Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [pers pn] [vb infin] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A couple of months later he did come to the Hammersmith Odeon with Bernie and me to see them play I could seethe relief on his face when he realised they really were a band . |
| 2 | ‘ How can I make you believe me ? ’ |
| 3 | I made them show me their identification … |
| 4 | He 's talking about the time I approached them at Leeds Poly and asked them why their logo featured women 's breasts rather than the species-ist cow 's udders I made them change it to . |
| 5 | The orchestra was not playing it in time , so I made them rehearse it at a slower tempo . |
| 6 | why I made him tell you . |
| 7 | I made him take me on a bit farther at the risk of him thinking I lacked the right sexual tactics . |
| 8 | I made him take me by giving myself to him like a slave . |
| 9 | I made him take me round and round , ten or twelve times . |
| 10 | I made him let me walk in the cellar this morning . |
| 11 | As soon as he came in I made him let me look at his head , and I dabbed some Dettol on it . |
| 12 | I 'll get you so you wo n't even recognise your own body but after we 've done it you 'll be grateful to me that I made you do it and you 'll enjoy it and you 'll get better at it and one day you 'll thank me for doing this to you . |
| 13 | You wanted to abandon it by the side of the road , but I made you push it on , with myself taking short spells of pushing . |
| 14 | ‘ He gets mad when Gary does n't sleep , he says it 's my fault , he says I make him do it — and — ’ She stopped again . |
| 15 | they just want to start it , cos once they start getting through that 's when they start getting wanting decent , wanting to eat more and I mean I make them clean theirs thoroughly , they 're really good at doing them actually as well |
| 16 | ‘ I make you dislike me ? ’ he questioned , and seemed to be so genuinely distressed at that thought that she felt duty-bound to quickly reassure him . |
| 17 | So I let them think it and played the game . ’ |
| 18 | I did n't want to but I was frightened they would think it was true , so I let them do it . |
| 19 | I was jealous and confused , so I let them twist me up — distort everything . |
| 20 | ‘ I said I was subject to them , not that I let them rule me ! ’ |
| 21 | It 'll be harder to get to the villa in some respects because Val and John , Val , Val 's husband 's retiring in July , he suffers with his dreadful headache , and they 're going to spend ninety per cent of their time in Spain , but she did say whenever I want to go , as long as I let them know they 'll come home cos they 're gon na buy a house in Chesterfield and er she said whenever we wan na go , they 'll come back over to their house in Chesterfield , so , we |
| 22 | I find some offences disgust me , Im let the guy know , but then I let them know I want to help them |
| 23 | So I let them bully me into taking them round . |
| 24 | I let him do it , but he did n't do it . |
| 25 | so erm , oh I let him sort it all out |
| 26 | ‘ So , Rosie , like a fool I let him manipulate me into working twice as hard as I imagined I would . |
| 27 | I let him think it was mutual . " |
| 28 | I let him borrow it . |
| 29 | His fingertips travelled until they found my own and , with the lightest returning pressure , I let him know it was all right . |
| 30 | Then , ‘ after a great deal more chit-chat I let him kiss me a tender goodnight on the doorstep with the promise to phone when he could and , gathering up my ermines , swept into the great portal . |