Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun] [verb] me [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 I asked the Assistant Commissioner to let me go to Helsinki and he refused .
2 He was annoyed at the bloody woman letting me have .
3 His use of the English language made me respect him .
4 The hon. Gentleman heard me say on numerous occasions when the Environmental Protection Bill was being considered in Committee that it was under strength .
5 I ask the hon. Gentleman to let me continue at this stage .
6 The old lady made me jump when she told me not to stare but to sit down and not be nervous .
7 The bad news is that the good news made me feel so relieved and excited that I ran out to a bar and drank a bunch of big ones .
8 The More shoot let me do just that .
9 Colonel Richardson 's pain is only the first pain to make me feel dreadful ( why , oh why , do women take to guilt like ducks to water ? ) and most people wo n't be as nice as he was .
10 At the moment the only thing making me write this essay is the thought of me being able to vegetate in front of the box tomorrow night and also , if I push my self and write three lines a minute I will be able to go to bed early and ease the strain and trauma of getting up in the morning and trudging off to another dreary day in school .
11 As a final thought , my enjoyment of the longer essays made me regret that we still do not have an Oxford Companion to the Earth Sciences .
12 ‘ Flaming June ’ , people muttered bitterly amid the cascades of rain , and the thought of the poor men who must be waiting to set out across the choppy Channel in their small boats to fight a bloody battle on the other side made me feel cold and sick .
13 And when the babies were both a ripe four-plus , and she did indeed go off to Peking and left them with me , the ensuing fun made me wonder sometimes whether I was their father , which is no question to put , since the answer should be proffered , I suppose .
14 For whose efforts on behalf of the fund I I really do thank them and I 'd like to make a special thanks to Lady Chandler , Lucy stepped into the breach as acting chair about a year ago and since I was elected has done a tremendous amount to help me settle in quickly and I hope effectively .
15 If you think this is a good idea let me know .
16 In his second letter he wrote , ‘ I have never seen a cradle without thinking of a grave ; the sight of a naked woman makes me imagine her skeleton . ’
17 Was this a deliberate campaign to make me feel small ?
18 An Anglo-Catholic priest helped me accept the desert experiences of prayer — no-one had ever told me , after an experience of personal renewal , to expect the stripping and refining that was not a falling from grace but a growth in it .
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