Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] [vb -s] me [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Reason tells me I do right to let you go , yet my heart urges me to hold on to you … ’ |
| 2 | This view could be called cynical , but my experience leads me to believe that in most situations we are preoccupied with ourselves and our own agendas . |
| 3 | My parents are very accepting ; my mum encourages me to dress for comfort rather than fashion . |
| 4 | My mum expects me to take all the responsibilities like feeding him and things but I do n't get to buy his food . |
| 5 | They follow two lines : either my child commands me to do something , and if I do n't , she insists , and eventually has a tantrum ; |
| 6 | One Sikh woman in Southall told me ‘ My husband likes me to use make-up and I myself like it too . |
| 7 | My husband wants me to have anal sex , but I find it revolting and painful . |
| 8 | I am not very good with words I am sorry to say , so that is how my imagination allows me to tell you what you mean to me . |
| 9 | ‘ My wife wants me to take the early retirement , move away from Murmansk . |
| 10 | ‘ My wife wants me to take you to her , madame . |
| 11 | My wife wants me to do these things . |
| 12 | I come home to find my half-brother has commandeered my house for his party , and now my assistant tells me to take a bath . ’ |
| 13 | The letter is brief and unsigned , saying only that my lord wishes me to call on him at the Garden Tower at my earliest convenience . |
| 14 | I do what my instinct tells me to do . |
| 15 | My instinct tells me to leave . |
| 16 | She 's fast , caustic and intelligent , but she also has a vulnerability , easy to spot , even under the ‘ Wicked Witch of Wapping ’ image , and off-stage it is her my instinct tells me to protect and defend . |
| 17 | My own health is suffering and my daughter tells me to stop but I can see it causing a family row . |
| 18 | We used to , we , that 's all the as the village life was , it was it was all very now I know it 's very interesting , my daughter wants me to write a book about it , she says , I said I 'll oh I do n't know mm , write a memoirs mum she said er , you know and I said you know a lot about New Invention , which I do but it 's Willenhall you 're interested in , but it all sort or entails the lot and erm there might be things I 've can I wish I 'd have told you if I can think about them after it 's finished , but it 's erm . |
| 19 | My dad wants me to ask him about VAT on electricity bills . |
| 20 | My chaplain begs me to say more but I sha n't satisfy him ! ] |
| 21 | In my third memory my mother takes me to see Chaplin 's Limelight . |
| 22 | Eight o'clock — my mother wants me to lay the table and get breakfast ready . |
| 23 | My boyfriend likes me to dress well . ’ |
| 24 | So imagine my surprise when , taking for a flight the farmer friend whose generosity allows me to afford to keep an aeroplane , he pointed out a familiar white outline on a lake below . |
| 25 | As for serving sausages — that task is normally in the hands of Stella and Bill Martin , whose absence compels me to step into the breach . ’ |
| 26 | However , our editor asks me to look in at the United States ; so be it . |
| 27 | ‘ In fact , I could swear your image-maker wants me to come across as a free spirit , someone who does n't need the convention of a male escort — and I do n't . |