Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [vb infin] me [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | — Brenda Binge of Burnley calling for a ban on acid house parties ‘ I went to Oxford University , but I 've never let it hold me back . ’ |
| 2 | Who said in 1988 ‘ I went to Oxford , but I 've never let it hold me back . |
| 3 | I was jealous and confused , so I let them twist me up — distort everything . |
| 4 | I can hear Victor asking what I 'd do if I started losing the fight ; let them kick me about while all the time I could stop them ; let them find the gun ? |
| 5 | His mother had made him take me out to see the sights and he was bored and resentful . |
| 6 | Let the man lift me from the car still asleep and wrapped in a tartan blanket , let him lift me and carry me up the stairs to my bed , let him gently say , ‘ we 're here ’ … let him lay me down to sleep . |
| 7 | I let him pick me up at the Marski . |
| 8 | He came to the orphanage just after I went in there , and they let him take me out to tea . |
| 9 | If I did , do you think I would be sitting here letting you rough me up ? |
| 10 | I made him take me on a bit farther at the risk of him thinking I lacked the right sexual tactics . |
| 11 | I made him take me round and round , ten or twelve times . |
| 12 | She did n't have the guts to say wait until the next day , when she saw me ring me up . |
| 13 | Oh I would n't let them drive me out |
| 14 | I would n't let them drive me out would you ? |
| 15 | ‘ Why did you bring me down to watch that ? ’ he said gruffly . |
| 16 | ‘ Why did you pull me out of the protest ? ’ she asked , steely-eyed . |
| 17 | What did you put me down for accent ? |
| 18 | ‘ Why did you freeze me out ? ’ |
| 19 | Why did you ask me up here ? ’ |
| 20 | ‘ How did you find me out here in this back of beyond ? ’ she asked . |
| 21 | ‘ Look , did you call me up here for a particular reason ? |
| 22 | ‘ Why did you follow me up here ? ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Why did you march me out like that ? ’ she managed to whisper eventually . |
| 24 | Do you take me on ? |
| 25 | Dear Harsnet , he wrote , you may keep your door closed and not answer when I ring the bell , you may refuse to answer my letters or return my calls when I leave a message on your answering machine , but sooner or later we are bound to meet and this time I will not let you fob me off with a smile . |
| 26 | He was that pathetic and undernourished I kept on having to stop and let him catch me up . |
| 27 | Or did it pick me up ! |
| 28 | Then why did he ask me out ? |
| 29 | Then why did he ask me out ? |
| 30 | I 'm black and I 've got to be better than the next applicant , but I do n't let it hold me back . |