Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [to-vb] me [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At this moment two people grabbed me to try to make me get up but I could not get up , so they kicked me and stamped all over me from head to toe . |
| 2 | ‘ That 's if nothing happens to make me cry off . ’ |
| 3 | I am a pawn and bishop down after 12 moves , but have only half an eye on the game now , which seems to make me play better , or Sergei play worse , for he has pushed up his queen too far and is having trouble defending it . |
| 4 | ‘ Do you want to let me catch it for you ? in he continued patronisingly . |
| 5 | She wants to make me colour co-ordinated . |
| 6 | Well I might as well , I mean if you want to let me order it now just get this out the way and then you can have more |
| 7 | Yet when I first came , you tried to make me think your position here was untenable . |
| 8 | Now , are you prepared to let me look at your research programme or not ? ’ |
| 9 | ‘ When are you going to let me go , Miguel ? ’ |
| 10 | Are you going to make me play twenty questions ? ’ |
| 11 | But she turned to let me undo it and I got impatient with the damn thing . |
| 12 | Would you like to help me try and take some ? |
| 13 | Alas , I was only just beginning to be visually aware , but to the extent to which I have grown in such awareness over the years I believe it was Basil and Ruth who started to make me look and see . |
| 14 | Some pensioner constituents who come to see me ask why they are penalised and punished . |
| 15 | It is understandable when pensioners who come to see me ask , ’ Who won the war ? |
| 16 | She wanted to see me grow up , it was as simple as that , but it 's those simple things that are sometimes the hardest to accept . ’ |
| 17 | She was the one who refused to let me see my father . ’ |
| 18 | If you have any suspicions , any doubts , you have to let me know about them ; you have to name names . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ You see , Inspector , you have to die because — ’ ‘ Elinor , ’ he could see her white anxious face now , ‘ you have to let me strangle you . |
| 20 | Sir , you have to let me have it . " |
| 21 | ‘ I do n't know anything except I 've done something unforgivable and you have to help me undo it . |
| 22 | The elderly woman opened it , but she must have thought I was a thief or a beggar , because she refused to let me speak to the young ladies . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'll not let you go until you promise to let me see you . ’ |
| 24 | I 've got shares in the company , but no one thinks to let me know when it 's sinking without trace ! ’ |
| 25 | Mr Hart said : ‘ It 's a game we play to help me get ideas to help pay the rent . |
| 26 | So they agreed to let me play and I asked them where they wanted me . |
| 27 | Well , tell him it 's kind of him to agree to let me stay here , but I 'm turning down his invitation . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ I tried to get a £1,000 overdraft from my bank , but they tried to make me take out a lot of loans . |
| 29 | Well , I had this one bought at Christmas and I 've only just got him persuaded to let me bring the board down to do it downstairs cos you , where are we going to put it ? |
| 30 | But they refuse to let me leave the room . |