Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] me [vb infin] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The silence that enclosed me made me feel the world had come to an end , that the trees had not yet been informed but soon would be , and would fall on to the stone and thorn , the heather and the fern , skeletons to be picked over , not by vultures but by time . |
| 2 | It 's no exaggeration to say that I owe my start in politics to the G M B because after having worked , as Dick said , for the G M B for a number of years it was the support of the G M B which helped me win the nomination for Chesterly Street and in the early eighties I can remember when er the Labour Party was going through a difficult period it was officials and members of the G M B who were a steadying influence in my constituency , as they have been ever since . |
| 3 | She made me sign the paper . ’ |
| 4 | ( 148 ) If it were not for an old professor who made me read the classics I would have been stymied . |
| 5 | I thought it would have got better by itself — it was my son who made me call the doctor ’ |
| 6 | I could never cook myself a meal , even with such complete mod. cons , and Hellen , who helped me arrange the furniture , pictures and scrolls , would tease me as ‘ the eternal bachelor ’ who could not fry an egg or boil water without burning it . |
| 7 | ‘ You helped me buy the land for the new town when I first came to Haiti . |
| 8 | ‘ If I 'd been bad he made me copy the notices and labels in cases . |
| 9 | Every time I visited him he made me polish the dust off the bottle , so it came as a huge relief when we were finally able to open it . |
| 10 | It made me recall the list of supposed super-powers of Ardakkeans . |
| 11 | Then one of the others came and he helped me rehang the curtain and move the damaged screen . ’ |
| 12 | He helped me shift the tea-chests |
| 13 | Bolinger ( 1974 : 75 ) presents the difference between ( 15a ) and ( 15b ) below as one of " immediate " vs " mediate " assistance : ( 15a ) He helped me climb the stairs by propping me up with his shoulder ( He climbed with me ) . |
| 14 | yes last week he helped me turn the garage out he took all the rubbish left over from the tip down to the tip . |
| 15 | This morning you mysteriously slide me a note telling me to ask you out and now you claim I 'm not really a journalist even though my credentials were thoroughly checked out by your plant manager before he let me near the place . |
| 16 | That was the first time he let me see the extent of the bitterness that was poisoning him . |
| 17 | ‘ Why do you think he let me take the firm over ? |
| 18 | Harvey looked doubtful , but he let me take the gun from him . |