Example sentences of "[verb] me [vb infin] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's got ta make me jump up and down and make me want to knock walls down to secure a deal . ’ |
| 2 | Money made me gu out an rob |
| 3 | Moustaine made me stand up and slapped me across the eyes with his leather gloves . |
| 4 | Cos mum made me laugh tonight but she came in and she said oh you can have a hot cross bun there , I said well I think I 'll have a piece of chocolate cake and she said alright then ! |
| 5 | Julian really made me laugh though cos I he was just fine was n't he ? |
| 6 | It was n't until they made me squat down and then taped my wrists to my ankles and stuck me in a large sack that I accepted that it was n't going to be a truck , but a car-boot move . |
| 7 | This made me study harder than ever . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ The Ukrainian Peel sessions actually made me sit up and take notice . |
| 9 | It made me sit down and think , ‘ I do n't give a damn what they 're saying . |
| 10 | And when the babies were both a ripe four-plus , and she did indeed go off to Peking and left them with me , the ensuing fun made me wonder sometimes whether I was their father , which is no question to put , since the answer should be proffered , I suppose . |
| 11 | She had a fistful of tiny flowers , and made me wait patiently while she described them all , making up her own names when she forgot or had never learned the real ones . |
| 12 | They made me learn almost before I could walk . ’ |
| 13 | The Miss Cardings next door , they would have let me stay there until I got myself sorted out . |
| 14 | He let me go up and made me sit on the divan and he put on some music and turned out the lights and the moon came through the window . |
| 15 | In return for free accommodation and a lot of my attention , they helped me get up and go to bed . |
| 16 | Let me stress again that the shame is not that people have doubts , but that they are ashamed of them . |
| 17 | Let me sit up and watch over Mr Hopkins while you have a rest . |
| 18 | Abu Jaber said that " the Palestinian people must be allowed to exercise their right of self-determination in their ancestral homeland " and added : " Let me speak plainly that Jordan has never been Palestine and will not be so . " |
| 19 | Let me emphasize here that functionalists are happy to accept that many of our mental states are associated with conscious awareness . |
| 20 | Well let me go over and have a look at it and see what they 've got . |
| 21 | To put it into perspective , let me point out that since 1988 the German economy has grown by 10 per cent . |
| 22 | Before purchasers of a faulty building go out and celebrate , let me point out that , while the act penalises those who commit an offence , it does not help those against whom the offence is committed . |
| 23 | Let me point out and another thing to that members are allowed to play as full a part in the decisions of this council . |
| 24 | To start with , and for the record , let me state emphatically that , while I 'm familiar with the name of Claudio Parmiggiani , I am not familiar with work by this artist , never saw his exhibitions in Milan or Bologna either actually or in reproduction , and did my installations with zero knowledge of the cited installation . |
| 25 | Iii case this book should be read by some fundamentalist searching for straws to prop up his prejudices , let me state categorically that all my experience ( such as it is ) has led me to an unqualified acceptance of evolution by natural selection as a sufficient explanation for what I have seen in the fossil record . |
| 26 | ( 64 – ) Let me hear now whether anyone dares call him profligate . |
| 27 | If this sounds a strange gospel coming from a theologian , let me say immediately that there is so much in the Bible about the awfulness , the cruelty and the unfaithfulness of human kind that we may be sometimes justified in wondering why God continues to love us at all . |
| 28 | But let me say here that that was just how it looked to me at the time ; that there was a nice logic to it , that Boy 's beginning matched O 's ending , that Boy 's first night was O's last , or it certainly would have been his last if Boy had not fallen into his arms . |
| 29 | Let me say here that nothing could be further from the truth . |
| 30 | ‘ Whilst you remain here with us — and let me say here and now that there will be a place here for you for as long as you wish — you will share in the life of the household and have all provided . |