Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] me [vb infin] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The big boys tried to make me feel at home by taking me to the greasy spoon for a pie but what did I care for food as the table rang with drug quips and acerbic one-liners about Danielle Dax from Gavin Martin , James Brown and Danny Kelly . |
| 2 | I had a teacher for all of three months tried to make me write with my right hand . |
| 3 | But those who argued with me did not share this opinion , and tried to make me conform to their pattern . |
| 4 | My father was a sergeant in the Army and both parents did their best to try to make me go to school . |
| 5 | ‘ I know that I am dying , ’ he said , ‘ and I am so angry with God for letting it happen , and with my family for refusing to let me work through it . ’ |
| 6 | Now , are you prepared to let me look at your research programme or not ? ’ |
| 7 | Because you 'd like to see me suffer for what you believe I did to Ryan ! |
| 8 | My father has agreed to let me study at the university , so we shall be able to spend a lot of time together . ’ |
| 9 | You 're never going to make me sound like a human being , because people like to think I 'm Dracula 's mother but I did have a rotten time at the start and it 's only just getting better . |
| 10 | Anyone interested in writing a short piece describing their own efforts ( whether in writing or by word of mouth ) is invited to let me know by 1st May . |
| 11 | You 'll have to let me listen to them . |
| 12 | It fulfilled none of my expectations and seemed to be merely trying to make me laugh at the fact that it had left me standing there grasping at nothing . |
| 13 | She was , however , immensely enthusiastic and encouraging , trying to make me think of the enterprise as a holiday as well as a mission with a sad and serious purpose . |
| 14 | If you have any suspicions , any doubts , you have to let me know about them ; you have to name names . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ I suppose you 're planning to make me foam at the mouth and gabble in obsolete tongues . ’ |