Example sentences of "[vb past] me [vb infin] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If for example I am pursuing X in the expectation of enjoying it , but when I get it am disappointed , or seem to enjoy it yet afterwards come to recognize that only habit or a false idea of myself or susceptibility to persuasion made me suppose I was enjoying myself , then I was mistaken in doing Y. Every choice of means , however well argued , proves groundless with the discrediting of the end , yet that I did not have the fun I expected is itself no more than a fact . |
| 2 | So he made me pretend I was in a dead faint . |
| 3 | ‘ You made me miss me stop , you fucker , ’ said the Punk . |
| 4 | My guilty passion made me admire her in everything she said or did . |
| 5 | ‘ My parents made me do it . |
| 6 | Well , it was his fault , it was him stealing my money , he made me do it , Officer , I 'm not guilty , M' lud . |
| 7 | ‘ S/he made me do it ! ’ |
| 8 | But he made me do it , I did n't want to do it , but he he he made me do it . |
| 9 | But he made me do it , I did n't want to do it , but he he he made me do it . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It was 's fault , he made me do it . |
| 12 | It was a Frankie Howerd interview that made me realise I do not even want one . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . |
| 14 | He made me give him Celia 's address , and he wrote to her and said I should not be working and living alone at my age . |
| 15 | ( 141 ) She just about made me carry her upstairs and then she clung to me … |
| 16 | I hate veg cos , since Donna she said oh just try it , my mother ne never made me eat it like . |
| 17 | ‘ Honest , I 'd never seen 'im before , I just bumped into 'im in the fog and it made me sprain me ankle . |
| 18 | His reply made me love him even more , if that were possible : ‘ If you stay , I stay . ’ |
| 19 | So that I ca n't say I had any positive feelings in the first place , but the realisation that everybody else had negative feelings made me love him . |
| 20 | There was every possible opportunity and we discussed it ; he was keen but not importunate , which naturally made me love him more and be more inclined to give him what he was so sweetly not insisting on , but something held me back . |
| 21 | A commercially-produced greetings card , with a colour photograph of a handsome and well-muscled man blindfolded and tied to a pillar , had clumsily printed across it : You made me love you . |
| 22 | ( 128 ) Other women — they only made me love you more . |
| 23 | ‘ It made me love you more , Shelley . ’ |
| 24 | Maria Luisa made me swear I would never tell anyone and I did because she needed to trust someone . |
| 25 | But what made me decide I 'd had enough was when one night about 11pm I was about to climb into bed when the bell rang from the drawing room so I had to slip some clothes on and go and answer it . |
| 26 | It made me feel we should redouble our efforts to help CARE , the relief charity that is getting the food through . |
| 27 | That made me feel I must have done something to deserve this . |
| 28 | He always made me feel I was doing something wrong . |
| 29 | Then I picked up my things at the stationer 's and walked home , ignoring the distressing tugs of the magnetic field , which made me feel I 'd wasted my morning by not doing the thing I 'd set out to do . |
| 30 | Started chucking names around , made me feel I ought to read them . |