Example sentences of "[verb] me [vb infin] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd make me sleep with the kids , then he 'd make me come back to bed with him , in and out all night . |
| 2 | If you 'll let me , I 'll come racing with you — if you 'll make me part of the team ? ’ she finished a little anxiously . |
| 3 | Mrs Tiller suddenly pulled me out and made me stand at the side . |
| 4 | Nearby the sea terns and eider ducks were nesting , the ducks beautifully camouflaged , sitting tight as long as they could , then moving quickly to reveal eggs of a gorgeous sage green looking so warm in their nest of breast feathers that it made me long for the comforts of my sleeping bag . |
| 5 | There were times when Joanna 's somewhat footslogging performance made me long for the thoroughbred feel of Lisa , but I had an affection for Joanna and she had one advantage over Lisa — her small cuddy where I could cook and sleep , and be independent of the land . |
| 6 | I wanted to go out last week , but he said , ‘ No way , you 're not going out there ’ , and he made me stay in the whole week . |
| 7 | As he wrote years later in his long unpublished memoirs , ‘ hazard or Providence made me knock on the door of the Hôtel Terminus of the Gare du Nord . ’ |
| 8 | The idea came from the experience of pulling hair out of the bathtub ; ‘ this made me think about the things that are worthless , that we want to get rid of , the embarrassing hidden things like body hair , and the things we value and cultivate — in our culture , for instance , the head of hair is usually the first thing people register when they look at someone , a great deal of energy and money is , therefore , expended on hairdressing and styling . |
| 9 | It made me think of the Palace Hotel . |
| 10 | His talk made me think of the housing estates near Mum 's house , where the ‘ working class ’ would have laughed in Terry 's face — those , that is , who would n't have smacked him round the ear for calling them working class in the first place . |
| 11 | Too much space and too much light in this courtyard : it made me think of the difference between his face and mine . |
| 12 | But it made me think of the voice that sent us to the bar ; he whispered then . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | They made me go through the whole thing three times , though I had hardly anything to tell them . |
| 15 | About three months before I finally , I was husband made me go to the doctor or go to the doctors for me and that 's when I realized it was depression I did n't know anything about it then . |
| 16 | The humbucker carries a clean sound well , although there 's a hint of midrange that made me go for the coil-tap to keep things sounding sweet . |
| 17 | ‘ Oh , they made me go into the army . |
| 18 | The first drive I went on made me wonder about the sanity of grouse . |
| 19 | In one village , suddenly raided by the army at 2am , villagers made me lie on the ground and threw a blanket over me , telling the soldiers I was an old woman , too sick to move . |
| 20 | Some of the love passages made me cry to the astonishment of John who came in with the coals . |
| 21 | You would have thought Magnus 's mother would have been nice to me but I bet Father had already telephoned and told her lies about me , because she made me wait in the hall until Nanny came to collect me in a taxicab . |
| 22 | Something made me linger at the bottom of the grand staircase , near the bust of Unamuno , pretending to read some notices about student societies . |
| 23 | Then he made me look at the windows . |
| 24 | I do n't know what made me look in the bag , but it were n't . |
| 25 | She made me get in the driver 's side and we followed a Volga police car and did a careful legal speed all the way into town . |
| 26 | In those dark days I was that uncomfortable mixture of martyr and guilty inadequate , which made me alternate between the guilt of holding people back and the fury that they did n't offer to stop without being asked . |
| 27 | Indeed , my research on images of the gene in popular culture is revealing trends that make me wonder about the results of public participation . |
| 28 | They had let me slip through the net earlier ; they would n't exactly be fans of mine . |
| 29 | Felipe had let me drive around the hacienda but I had never been on a road . ’ |
| 30 | And often , as I sat writing such poems that helped me cling to the last shreds of my many identities , I would suddenly sense that you were indeed approaching . |