Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [verb] me [vb infin] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'll give you my home telephone number , and if you do n't find them until after I 've returned , and you 're not successful in persuading Suzie to go back to England , all I ask is that you let me know where I can contact her . |
| 2 | I waited to see her face tense as if it was an airtight balloon on a stick ; never mind that it made me choke somewhere in my chest . |
| 3 | He said : ‘ When we play like that it makes me wonder why we are in the wrong half of the table . |
| 4 | I just change the format a little bit here and there so it makes me write differently . |
| 5 | ‘ If ye let me go now , ’ Anton said , ‘ I wo n't tell anybody . ’ |
| 6 | And she made me feel about two inches high |
| 7 | Then , to me : ‘ We went to Orkney last summer , and she made me crawl in through a ghastly tunnel into some underground charnel-house . |
| 8 | ‘ Now get out of sight until you see me come back . |
| 9 | ‘ She calmed him down and said : ‘ If you let me go outside I 'll get the keys ’ . |
| 10 | ‘ OK , sir , ’ replied the boy , ‘ if you let me telephone home my mother will fax it to you . ’ |
| 11 | I give you my word that I wo n't attempt to get away if you let me know when the police are called in . ’ |
| 12 | Another time I went to St Kew primary , which is really small and right out in the middle of nowhere , and they made me feel really welcome . |
| 13 | I could feel it , and they let me join in . |
| 14 | It was n't until they made me squat down and then taped my wrists to my ankles and stuck me in a large sack that I accepted that it was n't going to be a truck , but a car-boot move . |
| 15 | ‘ I pay the rent and he lets me sleep here . ’ |
| 16 | and he made me feel right guilty yesterday I , I had to buy a packet about three o'clock , so I did n't have any until three o'clock and then talk to the cat and I thought no it 's no good , Margaret I 'll have to hide this packet up |
| 17 | Anyway I smiled and I wheedled and he let me be without the gag and he let me look round . |
| 18 | But I called her my girlfriend , and it made me feel pretty good . |
| 19 | You needed me and it made me feel so good ! |
| 20 | So we had a video , and a special celebration dinner , and it made me feel really great . |
| 21 | There was a faint perfume , too , clinging to the photo , and it made me feel very homesick . |
| 22 | I can do all those nice things in Jan , Feb and March , and not to mention when I get home tearing my garden to pieces , that 's gone to pot , which is as well , because it does n't make it , see , see one thing I find about coming down here , I see the really smarter shops than I would unless I were in Norwich and it makes me realise still after this , I do n't crave for the things in shops . |
| 23 | I should n't have asked that , Florence Ames thought , he does n't care to be questioned about his mother and it makes me seem too familiar , too prying . |
| 24 | But now that items are no longer individually labelled we , the public , have to go by the shelf price , and it makes me wonder how many other prices are incorrectly displayed . |
| 25 | As I think he might not let me have my half-hour in midmorning if he let me go out earlier , I do n't insist . ) |
| 26 | erm and what makes me suspect not is that Chine Chinese record keeping for many many centuries had been very thorough of course because it 's the basis of the imperial taxation system , so my guess is that the figures are probably fairly reliable . |
| 27 | But she makes me laugh though . |
| 28 | I have to dress in my sweaty , dirty clothes and go back down to the kitchen , grumbling while she makes me a coffee , and I complain about my wet boots and she gives me a fresh pair of William 's socks to wear and I put them on and drink my coffee and whine about never being allowed to spend the night and tell her how just once I 'd like to wake up here in the morning , and have a nice , civilised breakfast with her , sitting on the sunny balcony outside the bedroom windows , but she makes me sit down while she laces my boots up , then takes my coffee cup off me and sends me out the back door and says I 've got two minutes before she arms the alarm and puts the infrared lights on stand-by so I have to go back the way I came , over the estate wall and through the wood and down into the stream where I get both feet wet and cold and I fall going up the bank and get all muddy and eventually drag myself up and through the hedge , scratching my cheek and tearing my polo-neck and then trudging across the field through heavy rain and more mud and finally getting to the car and panicking when I ca n't find the car keys before remembering I put them in the button-down back pocket of the jeans for safety instead of the side pocket like I usually do , and then having to put some dead branches under the front wheels because the fucking car 's stuck and finally getting away and home and even in the street light I can see what a mess of the pale upholstery my muddy clothes have made . |
| 29 | I 'm not very good at it , but she makes me try even though I keep burning it . " |
| 30 | Those sessions nearly wrecked my hearing for life , but they made me laugh so much and took up so much of my off-duty that , as time went by , sometimes , just sometimes , I was able to laugh at my one-time passion for Bill . |