Example sentences of "[verb] me [vb infin] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wish the old man had lived to see me get the farm back . |
| 2 | Your charms could make me forget the world . |
| 3 | Once the game starts , the adrenalin will make me forget the injury . ’ |
| 4 | Derek was always very supportive of what I was trying to do — helping me build the aviary in his back garden had made him interested in birds too — but I could n't expect him to drop everything and drive me from Tintagel to London . |
| 5 | The Parkinson 's Disease Society has been in touch with me , and I am grateful to its chief executive , Mrs. Mary Baker , both for information and for helping me understand the problems . |
| 6 | She made me sign the paper . ’ |
| 7 | The woman said : ‘ A policeman made me move the car . |
| 8 | I was hungry but had to wait while he fiddled with a saucepan and then made me endure the smell of the meat coming from it . |
| 9 | It also made me realise the risk of skyline walking . |
| 10 | I now thank that friend who first put the direct question to me and made me make the decision . |
| 11 | Yet a combination of things , active marketing by both the gallery and the artist herself , made me make the journey to Watermans . |
| 12 | Every time I visited him he made me polish the dust off the bottle , so it came as a huge relief when we were finally able to open it . |
| 13 | But a desire to be fair , a wish to be absolutely certain , and an understandable reluctance to accuse someone of perfidy who has been a friend of mine for six difficult years made me pull the telephone back to my mouth . |
| 14 | There had been little birdsong in the devastated places I had come from and I think it was the striking on my ear of the calling of a blackbird , so meaningful somehow as it sounded out clearly from the delicious chatter in those trees that made me feel the war was over . |
| 15 | The silence that enclosed me made me feel the world had come to an end , that the trees had not yet been informed but soon would be , and would fall on to the stone and thorn , the heather and the fern , skeletons to be picked over , not by vultures but by time . |
| 16 | ‘ Once Stalin made me dance the Gopak , squat down on my haunches and kick out my heels , ’ writes Khrushchev , an image hard to call up in view of his shape , but — ‘ When Stalin says ‘ Dance ’ , a wise man dances , ’ added the peasant proverb-spinner in his accustomed vein . |
| 17 | Watching Jamila sometimes made me think the world was divided into three sorts of people : those who knew what they wanted to do ; those ( the unhappiest ) who never knew what their purpose in life was ; and those who found out later on . |
| 18 | ‘ If I 'd been bad he made me copy the notices and labels in cases . |
| 19 | Michael made me write the letter — three men are coming to kill you — three of the Six ! |
| 20 | It was pure chance that made me notice the writing on the top file , as I pushed open the window . |
| 21 | ( 148 ) If it were not for an old professor who made me read the classics I would have been stymied . |
| 22 | Lady Augusta xenophobically added : ‘ … a sort of national prejudice made me attribute the grace and dignity of the scene , for what there was of either came from her , to the blood of Kirkpatrick ! ! ! ’ , a reference to Eugénie 's Scottish grandfather |
| 23 | It made me recall the list of supposed super-powers of Ardakkeans . |
| 24 | He took his job very seriously and made me rewrite the book to make it understandable to nonscientists like himself . |
| 25 | One of them sat in the back — again — and made me follow the Escort , but at least this time they were plainclothes men not uniformed , so my street cred did n't suffer . |
| 26 | The workshop session on the importance of the measurement and analysis of data made me understand the purpose of the charts and graphs displayed on office walls at Runcorn Heath . |
| 27 | Hints that merry muses were at work on Woman 's Hour that day made me re-tune the tranny to FM to catch the results . |
| 28 | I thought it would have got better by itself — it was my son who made me call the doctor ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Okay , blue-eyes , ’ I drawled , even though they were green , ‘ be difficult and make me twist the information from you until you scream for my kisses … ’ |
| 30 | erm make me explain the difference between irony and sarcasm . |