Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] have [verb] me [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your cousin Henry has set off for Alma Ata in ex-Soviet Kazakhstan , hoping to finance himself by selling articles to The Spectator , where he has asked me to use my influence . |
| 2 | The trouble was , although they 'd got me to do it — maybe because they knew it would save them money , or maybe because you ca n't get that kind of work done by your usual process shop — I did n't know how to do colour separations . |
| 3 | My husband did n't like me talking about the theatre although he had encouraged me to do so when we were courting . |
| 4 | Dick cross dresses , confesses he hates women , admits that he once shook Lulu 's hand in 1962 , ‘ If she 'd asked me to marry her , ’ said Dick , smoothing down his silk stockings , ‘ I would have said yes . ’ |
| 5 | If you had asked me to describe one of the Whistler 's victims that 's exactly how I should have seen her . |
| 6 | They were afraid to ta but if they 'd had that if they 'd told me to provide an extra coach for the Manchester as I was suggesting , Dougie would have come out and taken strips off them for You see . |
| 7 | Then there was a strange silence , as if we 'd come to a full stop , as if he 'd expected me to react in some other way . |
| 8 | There were moments when he took on too much ; and although I pursued the matter of our volume only because he had invited me to do so , I soon realized that I was asking more than I should have done , especially as I was uncertain at any moment whether my collaborators saw eye to eye with me about the scope of our project . |
| 9 | because he has chosen me to bring |
| 10 | ‘ Not so averse to the boy as you had led me to believe , eh ? ’ |
| 11 | My mother had taught me that , just as she had taught me to change my underclothes daily and not blow my nose in public . |
| 12 | And the prophecy of Isaiah 61 : 1 , ‘ The Spirit of the Lord is upon me , for he has anointed me to preach the good news to the poor … ’ stands in Luke 's Gospel ( 4:18 ) , as a beacon shedding light over the whole of his ministry . |
| 13 | For the first term I felt guilty I 'd abandoned him even though he 'd told me to come and could stand on his own two feet . |