Example sentences of "[verb] me [vb infin] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | People have me in a little pocket of their minds in that role [ Ben Braddock ] and they do n't want to see me get out of it . |
| 2 | You ca n't make me go back with you . |
| 3 | My brother could make me cry just by lifting me on to a five-foot-high garden trellis and leaving me there , so I was hardly a miniature Chris Bonnington . |
| 4 | Easy path or not , a climb of over 4,000 feet every Monday morning would certainly make me phone in with a headache . |
| 5 | He 'd make me sleep with the kids , then he 'd make me come back to bed with him , in and out all night . |
| 6 | He might make me come back to London , and I could n't bear it . |
| 7 | How will you make me get out of your way when you know deep down that that 's the last thing you really want me to do ? ’ |
| 8 | This has been pointed out by Lind ( 1983 : 271 ) , who adduces the following examples to show that there is " no correlation between active participation and omission of to " : ( 23 ) … he said briefly , helping me climb in through the rear window . |
| 9 | Of course , there 's the question of my present contract , but I feel sure I can bribe the boss into helping me get out of it without too much hassle . ’ |
| 10 | I waited to see her face tense as if it was an airtight balloon on a stick ; never mind that it made me choke somewhere in my chest . |
| 11 | ‘ He made me dress up in clothes like my mother 's . |
| 12 | Would you believe that the sight of her in that condition made me feel differently about her ? |
| 13 | Knowing that made me feel closer to Steffi and the other players . |
| 14 | Surprisingly , working in Malcolm 's shop made me feel quite at home . |
| 15 | This telephone call made me think back over the years . |
| 16 | I was , moreover , amused by the juxtaposition of names in the Bedford High Street — Blood , Sand , DeAth : the bullring , of course ! — which made me think back to my Special Subject paper in the Finals , on the Spanish Background of English Literature . |
| 17 | It made me sit down with my wife and remember all kinds of things . ’ ’ |
| 18 | He relaxed his death-hold on me and made me sit down with him on a convenient bench . |
| 19 | Stuart came home last night in his usual cheerful mood , gave me a kiss , put his arm round me and made me sit down as if he had something important to say . |
| 20 | You see , it was really my dad that made me go along with the Church , even though he did n't really involve himself . |
| 21 | Then , to me : ‘ We went to Orkney last summer , and she made me crawl in through a ghastly tunnel into some underground charnel-house . |
| 22 | When I started circuit work that periscope , completely forgotten during the flight , made me jump just before touchdown . |
| 23 | He pipped me mum and made me jump out of my bloody skin . |
| 24 | Despite an unhappy ending , ‘ The Disappearance ’ contains a lot of energy which made me come away from the book feeling hopeful and while I learnt more about the characters , I also found I learnt more about myself and my feelings towards family life and friends . |
| 25 | Charles told her about his movements on the Sunday night , concluding , ‘ … so it must have been the arrival of Nigel 's car that made me run out of the place . ’ |
| 26 | Something made me glance over to the long french windows leading to the back verandah , and there she was : Poppy , dressed from head to foot in black . |
| 27 | I was awake last night and suddenly remembered the time you made me rise early to flight the duck . |
| 28 | Looking back on that visit , as I sometimes do , I find it difficult to reconcile the warm , charming and amusing hostess who spared the time to entertain us that day with the latter-day basso profundo screecher of the House of Commons and the earnest , ingratiating gusher of numerous television interviews ( performances which make me dream wistfully of the old saw , ‘ In the ideal society politics should be as unobtrusive as drains ’ ) . |
| 29 | They make me come out in spots . |
| 30 | ‘ It would be marvellous if The Committee were to win the National , ’ Scott said , ‘ for the two owners have been immensely patient and have let me get on with bringing the horse back to his best after he had been off the course for two and a half years . ’ |