . |
| 25 | I want you to love and desire me with the same degree of passion that Lucia loved and desired my namesake . |
| 26 | She recalled his saying , ‘ I want you to love and desire me with the same degree of passion that Lucia loved and desired my namesake . ’ |
| 27 | Do n't sit there and bait me ! ’ |
| 28 | Very rich men and women were going to come and patronize me : insult me . |
| 29 | So , I 'd an appointment in town at the hairdressers and for a legwax and that you do n't want to let yourself go I do n't want him to get back and catch me with my knickers down and my nail varnish all chipped … |
| 30 | Could you go down and catch me ? |