Example sentences of "[verb] i [vb infin] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had they bothered to look in on that Standing Committee , they would have heard me make it clear that the Government will be working in co-operation with our European Community colleagues to find a way of reducing carbon dioxide emissions effectively . |
| 2 | And , that again , might be me but many of you when you 've heard me say it in a service I 've ended up with my asking at the end of a sermon asking the congregation to smile . |
| 3 | Why have you heard me say it before today Seems strange that they need to throw out those old curb stones , you 'd of imagined they could of used them again , would n't you ? |
| 4 | she would , she was seeing me do it and I respect what she says and I do what I 'm told no she did n't say that |
| 5 | Oh aye yeah they 'd make me buy it . |
| 6 | It 'd make me pack it in and go to Canada if I was younger , but you ca n't leave England , can you ? ’ |
| 7 | I 've been working on it for most of the week , so do n't make me mess it up . |
| 8 | ‘ My parents made me do it . |
| 9 | Well , it was his fault , it was him stealing my money , he made me do it , Officer , I 'm not guilty , M' lud . |
| 10 | ‘ S/he made me do it ! ’ |
| 11 | But he made me do it , I did n't want to do it , but he he he made me do it . |
| 12 | But he made me do it , I did n't want to do it , but he he he made me do it . |
| 13 | This recalls the habitual remark of youngsters admitting to some misdemeanor performed under the influence of another : He made me do it ! , which would be significantly different from He forced me to do it which implies an action one was pushed into by means of force rather than one performed under coercion . |
| 14 | It was 's fault , he made me do it . |
| 15 | ‘ But I began this without any hope whatsoever of winning the one thing I wanted above all others because I thought it was already given , and what I took in compensation merely made me want it more and resent its absence , because I kept loving you more and more . |
| 16 | I hate veg cos , since Donna she said oh just try it , my mother ne never made me eat it like . |
| 17 | As I handed my music to the organist , I shook so badly he bought me a brandy and made me drink it . |
| 18 | It shows signs of spreading , which made me think it must be lead and , therefore , a .22 . |
| 19 | ‘ I just said , it looked to me at first as though it was a woman , then just something made me think it might be a man . ’ |
| 20 | It was n't a sound I ever remembered him having made , but certain things about it made me think it came from Quigley . |
| 21 | She made me repeat it five times . |
| 22 | ‘ William made me sell it . |
| 23 | ‘ That horrible Virginia Colton bought it , or should I say made me buy it ? |
| 24 | He made me put it down and began a long , fast conversation with the soldier . |
| 25 | But you made me fight it , and I did . |
| 26 | She made me see it , and the different evergreens , and the red berries and the dogwood and the sheltered bench and the silvery fish in the little pool … |
| 27 | ‘ You made me squash it , ’ snapped Victoria and pettishly threw it across the room , where it struck the sleeping dog sharply on the flank . |
| 28 | And they told me about Azul , in Jersey , and before that I think it was before that they showed me the forensic photographs of all of them : Bissett skewered on the railings , grotesque and spread and limp ; the blood-smeared vibrator used on the retired judge , Jamieson ; the drained shapeless white body of Persimmon , tied to his grid above a pool of blood , then nothing when there should have been something ; then what was left of Sir Rufus Carter , blackened bones , distorted and bent , the black skull 's jaw hinged down in a blind scream but the flesh all gone very much a dental-records job and it was all black , the nails , the wood and the bones too but it 's their mouths their jaws I remember , their silent screams , hanging slack or jammed open and it gets worse because they show me the fucking video they show me the video they think I made or that I think they think I made but I did n't ; they make me watch it and it 's horrific ; there 's a man and he 's dressed in black or dark blue and he has a gorilla mask on and he keeps sucking on this little bottle he 's carrying which must be helium because it gives him that baby voice disguising his own voice and he has this fat little guy strapped to a chrome seat , his mouth taped , one arm tied down onto the arm of the chair , shirt rolled up and the little guy 's shrieking as hard as he can but it sounds quiet because the noise is having to come down his nose while the man in the gorilla mask looks from the camera to the guy in the seat and holds up this huge fucking syringe like something from a nightmare from an old movie from a horror film and I can feel my heart beating wildly because that 's what this is . |
| 29 | Make me see it , ’ and Grainne turned back . |
| 30 | ‘ Otherwise ’ , she says , ‘ they would n't have let me do it . |