Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [vb pp] me [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You know , Lissa , seeing you tonight has made me realise that I 'd hate to lose contact with you again . |
| 2 | ‘ Yes , as I say , the worthy burghers of Oswaldston would not have asked me to spread the artistic products of my maturity before their admiring gaze if it had n't been for the Machin boom . |
| 3 | A few years ago you would not have caught me talking about underground publishing ; I have too many bad memories from the Seventies . |
| 4 | at the moment , and I think I would be some people would not have let me do that , I think , in the past |
| 5 | It would not have surprised me to hear him say that he had advised the Almighty strongly against the Flood and other similar claims , the foolishness of which was self-evident , but not to Him . |
| 6 | I could hear her scolding him for not having contacted her sooner , not having brought me to see her , asking whether I was safe , was someone with me , who was looking after me . |
| 7 | ‘ And , if you 'd given me the chance to finish , you would also have heard me specify ‘ for the general collection ’ . |
| 8 | He would really have liked me to do medicine , but I showed no interest in biology , which seemed to me to be too descriptive and not sufficiently fundamental . |
| 9 | ‘ Once I 'd begun to make love to you , could you really have asked me to stop ? ’ |
| 10 | Right we 'll now see chairman 's remarks which erm since Alan is not here has asked me to read . |
| 11 | But coming here has made me realize how much time has passed since , as a small boy , we used to set off for dinners and functions . |
| 12 | They could even have suspected me had they not found the two sets of footprints in the soft snow right up to the very hedge where Martin was hiding . |
| 13 | Except call in the Bow Street Runners , although your mama would even have had me do that , she was so distraught . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I know Suzanne would n't have wanted me to blame her or be angry either . ’ |
| 15 | And my Grandmother certainly would n't have wanted me going She had er her feet very firmly on the ground . |
| 16 | She would n't have liked me sleeping with him , but if you 're going to sleep with him , you get contraceptives . |
| 17 | I immediately got a lot of media attention — Radio One could n't have made me fail . ’ |
| 18 | You should n't have made me come down here . |
| 19 | ‘ I should have liked to be a nun , except they would n't have let me smoke and I could n't live without cigarettes . |
| 20 | Think what I shall say is , I shall myself quite simply , if it ever gets out I 'll say well look I know full well that you would n't have let me stop at Helena 's you would have objected to it I said , but Andy 's mum and dad , Andy was like pretty bad so we left him there and I said I stopped up to help look after him . |
| 21 | ‘ Otherwise ’ , she says , ‘ they would n't have let me do it . |
| 22 | ‘ Editorial ’ , she notes , ‘ did n't regard it as important , otherwise they would n't have let me do it . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ You would n't have caught me walking the streets in my dancing shoes . ’ |
| 24 | They would n't have got me to come if I had n't had , if I . |
| 25 | Pleased ‘ Being with the English lads again has made me realise just what I have been without . |
| 26 | ‘ If anything had happened to your precious boat , or we 'd both drowned , you 'd never have let me forget — ’ Her voice trailed off as she recognised the absurdity of what she was saying . |
| 27 | My father would never have let me start digging up our graveyard for family pets otherwise , so off they had to go , departing this life in the rather undignified garb of half a badminton shuttlecock . |
| 28 | ‘ If they had been , they 'd never have allowed me to mix with their children . |
| 29 | I know that these things too are real , and yet I know that they too have helped me to find beauty . |