Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] me [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had a number of telephone conversations with him , and an interim letter dated 7 January in which he suggested , or asked me to suggest several possible dates . |
| 2 | If anybody has any absolutely yes I 'll be quite happy I mean to me chairman of the trust or with management committee to meet anybody if they feel that they 've got some concern they wish to discuss I 'm quite happy to do that all I can say is that nobody has actually wro wro wrote to me or rang me to say they 'd like to meet to discuss that and I 'm quite happy to do that . |
| 3 | Indeed , it was his example that led me to see beneath the brilliance and beauty of Paris , where the plight of its dispossessed is mirrored in the experience of the very people — artists and intellectuals — who are responsible for its reputation . |
| 4 | I think it was the same drive that led me to invent a series of very complicated games with another school friend , Roger Ferneyhough . |
| 5 | So I suppose it was frustration that led me to break the cardinal rule of any diplomat behind the Iron Curtain in the good old days . |
| 6 | One of the factors that led me to sign up with the DIA was the idea that I might be able to do something for my friend Jerry Levin , who had been taken hostage in Beirut by Hezbollah , but as it happened he was released before I got out there . |
| 7 | But let me make it immediately clear what I mean by this ; what I mean to say is that Miss Kenton 's letter set off a certain chain of ideas to do with professional matters here at Darlington Hall , and I would underline that it was a preoccupation with these very same professional matters that led me to consider anew my employer 's kindly meant suggestion . |
| 8 | ‘ I should rather say it was something he inadvertently let fall that led me to believe there might be a legal case to answer . ’ |
| 9 | who moved out , that led me to want to live in the flats . |
| 10 | So it was the likes of that and these things that got me to know my staff and got my staff to know me . |
| 11 | It was this realization , along with the fact that he was in M. Dupont 's room , presumably addressing this most crucial personage , that caused me to stop my hand from knocking , and continue to listen instead . |
| 12 | But this morning , I must say , I found it quite offensive and it may well have been the urge to demonstrate just how foolish his insinuation had been that caused me to set off up the footpath . |
| 13 | I have nothing against yesterday 's guitar heroes , indeed it was the Iommi article that caused me to buy your magazine again , but whoever it was in your office who opened up a copy of NME and stuck a pin in it should be encouraged to do so again . |
| 14 | Mr. Chairman , ladies and gentlemen , it is n't that I would like to say a word , it is that told me to say a word , and I realise I am starting off in the right way . |
| 15 | In the past I had encountered statements in books and official reports that encouraged me to think of mathematics in a positive way : |
| 16 | My definition of harmful treatment would embrace not just treatment that exposed me to risk without any hope of compensating benefit but treatment of unproved efficacy that diverted me from having other treatments that were of proved value . |
| 17 | More important to me was the need to obey this instinct that warned me to put some distance between us . ’ |
| 18 | It was this that prompted me to scrutinize Greek tragedy and thereby gain the new view of the Hellenic spirit that I have been putting forward . |
| 19 | ‘ I attended various social functions that required me to have a female escort , ’ he said through clenched teeth . |
| 20 | Instead it switched a light on inside my head that enabled me to see things , which at the time , were away beyond my full understanding . |
| 21 | Some of the sound tests were done by a computer and luckily I had access to a computer from my dealer in Bath that enabled me to set the sound up perfectly . |
| 22 | I had planned the journey here to Salisbury with considerable care , avoiding almost entirely the major roads ; the route might have seemed unnecessarily circuitous to some , but then it was one that enabled me to take in a fair number of the sights recommended by Mrs J. Symons in her excellent volumes , and I must say I was well pleased with it . |
| 23 | It was these latter findings , plus the conclusions of the exploratory study given in Part A of this report , that persuaded me to attempt a more wide-ranging review of published literature than one that just focussed on the literature of environmental scanning . |
| 24 | Walsh said : ‘ I was just a nobody and it was only a telephone call from Oldham coach Peter Tunks that persuaded me to apply . |
| 25 | It was the cold that forced me to move . |
| 26 | He 'd remember me , too , because he would have wondered what percentage I had on him that entitled me to come down from her apartment in the early morning . |
| 27 | Did I stay out of loyalty to the priest , the human being , or was there something else that compelled me to remain there , when all the more ‘ Christian ’ elements had long ago fled ? |
| 28 | His catches at Tring on flavoured maggot were extraordinary and led me to follow him . |
| 29 | Later he called me to a meeting of the Executive Council and asked me to say what I thought the principles of the Department should be and how they could be implemented . |
| 30 | Eliot saw the point , and asked me to sit down forthwith and draft a synopsis . |