Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] me [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I must admit the ‘ truth ’ did not smack me right between the eyes or make me leap like Archimedes from his bath . |
| 2 | Serve the food properly or let me do it . ’ |
| 3 | or let me lay on my belly |
| 4 | Miss Havisham had never intended to make me rich , or let me marry Estella . |
| 5 | Or let me come underneath . |
| 6 | Or let me die ! |
| 7 | So be it when I shall grow old or let me die . |
| 8 | After a time he began to whisper in a voice that tried now to be soft and gentle , in complete contrast to his alarm calls : ‘ Come on , Minch , you ca n't really be so ill that you ca n't show me your face just for a moment , or let me hear the ruffle of one of your wings . |
| 9 | ‘ Lachlan Cattanach , ’ Farquhar said sternly one day , ‘ will you for God 's sake be either forgetting the lass , or letting me carry her away up the hill for you ? |
| 10 | Somehow that made me tell lies . ’ |
| 11 | Alec wore a navy-blue romper suit — the outfit of a French workman , or indeed that of some little new-wave narcissist at a C. L. & S. screening It was the sight of him in his issued clothing that made me sense just how far he had fallen . |
| 12 | This presented a thought that made me shudder with fright : this awesome , eerie world-apart in the dead of night , unbearably cold , no moon or stars , merely the moan of the mysterious gods beneath the ice … |
| 13 | The first I new was Chris 's sudden , shocked screaming , with an urgency that made me drop what I was doing and run across the room to the open verandah . |
| 14 | I suppose it was the expression on his face that made me scream . ’ |
| 15 | It was a reunion at Bath that made me decide . |
| 16 | Cos it was in with the electric bills , and I did n't want that , and that was one of the advantages that made me decide to have here , cos I knew that the heating was in with the rent . |
| 17 | It was only the thought of this poor baby in me that made me stir at all and get myself to a friend of Ferdinando 's who is in the way of knowing all the business of the street being a wine-merchant and visited by all . |
| 18 | It must have been the totality of the situation that made me feel that heaven was very near and the invisible clearly seen . |
| 19 | ‘ You tied up a little bit towards the end , ’ said Ron , and that made me feel good . |
| 20 | As we stepped out of the plane at Madrid airport the heat hit us like an oven , and that made me feel very good indeed . |
| 21 | ‘ Gosh , that made me feel so much better — being told the whole world is in recession ! ’ |
| 22 | The audience were a comic 's dream and when Dennie came back on stage and whispered ‘ two minutes to count-down ’ I ran off to applause that made me feel like Mike Tyson . |
| 23 | The g was less , and that made me feel at home . |
| 24 | Knowing that made me feel closer to Steffi and the other players . |
| 25 | I immediately backtracked , and he said with a sorrow that made me feel guilty , ‘ When push comes to shove , nobody wants me . ’ |
| 26 | anyhow that made me feel there was no future in Plymouth for that , so this opportunity came , I came and when I got here they did n't carry any sergeants so I would of had to move again if I wanted promotion , which I was n't prepared to do for this , mainly for his education , unfortunately the |
| 27 | Jean-Claude 's use of the word — the way he spat it out as if dirt clung to it — was a blasphemy that made me feel sick . |
| 28 | This was a prospect that made me feel ill . |
| 29 | The thing that made me feel he was more normal was this little bit of dialogue . |
| 30 | Perhaps it was Lanyon 's horror that made me feel like that . |