Example sentences of "[vb pp] me to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nothing would have induced me to part now except an overwhelming sense that the course of action which has been pursued has put the country- and not merely the country , but throughout the world , the principles for which you and I have always stood throughout our political lives-in the greatest peril that has ever overtaken them . |
| 2 | I look like a refugee from a Verdi opera , stranded in the damp gentle valleys of South West England , where no one has yet introduced me to wellington boots or the useful strategy of invisibility . |
| 3 | The noises in my head never stop and have nearly driven me to suicide . |
| 4 | But she 's sworn me to secrecy . |
| 5 | " For what devious purpose have you asked me to dinner if it 's not a truce ? " |
| 6 | Firstly , Martin Coleman from High Wycombe has taken me to task for not including a power on/off switch in the circuit of Fig. 4 ( April ‘ 92 ) . |
| 7 | They could have sent me to prison for two years but that would have been political suicide . ’ |
| 8 | I jumped into the car after my mum , dad and sister had squeezed and kissed me to death and did up my seat belt . |
| 9 | If I had screamed or tried to escape he would have battered me to death . |