Example sentences of "[vb past] me [vb infin] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Tiller suddenly pulled me out and made me stand at the side . |
| 2 | Nearby the sea terns and eider ducks were nesting , the ducks beautifully camouflaged , sitting tight as long as they could , then moving quickly to reveal eggs of a gorgeous sage green looking so warm in their nest of breast feathers that it made me long for the comforts of my sleeping bag . |
| 3 | As he wrote years later in his long unpublished memoirs , ‘ hazard or Providence made me knock on the door of the Hôtel Terminus of the Gare du Nord . ’ |
| 4 | The idea came from the experience of pulling hair out of the bathtub ; ‘ this made me think about the things that are worthless , that we want to get rid of , the embarrassing hidden things like body hair , and the things we value and cultivate — in our culture , for instance , the head of hair is usually the first thing people register when they look at someone , a great deal of energy and money is , therefore , expended on hairdressing and styling . |
| 5 | But it made me think of the voice that sent us to the bar ; he whispered then . |
| 6 | Too much space and too much light in this courtyard : it made me think of the difference between his face and mine . |
| 7 | His talk made me think of the housing estates near Mum 's house , where the ‘ working class ’ would have laughed in Terry 's face — those , that is , who would n't have smacked him round the ear for calling them working class in the first place . |
| 8 | It made me think of the Palace Hotel . |
| 9 | He let me go up and made me sit on the divan and he put on some music and turned out the lights and the moon came through the window . |
| 10 | About three months before I finally , I was husband made me go to the doctor or go to the doctors for me and that 's when I realized it was depression I did n't know anything about it then . |
| 11 | The humbucker carries a clean sound well , although there 's a hint of midrange that made me go for the coil-tap to keep things sounding sweet . |
| 12 | ‘ Oh , they made me go into the army . |
| 13 | The first drive I went on made me wonder about the sanity of grouse . |
| 14 | In one village , suddenly raided by the army at 2am , villagers made me lie on the ground and threw a blanket over me , telling the soldiers I was an old woman , too sick to move . |
| 15 | Some of the love passages made me cry to the astonishment of John who came in with the coals . |
| 16 | You would have thought Magnus 's mother would have been nice to me but I bet Father had already telephoned and told her lies about me , because she made me wait in the hall until Nanny came to collect me in a taxicab . |
| 17 | Something made me linger at the bottom of the grand staircase , near the bust of Unamuno , pretending to read some notices about student societies . |
| 18 | Then he made me look at the windows . |
| 19 | I do n't know what made me look in the bag , but it were n't . |
| 20 | She made me get in the driver 's side and we followed a Volga police car and did a careful legal speed all the way into town . |
| 21 | In those dark days I was that uncomfortable mixture of martyr and guilty inadequate , which made me alternate between the guilt of holding people back and the fury that they did n't offer to stop without being asked . |
| 22 | He watched me deal with the piglets and said he would call me when he needed a vet . ’ |
| 23 | The garage attendant , who almost called in a SWAT team when he saw me arrive that morning , had a few more palpitations when he watched me climb in the back seat and start peeling off my biker 's gear . |
| 24 | People had gone up to a house and been knocking on the door waiting for someone to come because the light had come on and they thought there must be somebody in because they switched the light on when they saw me come up the drive , and these are visitors . |