Example sentences of "[coord] [vb infin] me [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Clare did n't see or hear me coming . |
| 2 | Oh dear , he thought , she 's going to cry and make me look a bastard in front of all the doctors and nurses . |
| 3 | They always do that , the saucy wenches , they like to tease and make me beg for them to come back . |
| 4 | However , later David did come and see me to ask if his group could play on the school steps at the PTA fête which was to be held in the summer , so I suppose that was one of his first public engagements with his group . |
| 5 | Well I do n't yet she 's gon na come round and see me to tell me what sort of job . |
| 6 | Now he says he wants to come and see me working . |
| 7 | ‘ I want people to come and see me playing Billy , not Adrian Boswell , in the same way as they went to watch Michael Crawford , not Frank Spencer . ’ |
| 8 | Whilst I was in Holloway , my probation officer sorted out something to try and stop me getting a prison sentence . |
| 9 | ‘ They both love sport and have no time for show business — except sometimes they like to come and hear me sing . |
| 10 | The fact that he has chosen to go away and leave me means that he does not love me . |
| 11 | Although how we were supposed to be able to afford to rebuild , I had no idea , but whenever I queried anything he would just laugh and tell me to leave it all to him . ’ |
| 12 | Then they would n't find me , and I could plan my life and find a job and a flat and go home in six months ' time having proved I 'm adult and they 'll have to let go and let me do what I absolutely , passionately want to do with my life . |
| 13 | ‘ Please , ’ she asked , genuinely fearful now , it seemed to Hope , who relished the fact , ‘ will you sit down and let me talk to you ? ’ |
| 14 | I waited behind the cart for them to stop and let me pass . |
| 15 | and the trade union movement , the liberation struggle , when you look at it it gives you great hope in terms of human capacity but they will need other kinds of help in order to reconstruct and let me say this because it is important and I do n't say it with any kind of arrogance we have one kind of miracle occurring in South Africa that people ignore and that is that out of the hell of racism we have produced a leadership which is the strongest leadership in the world against racism . |
| 16 | ‘ He got a bit upset when the bowels did n't work and let me know it , ’ he recalls . |
| 17 | In the meantime , I 'd be really grateful if you 'd step aside and let me come on board for a while . ’ |
| 18 | Will you go away and let me have a serious discussion with my nephew without these constant interruptions ? |
| 19 | ‘ I do n't think it would be very wise of you to try and get me sent back to London . ’ |
| 20 | Old Stevenson would go spare if he knew , and I 'm not certain whether he 'd try and get me moved as a danger to junior staff , or you moved as a wicked woman . |
| 21 | But Elsie Birdsall and Lavinia Thwaites kept coming in with all kinds of things to try and get me going — home-made soups , arrowroot , custards — and finally I began to mend a little . |
| 22 | And I , er and I pretended to be incapable and I , and said I would like someone to go and help me do shopping , home health service would have , come along . |
| 23 | ‘ You can come and help me to carry some pictures , George dear , ’ she said to young Curdle , who was skipping about the playground . |
| 24 | Towards the end he could no longer fend for himself and good neighbours used to come and help me get him up out of bed and into a chair . |
| 25 | ‘ Could you come and help me get it out ? ’ |
| 26 | Are you gon na come home and help me dig this pond out then Mark ? |
| 27 | Sorry , yeah I said Mark 's gon na come over and help me dig it . |
| 28 | ‘ It 's all the bloody same to me , so when you 've finished acting like a six-year-old will you come and help me unpack ? ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Sometimes at the weekend Mr Rosenbloom would come and ask me to iron his shirts . |
| 30 | For this is to understand my experience in a certain way , a way that others can challenge and ask me to explain . |