Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [to-vb] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's Maui Waui , I got my surfer-ex to send me some . |
| 2 | Jamie shoved one hand down the back of my cords to keep me from falling on my face , and put the other hand on to my forehead , murmuring something . |
| 3 | I think I 'm gon na try and persuade my Mum to let me bring my camera in for the last day of term , I 'm gon na get a bottle of from the shop that 's on . |
| 4 | I have a real weakness for clothes and I like my mum to help me choose them , ’ she said . |
| 5 | We had had our school trial in the concrete playground and I had made the team ; so here I was , complete with black Curtis plimsolls ( I had had to ask my Mum to buy me a pair ) and white ‘ Alf Ramsey ’ shorts . |
| 6 | So I forced my Mum to buy me a guitar — it was just a crappy acoustic , with the strings about an inch away from the frets . ’ |
| 7 | Our house is only a flat , it 's not very long , and from the time it took my sister to leave me , go to the kitchen and tell my mum and bring her back , the baby was in my arms . |
| 8 | I just willed him with all my mind to believe me . |
| 9 | If it should please God for my sins to separate me from my dearest Pamela , you will only resolve not to marry one person . |
| 10 | And I the same for , when Lindsey was a wee girl and I mean a wee girl like , I 'd pick wee things for her I 'd of loved my mummy to buy me . |
| 11 | ‘ I sat patiently waiting for my buddy to join me , ’ Jinky continued . |
| 12 | They pulled me up off the floor with my hands up behind my back and they were walking me out of the chemist with my arms up and my head pushed down and one of them was kicking me in the back of my legs to get me over to the car . |
| 13 | He grabbed the end of the case before it hit him and stepped backwards using my momentum to take me forward and off balance , then he shoved back . |
| 14 | At the end of the afternoon 's events the Head makes an emotional speech praising my athleticism , my versatility , my stamina and my humility as he kneels at my feet to present me with the ‘ School 's Outstanding Sportsperson of the Decade ’ award . |
| 15 | I spoke to him like a mother but he was determined to put an end to her life , so on 11 January 1987 , when Paulette was leaving the home of her friends on the way to her own home , [ the defendant ] stopped her and shot her and then placed a call to my home to inform me of the murder . |
| 16 | A curate at St Luke 's , an older man from the West Indies , almost persuaded my parents to let me go out to Codrington College in the West Indies , but my headmaster was firm against this , expressing the hope that I might get a scholarship to an English university . |
| 17 | That first day at school depressed me , and during the next few days I begged my parents to let me stay at home , which of course was out of the question . |
| 18 | I would not do it again ; it is too dangerous as things are today ; but the night on which I decided this to be the case was the night on which I leaned enough at my classes to decide me about Bertrand Russell , so it was well worth going . |
| 19 | I 'm beginning to put my life together again now and I 'm concentrating on my riding to help me get through . |
| 20 | There was a knock on my door and my mother came into my room to tell me that she was going to work . |
| 21 | I also had a rather childish trust in the police until the day they turned up on my doorstep to question me about a murder . |
| 22 | The nurses turned me on my side and the doctor put a needle into a vein behind my knuckle to make me relax . |
| 23 | Although they did not know the reason for my journey , they were far too sensitive to my feelings to bother me with questions . |
| 24 | I still wanted to see more of the world , and as he was offering to give me double the usual pay , I managed to persuade my wife to let me go . |
| 25 | She was the first girl after my sisters to affect me . |
| 26 | So it was the likes of that and these things that got me to know my staff and got my staff to know me . |
| 27 | Perhaps that was one of the reasons which prompted my father to teach me to read , and so divert me from my inexorable pursuit of my mother . |
| 28 | I was really too ill to travel , but I asked my father to take me home immediately . |
| 29 | It was Ian who persuaded my father to let me go on to Cambridge , which I did a year after Ian . |
| 30 | Now , I did eventually get my father to tell me this ; and , according to him , it was just as he choked the last struggling life out of the dog that he heard another scream , this time from above , and inside the house , and that was the boy they called Paul being born . |